- Erik Dorf: What we do we do out of necessity.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Stop it! Save those lies for the Jews you've been murdering. Lying to them up until the last moment. Why do you have to strip them naked? Can't you at least in the name of God let them die with some dignity? I've seen your SS louts grinning at the naked women.
- Erik Dorf: They are criminals and enemies and they are sent to the processing plant naked for sanitary reasons.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Jews in the Warsaw ghetto are fighting back. Think of that. Those despised unarmed people in Warsaw, defying the master race. It almost restores one's faith in Divine Providence.
- Erik Dorf: I'm told you're using several hundred Jews as laborers when there are Russians and Poles available.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: What of it?
- Erik Dorf: You're not supposed to. Jews are marked for special handling. We'll send you a Red Army detail - strong backs, dull brains.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: No!
- Erik Dorf: Do you curry favor with enemies of the Reich? The children of those Jewish laborers will rise to destroy Germany.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: I should strangle you as a favor to your father! How many dead will satisfy you? A million? Two million?
- Erik Dorf: We must keep on killing them, don't you see? If we stop, it's an admission of guilt. But if we go on, we prove to the world that we had total dedication to our mission. That what we did were moral and historical necessities. Try to understand that.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: I understand too well. Now get out of here!
- [Scene with Erik Dorf in custody by Americans]
- Cassidy: We've got sworn testimony from 24 witnesses that you helped supervise gassing operations at Auschwitz and other camps and were present when selections and mass killings took place.
- Erik Dorf: I may have been present a few times as Berlin's representative, but I made no decisions. These came from Berlin. The Jews had to be dealt with. Permitted to rise to power again their money and influence would destroy Germany, and that is why we, unwillingly to be sure, why we had to liquidate children. The children... we had to kill the children, lest they... uhm...
- Cassidy: If I made the decisions, Dorf, I'd put a bullet in your head right now.. Since we do things in a democratic way, you'll be tried.
- [last lines]
- Marta Dorf: [reading the notification of Erik's death] Be assured, dear Frau Dorf, that your husband, Major Erik Dorf, died a hero in the service of the Reich. We who are his comrades will honor his memory and keep alive the great tradition he personified. It's unsigned.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: It is also untrue.
- Marta Dorf: Untrue?
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Marta, Erik took his own life. The Americans had him in custody as a war criminal. In all likelihood he would have been executed or given a long term in prison.
- Marta Dorf: You're lying! You always hated Erik.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: No, not always. And I can no longer hate him. I was too involved in his dreadful business myself to pass judgment.
- Peter Dorf - teen: You get out of here! My father was a hero!
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Peter, you must face the truth. You and your mother and Laura...
- Peter Dorf - teen: Shut up!
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Your father was a murderer. He and his colleagues, those strutting men in black uniforms were mechanical killers. Oh, a heroic career - the shooting and gassing and torture of innocents.
- Peter Dorf - teen: Mom, make him stop!
- Marta Dorf: Kurt! Leave us! We never want to see you again. How dare you defame Erik's name! You should be praying for his soul.
- Uncle Kurt Dorf: Somebody else will have to furnish those prayers. I watched and did nothing, and believed the lies. We've got to face up to what we are and what we've done. I won't be silent. Goodbye, Marta. Goodbye, children.
- [Kurt leaves]
- Marta Dorf: Children, we must light a candle to your father.
- Moses Weiss: [the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Resistance has been defeated and the survivors coming out of hiding are lined up against a wall] Aaron take my hand - everybody hold hands!
- Moses Weiss: [In background hear orders of Ready... Aim... Fire given while Moses Weiss prays] Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad!
- [Prof. Pfannenstiel is allowed a look through the peeping-hole of an Auschwitz "delousing shower" in action]
- Pfannensteil: This... this is... like a scene from Dante's Inferno.
- Marta Dorf: [reads from a copy of her husband's orders] "The copses in Babi Yar are to be dug up and burned. Not a trace is to remain. This is of the highest priority."
- Marta Dorf: [brings the next page forward] "The crematoria are obviously not doing their job. We suggest you start a program of outdoor burnings to destroy the bodies. Huge piles of railway ties drenched in gasoline may prove efficient."
- Erik Dorf: Why erase the evidence? Why was it necessary four you to dig out 100,000 copses and burn them in Babi Yar. Why *dismantle* Auschwitz? Would it not be more fitting to let them stand, as monuments to our great service to mankind?
- Heinrich Himmler: Major, you misunderstand me. I...
- Erik Dorf: The Führer Himself said that we were here to complete the work of Christianity, defending Western Culture.
- [being marched to the "special treatment" of "delousing"]
- Levin: It's a hell of a way for a man to die.
- Dr. Josef Weiss: Maybe it's just for delousing.
- Levin: Yea.
- Erik Dorf: We have committed no crimes. We have merely followed the logic of European history. And eminent philosophers and churchmen can be called upon to defend us
- [Obersturmbannführer Höß is giving Dorf and an expert on hygiene, U.of Marburg a tour of Auschwitz]
- Pfannensteil: What's your daily output?
- Rudolf Höß: 12,000, if all the furnaces are going. And when not IG Farben or some other outfit is demanding Jews to work for them.