Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)

Alec Guinness: Adolf Hitler

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• Adolf Hitler : It's good fortune for the government that the masses don't think. Otherwise, human society as we know it might cease to exist.

• [Hitler has been informed that there will be no Steiner attack] 

  Adolf Hitler : An order of mine has not been executed... that is what we have come to.

  [voice rising] 

  Adolf Hitler : An order of mine has not been executed - you LIED to me! I've been betrayed! Everyone has betrayed me, even the SS! Traitors and cowards, every one of you! You, the cheats of the General Staff!

  General Jodl : I must insist, but there are no grounds on such an accusation!

  Adolf Hitler : You spent YEARS in military academies, and all you've learned is how to hold a knife and fork. But you understand NOTHING!

  [beats his fist on the table] 

  Adolf Hitler : NOTHING... about the job of soldiering! I didn't go to a military academy, but I read Clausewitz and Moltke! I didn't even go to a cadet school, but singlehanded, I conquered Europe and half of Russia! And now you dare to disobey? Cowards! Traitors and cowards!

  [stamps his feet] 

  Adolf Hitler : You'll be the ruin of me, and the ruin of the German people!

• Adolf Hitler : The Russians will be taught to count up to 100 and to read road signs. Nothing more.

• [Hitler is ranting about how he had been betrayed] 

  Adolf Hitler : You will pay for this, all of you, same as all the other traitors. You saw the film I made of the executions? And how General Von Witzleben's trousers fell down when they started hauling him up to a meat hook with piano wire? Well... you will pay for this with your blood. I'll have you hanged! Shot! Carted! I'll... DROWN you in your own blood!

  [now tired and weak, Hitler goes over into a corner and sits down on a bench there] 

  Adolf Hitler : Get out.

• Adolf Hitler : The Germans... they're a nation of whores.

• Adolf Hitler : The gods give their love only to those who demand the impossible.