Heinrich Himmler quotes from The Man in the High Castle

Today marks the beginning of Jahr Null, Year Zero. This will become the beating heart of the Greater Nazi Reich... We will do away with the old. Today, history ends and the future begins!!

[explaining map movements] Chancellor, men, our attack is in three phases. Phase One- U-boat and silo-launched missiles to destroy primary targets. San Diego, San Francisco, Pearl Harbor in the Pacific States. Darwin and Manila, Yokohama, Kamchatka, and Vladivostok in the East.

How long it will take?

On your order, 15 minutes from launch.

And why not Tokyo, field marshal?

[interjects] If we kill their emperor, it would prolong the conflict.

So we spare him? After he murders our Fuehrer?

The Japanese must see their deity surrender and acknowledge the superiority of our Master Race.

[sternly] They will accept that reality without him. [orders briefer as Himmler remains quiet] Destroy Tokyo in Phase One.

[looks at Himmler who nods at him] Yes, Chancellor.

Continue.

Phase Two - our long-range nuclear bombers destroy secondary targets, including Anchorage, Los Angeles, and Sacramento in the west. Osaka, Peking, Delhi, Bangkok, and so on in the east. Time to completion, six hours from launch. Phase Three, a ground and marine invasion to secure and occupy. We expect total capitulation within two weeks.

What kind of retaliation can we expect?

The strongest resistance will be in our satellite states.

Particularly, the Americas, where we expect the Japanese to mount significant defense and counterattacks.

We anticipate Japanese bombers to launch long-range suicide missions. We should expect major attacks as deep as Chicago and New York.

Projected casualties?

The nuclear attack will result in 15 to 16 million dead. Ground invasion will add another two to three million.

And on our side?

The Japanese only have conventional weapons. Casualties will be in the hundreds of thousands.

And mostly Americans, so... acceptable losses.

When can you be ready to launch?

By 1900 tomorrow, Chancellor.

Good, [rises with everyone] Tomorrow night, I will address the Reich from the Volkshalle. During my speech, I will give the attack order. I will secure the Fatherland and the future of the Reich. [everyone makes the stiff-arm salute]

Joe Blake

Just think of the innocent lives. Father, you can't.

I know the casualties will be high, but that may be necessary.

Blake

You can't really believe that.

Did you listen to nothing that I've said??

Blake

Of course I did, but you can't build a better world if there's nothing left of it. [Himmler enters the room with a group of SS soldiers]

[in German] What is this for?

[in German as the soldiers take Heusmann and Blake] Acting Chancellor Heusmann, you are under arrest for high treason and the murder of our Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler.

Blake

[sees John Smith at the door] What the hell's going on?

Your father's a traitor, Joe.

[in German] Take them away!

Reichsmarschall George Lincoln Rockwell

Let's start with Dr. Adler, whom you eulogized following his sudden demise from a heart attack. A man who'd just gotten a clean bill of health from his own cardiologist. So what caused Adler's fatal coronary?

Undetected coronary blockage, I'd assume. You- you tell me, George.

Rockwell

I can't tell you, because Gerry Adler was cremated before a proper postmortem could be performed, per Alice Adler's pleas to anyone who'd listen. And then Alice went suddenly silent, too. She died in a botched burglary, according to the police. But now, [glances at Hoover] ARBI agents have come up with a fascinating conclusion: the burglar - if indeed it was a burglar - who murdered Mrs. Adler was another woman. Meantime, evidence has come to light of Smith's scheme to sneak his ailing son out of the country, and then stage a kidnap plot to spirit Thomas to an Argentinian safe haven. [staring down Smith] It's treason to cover up your son's illness, and treason to use your office to spirit away your sick son. Not to mention assassinating a high-ranking Nazi official, Dr. Adler, and his wife.

Do you have evidence to back up these accusations?

Rockwell

Mein Fuehrer, we have the motive, the means and the proof.

I'm sorry, Reichsmarschall, but I'm afraid you're confused.

Rockwell

[nonplussed] Confused. How?

The charges you've leveled against Oberstgrueppenfuehrer Smith are unfounded. They're mere conjecture.

Rockwell

[glares at Hoover] Why the fuck would you say that? [goes and opens a briefcase he left on a nearby table; only a few crumpled papers are left inside] I don't understand. You showed me all those cables from Buenos Aires. [to Smith] Helen Smith's button, stained with Alice Adler's blood. [slams briefcase on table] Edgar. Where is it all?

Am I to understand there is no evidence to support these claims of treason?

I have no evidence whatsoever, Mein Fuehrer.

It is, in fact, treason, to falsely accuse a senior Party member of such crimes!

Rockwell

Mein Fuehrer-

[In German, to guards] Get him out of here!

Rockwell

Mein Fuehrer-

[shouting furiously in German] Go away! Out of my sight! Out of this country! Immediately!

Rockwell

[as he's manhandled out of the room] Edgar, you set me up. A put-up job?! I will fucking crush you!

To dump his body in the street like that? Savages!

John Smith

There's, um, There's also been a communiqué, sir, demanding that we end the oil embargo, honor our trade agreements, or face military action.

They won't risk a war. We will crush them.

Smith

They do have the bomb, sir. I know Europe is secure, but the risk to the American Reich is real.

They're bluffing. Send them a message.

Smith

Sir?

Tell them we reject their demands categorically.

Smith

Sir.

