Hitler's Madman (1943)

John Carradine: Reinhardt Heydrich

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• Professor : My lecture today is on the phenominom of pressure as conceived by the philosophers of the seventeenth century.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : Very interesting, please proceed.

  Professor : One might argue, that sufficient pressure would be able to destroy its own counter pressure. But, this is not necessarily true. Force and violence destroy only bodies, never the essence of the opposing force.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : I presume you refer to metaphysical matters not to political events?

  Professor : Philosophy covers the entire field of life.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : Advise, Professor of Philosophy, to confine himself to the realms of the abstract.

• Heinrich Himmler : A soldier dies with courage, Heydrich.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : A true Nazi, eh? I would like to see how you and your Führer would act if your insides were shot out. Why can't I get morphine? Its getting dark. I want to live!

  Heinrich Himmler : You are dying for the Führer, Heydrich.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : I don't want to die. I'm not going to die for the Führer or anyone else. I want to live. You'll face death one of these days too, Himmler - you and your Führer. All of you will face death. All of you. There's another thing out there. Come, closer. You'll lose. The Russians will win. The Poles, the British, the Czech, the Americans will win. You'll be the only ones to lose. And why? Why will they win? I'll tell you. You are too weak, that's it. Everyday I had them shoot thirty. It should have been three hundred, Himmler. And three thousand. Day for day, three - I should have done away with them all. All of them. All of them. Kill them if you want to be safe. Everyday. All of them. Shoot them. Shoot them. Kill them.

• Reinhardt Heydrich : I'm absent minded today. I forgot the ladies entirely. Are you afraid little lady?

  Clara Janek : No. I'm not afraid.

  Reinhardt Heydrich : All right. Now, surely, I'm not sending ladies to a Concentration Camp. They will go to the Russian front instead of the men. But, of course, dig trenches? No, lovely one! I would never think of that. A pretty girl like you could serve so much better entertaining our courageous German soldiers.

  Clara Janek : No!