"[briefing the other pilots] Keep the sun on your back. Don't fire too soon. It just warns your opponents, it has no other effects. The best range for shooting is 50 meters, not more. But remember, our tasks is to bring down aeroplanes, not men. So stop firing when your opponent's falling. Gentlemen, we are sportsmen, not butchers."

"Til Schweiger — Leutnant Werner Voss"

"I only attack if I can win."

"Matthias Schweighöfer — Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen"

"Steffen Schroeder — Oberleutnant Karl Bodenschatz"

"There are so many hospitals now they have to give them numbers. This is No: 76. There's 500 patients. Most of these men will die. Those that don't will never walk again, see again, taste again... love again! No, it's not great to have a hole your head. You're lucky to be still alive. Being born of nobility, you've advantages these men here do not. They don't have choices. It's not a game. This is the lowest we'll ever get. It never gets darker."

"Volker Bruch — Lothar Freiherr von Richthofen"

"[to Käte] When I became a pilot, I truly thought I had see everything from up there. I saw nothing. I was blind before I met you. You opened my eyes. You thought me to see what I didn't want to see. We all choose to fly. Voss, Sternberg, Lehmann, Wolff, Hawker. On whatever side we fought, we all knew the risks we took. I wanted to be the best, I wanted to win and I thought I won. But I can see now, Kate. I have seen that we have turned the world into a damn slaughter house. And I'm already too big a part of it. They're using my photograph, to give hope where there is none. They used my name to feign immortality, whereas the reality is annihilation. You said it yourself, "The men dying out there, they have no choice." I have! I cannot order them into battle. I can perhaps leads them. Help them! Die with them. But I will not betrayed them, nor keep the truth from them by remaining the immortal god's Berlin wants me to be. You... are my greatest victory."

"Axel Prahl — General der Kavallerie Ernst von Hoeppner"

"[over Manfred's grave] I could not come sooner. It's not so easy to cross the line into British territory. Finally a friend of ours help me. He asked me why it was important for me to come here? I told him I love you. Did I ever tell you?"

"Hanno Koffler — Leutnant Lohmann"

"Lena Headey — Nurse Käte Otersdorf"

"Maxim Mehmet — Leutnant Friedrich Sternberg"

"One warrior ruled the sky."

"Tino Mewes — Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff"

"Joseph Fiennes — "Captain" Roy Brown"

"Heroes Rise. Empires Fall. Legends Endure."

"What is more important: satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one..."

"Even he [Gautama Buddha] was allowed a worldly existence until he was 29. But since the age of five I’ve been disciplined to live like Buddha after he renounced the world. Why? How do we know that his enlightenment was not a direct result of his worldly existence too? Apo, where is that freedom promised to me after a strict monastic discipline? Where is the promised satisfaction from our vows of celibacy? “You should not accept my teachings on hearsay unless and until you understand them from your own point of view,” he said once. There are things we must unlearn in order to learn them. And there are things we must own in order to renounce them."

"André Hennicke - SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke"

"Thomas Kretschmann - SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein"

"Götz Otto - Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche"

"April 1945, a nation awaits its..."

"Alexandra Maria Lara - Traudl Junge"

"Ulrich Noethen - Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler"

"Bruno Ganz - Adolf Hitler"

"Corinna Harfouch - Magda Goebbels"

"Juliane Köhler - Eva Braun"

"Heino Ferch - Albert Speer"

"Christian Berkel - Ernst-Günther Schenck"

"[reading] On April 30, 1945, the Führer committed suicide, abandoning everyone who had sworn allegiance to him. True to the order of the Führer, you, German soldiers, were ready to continue the fight for Berlin, although your ammunition was running low and the overall situation made further resistance pointless. I order the immediate cessation of all resistance. Every hour that you continue fighting prolongs the terrible suffering of the civilian population of Berlin and our wounded. In agreement with the high command of the Soviet troops, I urge you to stop fighting immediately. Weidling, former commander of the Berlin Defense Area. [tape recorder clicks off] A glass of water, please. [faints]"

"I feel no sympathy. I repeat: I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!"

"Ulrih Matthes - Joseph Goebbels"

"In a war as such this, there are no civilians."

"[Believing Goering's offer to take power is a coup] The loser, the sponge. A parvenu, a lazy bones! How dare he say I'm incapacitated? Tomorrow, he might declare me dead! [...] The Luftwaffe, what did he turn that into? For that alone, he should be executed! This morphine addict corrupted the country! And now this, he's betraying me — me of all people!"

"I will win in Berlin, or face my downfall."

"Anna Thalbach - Hanna Reitsch"

"[upon discovering that Himmler has been negotiating with the Western Allies behind his back] Out of all people, Himmler? The truest of the true? This is the worst betrayal of all! Goering, of course, he was always corrupt. Speer, a genius, unpredictable artist. All the others, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! But Himmler, no. Has he gone insane? He claimed authority by saying I was sick, or maybe even dead!"

"Hans Steinberg - Karl Koller"

"Thomas Thieme - Martin Bormann"

"Heinrich Schmieder - Oberscharführer Rochus Misch"

"Justus von Dohnányi - Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant Wilhelm Burgdorf"

"Dieter Mann - Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel"

"Gerald Alexander Held - Walther Hewel"

"Igor Romanov - Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl"

"Matthias Habich - Prof. Dr. Werner Hasse"

"Michael Mendl - General Helmuth Weidling"

"Birgit Minichmayr - Gerda Christian"

"Surrender?! Never! This is outrageous! I've conquered Berlin against the Reds several years ago, and will defend the city to the last breath against them! I won't use my final hours as Reich Chancellor to sign a statement of surrender!"

"Christian Redl - Generaloberst Alfred Jodl"