Awesome / Charité at War

• Nurse Christel wants to report a boy because he's had an anti-Nazi pamphlet of the "White Rose" resistance group. The boy may just be old enough to read, but he certainly has no idea just what he has picked up there, but Christel insists it's still subversive material. Martin takes the pamphlet away from her and tears it to shreds. When Christel says she'll report that and state Otto as a witness, Otto quickly distracts her by asking her out.
• Nazi official Manfred Roeder comes to Charité and demands to get to interrogate Dohnanyi, an imprisoned resistance fighter who has been brought in with an apoplexy. In the process, Roeder yells at everyone, is extremely rude to Martin and Otto and, when Professor Jung politely asks for his ID, insults him — enter Sauerbruch, who can yell even louder and screams the ever-loving crap out of Roeder and sends him out with his tail between his legs. Jung, Otto, Martin, and even Nurse Christel watch the entire display and have trouble not to burst out laughing.
• Charité's Christmas celebration. The entire staff is to sing a Christmas song together which has been given new lyrics by the regime. So, now the staunch Nazis sing the Hitler-centric version of the song — and Sauerbruch, Margot, and Miss Fritsch sing the traditional version with Christian-related lyrics, soon joined by Otto and Martin who are happy to express their resistance in this way. Halfway through the song, Nurse Christel starts getting louder and more desperate, trying to drown out the voices of those who sing the traditional lyrics, to no avail. Anni on the other hand has started out singing with the system-conformists, but then falls completely silent.
• Kolbe dispelling his colleague's suspicion that he could be an Allied spy (which he is). It's not entirely clear if the numbers and letters were actually a game of chess he wrote down in his notebook as a deliberate false track or really encrypted information he gathered as a spy, but in either case, that awkward little guy who doesn't appear very gifted in lying absolutely sold it.
• A major moment of Awesome for Anni, as she goes to de Crinis and gets him to drop the homosexuality charges against Martin. After all the time she worshipped her doctorate advisor and danced to his tune, Anni shows up at his office, dressed nicely and with a pretty hairdo, all "Heil Hitler" and sweet-talking de Crinis — and plays him like a fiddle. That's a man who boasts of being able to spot a lie immediately, no less, and Anni does not only take advantage of his affection for her, she also tells him with a magnificently blasé self-assurance that she, as Otto's sister and Martin's neighbor, knows for a fact that both of them are incorrigible womanizers. And it's a complete success.
• After Stauffenberg's assassination attempt on Hitler has failed, Sauerbruch is accused of having worked with the conspirators, but he manages to talk both himself and his son out of the Nazis' claws.
• Nurse Christel getting, at long last, some sweet, sweet comeuppance. She's outraged to find Martin out of prison and back at work, and complains to Margot Sauerbruch that she doesn't want to work with a "sex offender". Margot coolly replies that she can't see a sex offender anywhere around, and that Christel is free to get transferred to the front if she doesn't want to work at the hospital anymore. Grudgingly, Christel goes back to work, then notices that Martin is wearing Otto's talisman necklace and grabs for it, asking where he got that — and Martin clasps her throat and tells her to keep her damn mouth shut, otherwise he'll strangle her.
  • Also when Martin admits that Otto is hiding in the attic and he's been helping him, before he asks Sauerbruch if he can ask him to join them in the bunker for his safety. As the battle for Berlin is in its death throes, with the Russians the victors and the staff exhausted, Sauerbruch agrees instantly, insisting a Doctor is always welcome at Charité no matter what. Christel is clearly shocked and furious when Martin leaves, and before she can comment, Sauerbruch tells her, with obvious satisfaction, that it would seem she now has no one left to report Otto's desertion or their relationship to.
• Anni being openly defiant when her husband asks why their daughter hasn't reached her destination when he gave her up to the eugenics programme.
  Artur: Where is she? I'll be made responsible if a child disappears!
  Anni: Oh, yes? So many children disappear.
  ——
  Artur: She'd be safer there now than she is here! I'm not a monster!
  Anni: Ah, right, my bad! You only kill other people's children!
• Christel leads a group of fanatic Volkssturm Child Soldiers into the hospital (most of which appear to be younger than 15) so they can use it as a military base, disregarding that it's still a neutral zone. Martin tricks them to follow him to the basement and just locks them up, not willing to let them go before they have thrown their weapons out of the window.
  Martin: *to Christel, who's going into hysterics* Their mothers will thank me.
• Artur, despite all that can be said about him, leaves the basement during the last hours of the battle, risking his life to get them all a load of desperately needed clear water.
• Martin carrying an injured Otto down to the OR. For the record, Martin's right leg is a prosthesis, Otto is about as tall and heavy as he is, Martin has been working all day to exhaustion, and he has to carry him down a ladder, through a half-demolished staircase and back to the bunker through a bombed house. And he manages.
• In the end a higher ranking Russian restrains one of his subordinate, when the man wants to hurt or even kill Sauerbruch for daring to perform surgery on Martin, who is in life-threatening danger at this moment, before a Russian soldier, who has more time.