Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

Ian McNeice: Klopfer

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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.

• 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!

• Undersecretary Martin Luther : Sir, this is Neumann of the Four Year Plan, a close associate of Reichsmarschall Goering. Neumann, I introduce Dr. Klopfer, a close associate of the Brown Eminence.

  Erich Neumann : Brown... excuse me?

  Klopfer : I represent Martin Bormann, the Party Chairman of the Thousand Year Plan.

• Klopfer : And how is it you speak Hebrew? Or is it only Yiddish you speak?

  Adolf Eichmann : Well, I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words; Jewish, Yiddish, not enough to speak. So I went in search of a rabbi - rabbi means "teacher", I came to find out - Look, may I tell you the Lord's honest truth? So many of our highest-ranking officers, whose responsibility it is to deal with the Israelites, they make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head - I went to visit this rabbi - old man, long beard - in his one-room flat. And when he saw me, his eyes grew as large as hen's eggs. I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed, and he said that he would, but that he would charge me - of course. So, I applied to my commander for funds, and I was denied; now, I've run into this opposition all my life, so I paid my own money - very little, not much. And he taught me some vocabulary, letters of the alphabet. But looking back, I realize it was poor judgment on my part, because I could have so easily had the old man arrested - put into prison - and demanded lessons from him, in his cell, free of charge. One day, he was rounded up and shipped off because he had gone out unadvisedly. And I thought "That's so stupid... why are they so stupid?" Didn't he know that I would have protected him? At least until my lessons were complete.

• Heydrich : Emigration. The policy that will take the place of emigration, and we have collected enough practical experience to do it well, is evacuation.

  Hofmann : Which differs from emigration in what way? Evacuation to where?

  Heydrich : Let us postpone that question for a while.

  Klopfer : To hell, one hopes.

  Lange : Many already have.

  Undersecretary Martin Luther : Do they even have a hell?

  Heydrich : They do now. We provide it.

• Klopfer : I take it that you do not get good food up in Krakow?

  Dr. Joseph Bühler : If all of Berlin eats like you, it's no wonder we have shortages.

• 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] 

• 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?

• Undersecretary Martin Luther : Do you expect the men serenely to submit to being sterilized?

  Klopfer : Why not? They've already had their cocks clipped.

• Klopfer : [leaving after the meeting]  You certainly know how to throw a party.

  Adolf Eichmann : Thank you.

  Klopfer : Shalom!