The Winds of War1983

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
Fuhrer, even the supply of artillery shells is totally inadequate.

Adolf Hitler:
Who says so?

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
General Thomas, my chief of economics and armaments.

Adolf Hitler:
Do you know how many artillery shells of all calibers we have in the staging areas? Right this minute?

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
No.

Adolf Hitler:
How many are in the reserve dumps in the west?

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
It's up to my staff to re...

Adolf Hitler:
What the monthly annual production of shells is? Or the projected rise is in production, for the next six months, month by month?

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
Who keeps such figures in his head?

Adolf Hitler:
I DO! The supply is adequate. I tell you so, and I am a field soldier who depended on artillery for four years to protect his life. Check with your staff. If one of those figures is wrong, you can postpone Case Yellow. Otherwise, YOU MARCH! And next time you come to see me, KNOW what you're talking about!

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
If we... if we march, unprepared as we are, defeatism will run rampant. It will destroy the Wehrmacht and the Fatherland. The morale of the army was low even in the Polish campaign against an enemy in collapse...

Adolf Hitler:
You're questioning to me? TO ME? The courage of the German soldier?

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
I am talking facts.

Adolf Hitler:
WHAT FACTS? Back up this monstrous assertion!

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
Well, I...

Adolf Hitler:
In what units was morale low? What action was taken? How many death sentences were handed out for cowardice? Speak up! I will fly to the front and pass the death sentences myself! Name one instance of failure of nerve! One specific instance!

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
I... instances... It was common knowledge.

Adolf Hitler:
COMMON KNOWLEDGE? What IS common knowledge is that Army Headquarters at Zossen CRAWLS with cowards. You opposed me on rearming the Rhineland. You opposed me on the Anschluss with Austria. You opposed me on Czechoslovakia, until the British came crawling to me! You dirtied in your trousers, you heroes of Zossen, at the idea of marching into Poland! Well... have I once been wrong? Have you once been right? ANSWER ME!

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch:
Mein Fuhrer...

Adolf Hitler:
I know your go-slow tactics! I know your Zossen tricks, your Zossen schemes, your Zossen ideas! Tell everyone who signed this insubordinate Zossen rubbish... TO BEWARE! I will ruthlessly crush EVERYBODY, up to the rank of a field marshal who DARES to oppose me! [Hitler turns to face the window, then stands next to his chair] You don't have to understand me. You only have to obey! The German people understand me. I am... Germany.