Holocaust (TV Mini Series)

Part 1: 1935-1940 (1978)

Fritz Weaver: Dr. Josef Weiss

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• Erik Dorf : Doctor, things won't get easier for you.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : How much worse can they get? We're no longer citizens. We have no legal rights. Our property can be confiscated. I can't belong to a hospital. I can't get any drugs. In the name of *humanity*, what else can you do to us?

  Erik Dorf : You mustn't come to me for help.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : No appeal on the basis of past associations?

  Erik Dorf : No appeal. I bear you no personal malice.

  [pauses] 

  Erik Dorf : Leave.

• Lowy : You know? All this picking on the Jews. What did we ever do to them? All that business about killing Christ. That was a long time ago.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : I suspect the Nazis could care less about Christ or His teachings, but then I'm no theologian. I'm just a general practitioner.

• Berta Palitz Weiss : We will survive. This is the country of Beethoven, Schiller, and Mozart.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : Unfortunately, none of them are in office right now.

• Moses Weiss : The Palitzes are dead. The old people took their own lives.

  Dr. Josef Weiss : Good God... That good old man! So proud of being German. And that gentle old lady! They left them nothing, Moses.

  Moses Weiss : I hear that from now on things will improve. They'll gradually let up on the Jews. Eventually they'll open all the jails. You'll see.