- Frau Hedy Sauer: I heard what he said.
- Bruno Sauer: Did you see the little rat slipping around? He tried to drag me into something.
- Frau Hedy Sauer: You've cut yourself. He was speaking of George Heisler, wasn't he?
- Bruno Sauer: How do I know?
- Frau Hedy Sauer: Who was he?
- Bruno Sauer: I never saw the fellow before.
- Frau Hedy Sauer: But he seemed to know what you had said to Heisler.
- Bruno Sauer: He might very well have been the Gestapo.
- Frau Hedy Sauer: He might very well have been sent by Heisler! You didn't even try to find out. You're a coward.
- Bruno Sauer: How could I be sure?
- Frau Hedy Sauer: You've been telling yourself for years that someday you would do something. You never really meant it. You've been fooling yourself, excusing your own weakness. Today you had your chance, and you didn't take it.
- Bruno Sauer: Hedy!
- Frau Hedy Sauer: You were afraid!
- Bruno Sauer: Hedy, please, why do you torture me? What's wrong between us?
- Frau Hedy Sauer: What do you think? When I left home to marry you, it was because everything there was repulsive to me. My father, my brothers, their way of living. I think sometimes of the plans you used to have. What's become of them? The things you used to say, the things you planned to do.
- Bruno Sauer: I can't help it. I don't dare to risk anything. My home, my family, you. I'm very much in love with you, Hedy.
- Frau Hedy Sauer: You've chosen the wrong way to keep me. I'd risk all this, all of it. It's no use to me now, because I've lost my respect for you. It's a shame. It shouldn't have happened.
- Leo Hermann: Welcome home.
- Bruno Sauer: Thank you for speaking of your plans in front of me. It's a good feeling.
- Wallau: George Heisler. Before I die, I must tell you this. I tell you there is in man an instinct for good which cannot be destroyed. It isn't dead. Even in this nation of beasts, it still must live somewhere. If in this Germany, among the cruellest people on Earth, you find one man with a spark of good still in him, then there is hope for the human race. Listen to me, George Heisler. There is good in men, deep within their hearts. Unless you believe that, there is no faith to cling to anywhere on Earth. Dear God, let him find it. Guide him. Lead him to the few good men who still remain in Germany. Let him die if he must, but with his faith alive.
- Fuellgrabe: I am going to give myself up to the Gestapo. It is the very, very cleverest thing to do.
- George Heisler: Don't be a fool. They'll kill you.
- Fuellgrabe: What of it? It won't be so bad to have it over with. Do you like your life? What are you struggling to stay alive for? What for? Better be dead and rotting, and not have to see man's inhumanity to man. This is an evil world, Heisler. A stinking, horrible, Godforsaken world.
- Poldi Schlamm: [George thanks Poldi for giving him a passport and sailing instructions] You don't have to thank me. I didn't do much.
- George Heisler: You did enough.
- Poldi Schlamm: You know, yesterday afternoon at the delicatessen where I work, the ants got into the sugar bowl. By the end of the day, the sugar bowl was empty, and the ants had moved all the sugar to the other end of the shop. Each one of them did his own little job. Together, they emptied the whole sugar bowl. See what I mean?
- George Heisler: I see.
- Poldi Schlamm: Well, good luck. And... they can't kill all the ants, can they?
- Bruno Sauer: Come in. You want to see me? What can I do for you?
- [Sauer is at the mirror, shaving with a straight razor]
- Paul Roeder: I bring you the regards of a mutual friend. I wonder if you still remember him. He was with you once on a canoeing excursion.
- [Sauer pauses and looks frightened, then continues shaving]
- Bruno Sauer: I'm afraid I don't understand. Whose regards are you bringing me?
- Paul Roeder: It was more than three years ago. You said to him that if there was ever something big he wanted done, he could count on you.
- Bruno Sauer: I still don't understand at all. I think you must have the wrong address. You'll have to excuse me. I'm afraid your friend put you in touch with the wrong man. I happen to be in a great hurry just now. Hedy! Will you show this man the door, Hedy?
- [He continues shaving, but he cuts himself]
- Bruno Sauer: I came because I had something to tell you.
- Leo Hermann: We haven't seen you for some time. Sit down.
- Bruno Sauer: No, thank you. I'll just tell you, and then I'll go. A man came to see me this morning. I had never seen him before, but what he told me may be something in which you are interested. He said he came with a message from a mutual friend. He didn't name the mutual friend, but I think he was speaking of George Heisler. You all know that Heisler escaped from Westhofen and is hiding somewhere in the city. He needs help. I think that's why he sent the man to me. I couldn't be sure the man was what he said he was, so I sent him away. I think now I may have been mistaken.
- Leo Hermann: What was the messenger's name?
- Bruno Sauer: I don't know. He didn't tell me.
- Leo Hermann: What did he look like?
- Bruno Sauer: Small, slight, sandy-haired and freckled. Clothes - he might have been a factory worker. He wore glasses.
- Franz Marnet: That must be...
- Bruno Sauer: I don't blame you for not being willing to speak in front of me. I'll go now. I've told you all I know.
- Leo Hermann: Wait. Sit down. You've done a great deal for us. Franz, who's the man?
- Franz Marnet: Paul Roeder. It must be Paul Roeder. Little? A wide mouth? A manner like a boy? I'm not sure where he lives, but I know the neighborhood. I'll inquire at the market.
- George Heisler: Well, you seem to have accomplished quite a good deal since I saw you last.
- Paul Roeder: Oh, well. The population of Germany has to be trebled. Don't you listen to the Fuhrer's speeches?
- George Heisler: Yes. But I never heard him say little Paul Roeder had to do it all himself.
- Paul Roeder: It is not so difficult nowadays to have children.
- George Heisler: It never was.
- [first lines]
- Wallau: [narrating] When all the stories have been told - the great stories and the little ones, the tragedies and the melodramas - when all the stories of what happened in Europe have been told, as of course they never can be, the seventh cross will be remembered as the story of a beautiful people who proved there is something in the human soul which sets men above the animals, and beyond them. It happened in Germany in the fall of the year 1936. 1936 - the wars and the aggressions had not yet begun, but the concentration camps were full. The Germans were still purging their nation of rebels, purging their country of the last traces of human decency. One morning, just before dawn, some prisoners escaped from the concentration camp at Westhofen. I was among them; my name is Ernest Wallau.
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