Three dog tags. The remains of three corpses on the conveyor not four. One, sir, the young woman.

She got through.

It's a limited success, mein Fuhrer.

Progress, nonetheless.

It's more than that, it's a breakthrough.

Ja. Now, we must accelerate the number of tests and expand their scale.

Right. Thank you, mein Fuhrer.

I want 100% success rate. Close enough, at any rate, to begin [excited, points to the tunnel] to march troops through! [everybody applauds]

John, where is your family?

Smith

I have sent them away for a few days, mein Fuhrer. Helen was very tired.

Sends the wrong message when a Reichsmarschall appears at a public ceremony without his family. [enters deck crowded with officials and Hitler Youth/BDM members. returns Nazi salute and turns to view the Statue of Liberty with Smith] I'm particularly sad that your children are not here to witness this today. You will get your house in order. [addresses the youth] Today is for you. The generation born since the end of the war. A pure generation, free from the decrepit ideologies of the past. You are the future. You... are... the Reich. But you must be vigilant. The enemies of the Reich are everywhere. Those who would anchor you to the past must be eliminated to make room for the new. Today, we tear down the old. Here is your Fuhrer's gift to you. A new beginning! Jahr Null! [to Smith as the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony is played] Reichsmarschall, give the order.

Smith

Come in, Major.

Copy, Reichsmarschall. Clear to target. [a flight of aircraft fire missiles at the Statue of Liberty, which collapses into the harbor after a controlled explosion and amidst a fireworks display]

[elated at the collapse] At long last, her light goes out.

With the destruction of this former icon, the American Reich enters a bold new era. In downtown New York, Nazi youths are pouring into the streets to celebrate the destruction of liberty. In solidarity with their Fuhrer, they celebrate the beginning of Jahr Null.

We could not have hoped for a more spectacular start to Jahr Null.

Danke, mein Fuhrer.

But for now, you are being recalled to Berlin.

Is Miss Riefenstahl stepping down from her post?

No. Unfortunately, your high-handed behavior, your flouting all rules and conventions... Did you really believe perversion had no price? [sees Dormer's reaction] That club was raided on my orders. [as two guards come to take her away] You are being sent back to Berlin for a course of mandatory reeducation.

And what will happen to her? [referring to Thelma Harris]

Mrs. Harris' fate is not your concern.

[feels the guards hold her] Is that really necessary?

John, thank you for this evening.

Reichsmarschall John Smith

Let's get that drink next time you're in town. Safe travels.

All I see in Berlin are smiling faces, everywhere I look. But there's no one I can trust.

Smith

You'll always have my loyalty.

I don't want your loyalty, John. [sternfully] I want your devotion. [leaves]

[in German, details animation in map] The conquest of the North American West will unfold in stages. First, the Luftwaffe will disable critical command-and-control infrastructure and carpet-bomb population centers. San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and so on.

Reichsmarschall John Smith

Forgive me, General how much value to the Reich will these cities have if they're reduced to rubble?

[in English] The aerial assault will break the will of the population. Next, our Panzer divisions will cross the border from the Neutral Zone in a blitzkrieg strike. Supported by our Wehrmacht battalions, we will have control of the West Coast within a week.

Smith. You are a skeptic?

Smith

Invading the West is one thing, [to Himmler, nodding respectfully] Mein Fuhrer. Holding it is another.

The BCR are crude savages. They rely on animal instinct.

Smith

That's what the Japanese thought.

We use different methods, Reichsmarschall, and they have never failed to achieve results, as you know.

Smith

Yes.

The question is not whether or how or when, Smith. For that is our destiny. The question is who. Who will lead the conquest of North America? A prize second only to Europa herself. Do you really believe that you deserve it, Smith? Or should I bestow it on someone else? [points] Eichmann, perhaps? Or Goertzmann?

Mein Fuhrer, perhaps this duty can only be entrusted to a member of the German Herrenvolk.

What do you say to that, Smith?

Smith

I disagree.

That is all?

Smith

[stands up] America is a rebel nation, [nods] mein Fuhrer. A German commander might - if you'll forgive me - promote unrest in the military. Only an American can truly control it.

But you do not control America, Smith. Rebellion is rampant, and I have a bullet wound to prove it!

Is the problem that he can't control America? Or is it that he won't?

Smith

What are you insinuating, Eichmann?

He is asking where your true loyalties lie, Smith. And I have been wondering the same thing myself. But tonight, at last, we are all going to learn the truth about John Smith.

[takes a drink] When a man gets to be my age, he needs a son. I thought of you as that son, John. I saw myself in you. If anyone had hurt you, shot you, as those assassins did me, I would have hunted them down and strangled them with my bare hands. But you did nothing to avenge me. Where's the tribute to the man who gave you everything? When did you even visit me when I was sick? Nothing. [Smith is blank] Say something, Smith. If not for yourself, then for your family. Say something in your defense!!

Smith

What can I say, mein Fuhrer? You're... You're right. I never loved you. I never saw you as a, a father. I saw you as a, a petty little tyrant. You're a mediocre man. [sees Himmler coughing at the words and retreats to his oxygen tank] A failed chicken farmer. The very thought that you see yourself in me, it sickens me. [Himmler inhales from the tank, but upon noticing something different, Smith makes him breathe the gas in until he dies. Smith turns off the oxygen tank, which is actually a tank of Zyklon B.]