2nd most-quoted character in Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003): in 3 of its 9 quotes
Fritz Gerlich He's insane. A complete psychotic. He may be a compelling speaker on stage, but in person I could see into his eyes and what I saw was... terrifying.
Gustav von Kahr And I intend to shut him down.
Fritz Gerlich With all due respect, Commissar Von Kahr, you need to handle him with care.
Gustav von Kahr Don't worry, I will. I know how to deal with Adolf Hitler.
Hitler's just called an emergency meeting at the Reichstag. He wants our approval for something he calls the "Enabling Act", which will turn this country into a police state, with him as absolute ruler.
Fritz Gerlich My God. No matter what he does, he just gets stronger!
I'll bet the Nazis set the fire themselves.
There's something I haven't told you. Once this is out, Röhm will identify me as your source. My job as Röhm's press secretary was just a front. He hired me to get financing outside of Germany.
Financing? For what?
The SA. He agreed to sign a contract with a man in London in exchange for exclusive oil imports to Germany.
The Nazi Party was giving economic incentives to a foreign investor?
Gerlich What happened to Germans for Germany?
Exactly.
Fritz Gerlich My dearest Sophie. I don't know when, or if, I will ever see you again. I don't say this to shock. I say this because I must ask one more thing if you; please live. Urge others to speak out, even when what they have to say is not popular. Tell them to embrace courage as a gift, and pass it onto their children. [a montage ensues of Gerlich and other prisoners being escorted to Dachau Concentration Camp, and various arrests and executions of perceived Nazi opponents during the Night of the Long Knives, before we cut to Gerlich about to be executed in his cell at Dachau] You have always been my hope; the promise of goodness, and truth, and devotion. Knowing that those qualities still survive in this world lets me leave it with a lighter heart. Don't mourn; I've given everything I have to this struggle, and my only option, now, is to give the last, most precious thing. It will mark this moment in time forever, so that people will remember. Yours always, Fritz.
