Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck Quotes in Downfall (2004)

Walter Hewel: Why do you want to live on?

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: And you? Why do you absolutely want to die?

Walter Hewel: You see this?

[shows him a cyanide cap]

Walter Hewel: The Führer personally gave it to me!

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: [bitter] As last honor?

Walter Hewel: ...maybe.

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: [as the SS and Wehrmacht offices are leaving Berlin] I won't allow my staff to be evacuated!

SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: Is that so?

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: The food supply to Berlin will collapse!

SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: A good soldier will always find something to eat.

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: Yes. And when the fighting starts, who will he take food from? Civilians! I won't allow it!

SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: It's the Führer's Orders!

Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: As Department Head, I answer to the SS and Reichsführer Himmler. But as a doctor, I answer to the Wehrmacht and we are still here. Please keep that in mind.

SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann: [to aides] The Professor can stay in Berlin. Please give him an authorized permit!