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“A good soldier always finds his food.”

Schenck and the burning of documents is a scene in Downfall which is seldom used in parodies.

In Downfall[]

In the yard of an office building, where archives are being thrown out the windows and burned in piles. Soldiers are moving various objects such as paintings, carpets, and chairs. Ernst-Günther Schenck, wearing a white coat sees the soldiers and his adjutant Max Müller throwing out files. Müller tells him that they're leaving, as Operation Clausewitz has started. Schenck then asks who's going to look after the soldiers and the people. His adjutant frankly said he doesn't know, which Schenck sees as madness.

He walks down the stairs fastening his uniform and walks outside to meet SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann, who oversees the burning. Schenck protests, saying that the food supply will collapse, and the soldiers will take food from the civilians when the fighting will spread all over the city. Tellermann says it's an order from the Führer. Schenck then tells him that while he as a department head answers to the SS and Heinrich Himmler, as a doctor, he is part the Wehrmacht, and they've yet to leave the city. Tellermann says that the professor can stay in Berlin and orders to get him the proper papers. He then departs with his group of soldiers through the parked cars and trucks as Schenck watches.

In Downfall Parodies[]

The scene is sometimes used in parodies where the papers that are being burned usually carry a great amount of importance. In KakashiBallZ's parody Hitler and Fegelein Join Forces To Take On Constantin Films, the place where the papers are burned is the Downfall Parodies Headquarters and the papers are Downfall parody manuscripts. Similarly, Hitler Rants Parodies' The Assassination of Hitler: Episode II, the papers being burned are documents that can undermine the hopes of every person from the Reich who wants to become Führer. In Fegelein: The Lost Tapes' Return of Mama Hitler, the papers are actually the bunker's food reserves, and their destruction is so that Mama Hitler doesn't get to them, which Schenck points out that it's a stupid idea.

Due to the massive amount of papers being burned, sometimes the scene can be used to depict politicians or governments burning important documents, such as this video depicting Hillary Clinton's HQ burning all the emails involved in the email scandal.

The scene was also used in Captain Willenbrock Performs the Ultimate Antic to illustrate the "madness" that was deliberately caused by Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock tearing a hole in the space-time continuum. Meanwhile, Part 1 of The Downfall of Gaia Online used this scene to portray users of Gaia Online who are quitting, with the burning papers standing for the inventories of those users.

Transcript[]

German transcript and English translation
Speaker German English
SCHENCK Was ist denn hier los? What is going on here?
MÜLLER Packen, abhauen. Packing, getting away.
Clausewitz ist ausgegeben. Clausewitz has commenced.
Alle Ministerien und alle Wehrmachtsführungsämter rücken ab aus Berlin. All ministries and all Wehrmacht leadership offices are moving out of Berlin.
SCHENCK Und wer organisiert der Verpflegung der Bevölkerung... And who will organize rationing for the population...
Und der Soldaten, wenn alle weg sind? And the soldiers, when everyone goes away?
MÜLLER Fragen Sie mich etwas leichteres, Professor. Ask me something simpler, Professor.
SCHENCK Aber das ist doch Wahnsinn! But this is total madness!
TELLERMANN Ah, der Herr Professor! Ah, the Professor!
SCHENCK Ich kann nicht zulassen, dass meine Verwaltung evakuiert wird. I cannot allow my administration to be evacuated.
TELLERMANN So, so, Sie können das nicht zulassen. So, so, you cannot allow this to happen.
SCHENCK Die Lebensmittelversorgung von Berlin wird zusammenbrechen! The food supply of Berlin will get exhausted!
TELLERMANN Ein guter Soldat findet immer seine Verpflegung. A good soldier always finds his rations.
SCHENCK Ja, und wenn in der Stadt gekämpft wird, wem nimmt der Soldat die Verpflegung dann weg? Okay, and when they fight in the city, whom does that soldier take their rations from?
Doch wohl der Zivilbevölkerung! Certainly the civilians!
Ich werde das nicht verantworten. I will not be responsible for this.
TELLERMANN Das ist ein Führerbefehl! This is the Führer's order!
SCHENCK Als Amtschef bin ich der SS und Himmler unterstellt. As head of office, I am subordinate to the SS and Himmler.
Aber als Arzt bin ich Angehöriger der Wehrmacht, und die marschiert noch nicht ab. But as a physician, I am a member of the Wehrmacht, and they are not marching out yet.
Ich bitte dies zu beachten. I ask you to pay attention to this.
TELLERMANN Der Professor kann in Berlin bleiben. The Professor can remain in Berlin.
Die entsprechenden Vollmachten sind sofort auszustellen. The relevant powers of attorney are to be issued at once.
Aufsitzen! Get aboard!

Trivia[]

  • According to Schenck himself, the phrase "Ein guter Soldat findet immer seine Verpflegung" (A good soldier always finds his food) was actually credited to Wilhelm Mohnke not Tellermann.

