“I've lived a quiet life. The Germans have not lived quiet lives. We must learn from them how to become gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, dynamite, poison!”
Paul Muni - Eric Toresen

“After the war, we had very bad years in Germany. We got poorer and poorer. Every day retired officers or schoolteachers were caught shoplifting.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“We read in the newspapers that the after-war years were bad everywhere, that crime was increasing and that honest citizens were having a hard job to put the gangsters in jail. Well, in Germany the gangsters finally succeeded in putting the honest citizens in jail.”
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers. He cannot, like Hitler, make them feel like that.”

J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe

“- Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
- Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
- Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.”
Mady Christians - Manya Lodge
Patricia Collinge - Helen Stacey