Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

Brendan Coyle: Müller

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• 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.

• Müller : [after the meeting, by the fireplace]  What was the story you were going to tell me?

  Heydrich : Story?

  Müller : Kritzinger.

  Heydrich : Yes, he told me a story about a man he'd known all his life, a boyhood friend. This man hated his father. Loved his mother fiercely. The mother was devoted to him but the father used to beat him, demeaned him, disinherited him. Anyway, this boy grew to manhood and was still in his thirties when the mother died, this mother who had nurtured and protected him. She died. The man stood as they lowered her casket and tried to cry but no tears came. The man's father lived to a very extended old age, withered away and died when the son was in his fifties, I think, and at the father's funeral, much to his son's surprise, he could not control his tears. He was wailing, sobbing. He was apparently inconsolable. Lost, even. That was the story Krtizinger told me.

  Adolf Eichmann : I don't understand.

  Heydrich : No?

  [Eichmann shakes his head] 

  Heydrich : The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. When the mother died, that was a loss, When the father died, the hate had lost his object, then the man's life was empty. Over.

  Adolf Eichmann : Interesting.

  Heydrich : That was Kritzinger's warning.

  Adolf Eichmann : What? That we should not hate the Israelites?

  Heydrich : No, that it should not so fill our lives; that when they are gone we have nothing left to live for. So says the story.

  [Eichmann and Muller make no reply, then Heydrich closes the monologue by unpretentiously saying] 

  Heydrich : I will not miss them.

• Adolf Eichmann : Now, last summer Reichsführer Himmler asked me to visit a camp up in Upper Silesia, called Auschwitz, which is very well isolated, and close to significant rail access. And we are turning that camp into a major center, solid structures (and here's where your Jewish labor comes into play, Herr Neumann, the Jews haul the bricks and they build the buildings themselves). And when the structures are complete, we expect to be able to process 2500... an hour. Not a day, an hour.

  Heydrich : And those numbers look a lot better.

  Luther : 2500 an hour?

  Hofmann : 2500?

  Adolf Eichmann : At 24 hours a day, that is 60,000.

  Kritzinger : 60,000 each day...

  Adolf Eichmann : That's 21,900,000 Jews a year, if ever there were that many.

  Heydrich : And we are also constructing the means of disposal, which will obviously depend upon the process of combustion.

  Adolf Eichmann : Yes, it'll be industrial in nature: large commercial gas-fed ovens, no residue to speak of.

  Müller : 60,000 Jews every day go up in smoke.

  Heydrich : We can achieve that. Imagine.

• 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?

• SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : [referring to Heydrich]  Did you ask him?

  Klopfer : Ask him what?

  SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : Does he have little Jewish blood?

  Klopfer : No. Not yet.

  SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : Inform me when he answers.

  Klopfer : That's what I heard. Grandmother or a grandfather?

  SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : His father. That is the rumor. And if it is true, how happy would he be to tell you?

• SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : Are they underway?

  Adolf Eichmann : Not yet Sir.

  SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : Who is late?

  Dr. Roland Freisler : We are.

  SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : Who is missing?

  Adolf Eichmann : General Heydrich, Sir. But he's on his way.

  Dr. Roland Freisler : He will have his grand entrance.

• Müller : Have you ever seen an animal with two heads? They do not live. You want to see Bormann and Goering fight it out?

• SS Maj.Gen. Heinrich Müller : You have to take me up in that plane of yours sometime.

  Heydrich : Yes, we should do that. Not right after you've eaten.