Gallery[]

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Fegelein and Himmler at Hitler's birthday
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Himmler greets Hitler (aka Hitler Wants Himmler Scene)
Scenes in Downfall's timeline
  1. Prologue
  2. Hitler's Secretarial Interview
  3. Battle Scenes (first part - bombing)
  4. Traudl, Gerda and Constanze wake up to artillery fire
  5. Hitler Phone Scene
  6. Eva and Traudl discuss in the kitchen [ext]
  7. Fegelein and Himmler at Hitler's birthday
  8. Schenck and the burning of documents
  9. Himmler greets Hitler (aka Hitler Wants Himmler Scene)
  10. Himmler and Fegelein at the garage (garage)
  11. Hitler walks around the model of Berlin (Germania)
  12. Hitler Youth Artillery Scene
  13. Hitler Planning Scene [diff]
  14. Hitler's Generals Discussing Scene
  15. Hitler congratulates the Hitler Youth
  16. Traudl, Gerda and Constanze talk in bed
  17. Schenck and Müller around a bonfire
  18. Party Scene (beginning)
  19. Hitler and Speer chat on the couch
  20. Party Scene
  21. Battle Scenes (second part - Weidling)
  22. Mohnke calls Schenck
  23. Weidling goes to the Bunker
  24. Schenck in the Hospital
  25. Wilhelm and Dorothee Kranz arguing [ext] [noDl]
  26. Singing Burgdorf Scene [diff]
  27. Peter Kranz's street battle
  28. Fegelein talking to Traudl and Gerda
  29. Original Bunker Scene
  30. After the Original Bunker Scene
  31. Fegelein and Friends
  32. Traudl and Gerda talking in bed
  33. Eva walks Blondi
  34. Hitler Laughing Scene (aka Hitler's Trollface) [ext]
  35. Battle Scenes (third part - Mohnke)
  36. Schenck and Müller in a truck
  37. Schenck enters the shelter [ext]
  38. Mohnke talks to Goebbels
  39. Eva talking on the phone with Fegelein
  40. Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children arrival [noDl]
  41. The Goebbels children sing to Hitler
  42. Schenck and Haase operating [ext]
  43. Hitler instructs how to commit suicide
  44. Eva and Magda write their letters
  45. Hitler stares at his favourite painting
  46. Peter Kranz in the bomb shelter [ext] [noDl]
  47. Battle Scenes (fourth part - Peter Kranz)
  48. Hitler talks about the Battle of Berlin (aka Bunker Scene 2) [ext]
  49. Peter Kranz hides in the artillery crater [noDl]
  50. Keitel, Krebs and others talk [ext]
  51. Hitler talks to Keitel
  52. Battle Scenes (fifth part - well)
  53. Bormann informs Hitler
  54. Speer and Traudl talk
  55. Peter Kranz in the fog [noDl]
  56. Magda, Eva and Bormann talk to Speer
  57. Speer's last conversation with Hitler
  58. Peter returns home [ext] [noDl]
  59. Traudl and the singing Goebbels children [ext] [noDl]
  60. Hitler meets Greim and Reitsch
  61. Hitler Eating Scene
  62. Hitler Explains Scene
  63. Traudl and Eva discuss Fegelein's flee [ext] [noDl]
  64. Hitler, Grawitz and Günsche (Reviews / Informed / Pros and Cons)
  65. Grawitz family's suicide
  66. Högl enters the brothel [noDl]
  67. Fegelein's Arrest Scene
  68. Eva wants Hitler to spare Fegelein
  69. Weidling and Mohnke inform Hitler (Bunker Scene 3, pt1)
  70. Generals discuss and Burgdorf gets angry (Bunker Scene 3, pt2)
  71. Fegelein Execution Scene
  72. Traudl is late to Hitler's dictation [diff] [noDl]
  73. Hitler will scene
  74. Hitler wedding scene [diff]
  75. Goebbels crying scene
  76. Mohnke caught in the artillery fire [noDl]
  77. Mohnke talks to Hitler
  78. Hitler and his generals receive telegram from Keitel (Bunker Scene 4, pt1)
  79. Hitler instructs Günsche (Bunker Scene 4, pt2)
  80. Haase, Flegel and Schenck meet Hitler
  81. The doctors and the drunken people / Bunker Jokes
  82. Soldiers deliver gasoline to the bunker
  83. Blondi is killed
  84. Traudl's last chat with Eva [noDl]
  85. Hitler's last supper
  86. Traudl and Gerda smoke in the generator room [ext] [noDl]
  87. Hitler's Farewell Scene
  88. Magda begs Hitler
  89. Hitler Suicide Scene
  90. Krebs and others walk through the streets of Berlin [noDl]
  91. Krebs meets General Chuikov [diff]
  92. Goebbels Rants Scene
  93. Magda drugs her children
  94. Joseph Goebbels gives a last testament
  95. Goebbels Children Murder Scene
  96. Weidling announces Berlin's surrender [diff]
  97. Krebs and Burgdorf's suicide
  98. Joseph and Magda suicide
  99. Mohnke convinces Schenck to evacuate [ext]
  100. Berlin's breakthrough [diff]
  101. Soviet women in the Bunker
  102. German soldiers gathered in a plaza
  103. Günsche scouts the Soviets [noDl]
  104. Traudl and Peter walk past the Soviets [noDl]
  105. Schenck's conversation with Stehr and Hewel [diff]
  106. Traudl and Peter leave Berlin
  107. Fates of surviving characters scene
  108. Epilogue
ext Scenes only in extended edition, diff Scenes differ between theatrical and extended edition, noDl Scenes without known download link

List is part of the Grand Unified Downfall Scenes Database.

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