Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

Colin Firth: Stuckart

Quotes 

• Müller : Perhaps the judge has a special love for them?

  Klopfer : [mutters appreciatively]  Yes, yes a special love for them... very good...

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : For whom? For Jews? Wonderful, you don't have my credentials. Forgive me, from your uniform I can infer that you're shallow, ignorant and naive about the Jews. Your line, what the party rants on about is how inferior they are, some-some-some sub-species, and I keep saying how wrong that is! They are sublimely clever. And they are intelligent as well. My indictments to that race are stronger and heavier because they are real, not uneducated ideology. They are arrogant and self-obsessed and calculating and reject the Christ and I will not have them pollute German blood!

  General Reinhard Heydrich : [tries to calm Stuckart down]  Please, Doctor...

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : He doesn't understand! And neither do his people. Deal with the reality of the Jew and the world will applaud us. Treat them as imaginary phantoms, evil in human fantasies, and the world would have justified contempt for us! To kill them casually without regard for the law martyrs them, which will be their victory! Sterilization recognizes them as a part of our species but prevents them from being a part of our race. They'll disappear soon enough. And we will have acted in defense of our race and of our species and by the law! This fellow mentioned the law for the protection of German blood, *I wrote that law*! When you have my credentials then we'll talk about who loves the Jews and who hates them. Pigs don't know how to hate. I know, too, that when it comes to the half-mixed, that to kill them abandons that half of their blood which is German.

  Klopfer : I'll remember you.

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : You should. I'm very well known.

• Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : Can I - can I just say one word more? In the obligation, in the obligation to maintain a lawful society...

  Klopfer : Another lecture. Another lecture!

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : ...what we would be saying to those... Where we depart from the legal letter in deporting a Jew married...

  Klopfer : Good, deport them! Deport them!

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : ...to a German, a new law will be required...

  Klopfer : Write it! Why don't you write it?

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : Consider. Consider: the Jews are taken away. The German spouses will presumably inherit the property of the Jewish spouses, go to court, their death certificates will be applied for and what happens to your secret killings then? No matter what you call them? The secret is out, dear friends! Perhaps not inheritance; perhaps divorce, freedom to remarry. So a requisite divorce mechanism dealing with these marriages to be terminated becomes the Reich's responsibility to its German citizens.

  Klopfer : Fuck.

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : I AM SPEAKING!

• Heydrich : Nietzsche advises the secret to enjoying life is to live dangerously.

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : He enjoyed it so much he went mad.

• Heydrich : [the meeting is near a close, and Heydrich is listening to everyone's decision]  Do we have any disputes left to face here either with my authority or with that we have agreed? General?

  Müller : Let us astonish Charles Darwin.

  Klopfer : [raises glass]  I second the motion. It is our most important war.

  Heydrich : Sir?

  Kritzinger : We are discussing the inevitable and bringing it about in the most practical way under one command. I have no dispute with that, I understand the realities. And indeed, count on my support.

  Hofmann : With the understanding that consideration will be given to my proposal, yes. Proceed.

  Dr. Georg Leibbrandt : I defer to the SS.

  Dr. Alfred Meyer : If you are to do it, then force-feed it. Speed it along. Our situation, such as in Warsaw, is difficult, edging towards disastrous. Thank you.

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : ...Oh, yes. What can I say? My enthusiasm is boundless.

  Undersecretary Martin Luther : Obviously.

  Heydrich : Sorry?

  Undersecretary Martin Luther : I trust my enthusiasm is clear, is apparent. Yes!

  Heydrich : Neumann?

  Erich Neumann : I would like to know that adequate labor will still be available...

  Heydrich : On a case-by-case basis. Major Lange?

• Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : The law of the Reich...

  Klopfer : We made the law we need. Why am I telling you this? How many lawyers are in this room? Raise your hand.

  [Almost half of those present raise their hands. Klopfer raises his own and makes Kritzinger do the same] 

  Klopfer : Oh, Jesus Christ! It's worse than I thought.

  [Chuckle around the table] 

• Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : I find the plan unworkable. I find the plan personally insulting. I have given years to codifying the laws regarding interracial marriage. Now I'm presented with this clumsy, forgive me, unworkable structure. My work, these laws, any legal code worthy of the name, restricts the enforcers of law as well as its subjects. There are some things you cannot do.

  Heydrich : As you see it.

  Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : What I see is all I have to contribute here.

• Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart : Ah, Kritzinger. I'm glad you're here.

  Dr. Wilhelm Kritzinger : Sheer morbid curiosity.