- [first lines]
- Stephan Lux: [interrupting a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, Geneve, 1936] My name is Stephan Lux. I am Jewish. The Jews are being persecuted in Germany and the world doesn't care.
- [He draws a pistol]
- Stephan Lux: I see no other way to reach people's hearts.
- [He shoots himself]
- [Riccardo has translated the Pope's Christmas-address, the radio-broadcast of which they - secretly - listened to]
- Kurt Gerstein: That's all?
- Riccardo Fontana: That's all.
- Kurt Gerstein: He... he... he, he never... *even pronounced* the word "Jew" or "concentration camp!"
- Karl: In these heroic times, have you acquired some title or some kind of rank?
- Kurt Gerstein: Lieutenant of the Waffen-SS.
- Karl: Go to the SS Transportation Department. Thanks for your visit.
- [Gerstein sees truckloads of corpses being dumped into a ditch in the forest he is driven by]
- Driver: The crematoriums are overworked.
- Baron Von Otter: I can obtain passports for you and your family.
- Kurt Gerstein: No. No. I refuse to leave my country. I must testify about all this.
- Ambassador Taylor: Washington is amazed the Pope's Christmas address was so bland. The lack on any condemnation of the Nazi atrocities threatens the moral leadership of the Holy Father and faith in the church itself.
- Count Fontana: You cannot condemn Hitler without condemning Stalin, who's your ally.
- closing title card: His report contributed to convincing people of the Holocaust.
- closing title card: 20 years later, Gerstein was vindicated.
- [Gerstein has been shown what, besides disinfecting barracks, Zyklon B is used for]
- Doctor: There are not ten people alive who have seen what you just saw.
- Kurt Gerstein: It's unimaginable. The Jews aren't being expelled, as we thought. They're exterminated. I just got back from the camps in Poland. They're *exterminating* Jews. The strongest are pressed into forced labor. The others, the women and children... are gassed. I saw it with my own eyes.
- Soldier: Captain, Gerstein was found hanged in his cell.
- Captain: Was he hanged or did he hang himself?
- Soldier: I don't know.
- Captain: I want a written report.
- [last lines]
- Monsignore Hudal: [welcoming the Doctor in the Vatican] Your friends mentioned the U.S. to me. But they are only taking specialists in chemistry, aviation, physics, biology
- Doctor: Doctor: I'm a doctor, just a physician.
- Monsignore Hudal: Then it'll have to be Argentina. There's a boat in six days. In the meantime, I'll put you up here.
- Doctor: [pointing at the gardens] It' marvelous here.