Nightmare Fuel / Charité at War

• Professor de Crinis denounces Paul Lohmann, a traumatized soldier who lost his leg fighting for his country, for no discernible reason except wanting to make an example of him — he can't prove that Lohmann crippled himself, but he still has him charged and executed for "undermining the military force".
• Artur never once bats an eye when he's given a bunch of disabled children for the tests of his tuberculosis vaccine. He utters vague pity when the children start dying, but never remorse.
• The methodical mass murders of diseased and disabled people by order of the state. The sheer concept horrifies Sauerbruch, a man who's fighting tooth and nail for his patients, too much to consider it a truth.
• Sauerbruch's realization that Artur is afraid of keeping his daughter on the pediatric ward. Because of Karin being at risk of turning out to be disabled, he doesn't want her near his boss, whom he won't trust with the life of his child — he genuinely has reason to believe Bessau will report Karin and sign her up for deportation, and Artur of all people knows what "substandard" children are used for.
  • Then Bessau learns of Karin's disability, and Artur's fears turn out to be entirely justified. Bessau's comment on Artur's child? "Make new ones."
• Martin's story. He had a boyfriend a few years earlier, and they were denounced to the homosexuality department. Martin got away only because he was the younger of them, while the other man was sent to a concentration camp, and Martin had to know that his life and freedom were paid with that of his boyfriend. Ever since, he has been terrified to get too close to someone, having to fear not only the concentration camp for himself but also to lose another love like that.
• Anni's Heel Realization. Somewhere between discovering Karin's affliction and finding Artur's research files that report the death of several disabled children during his vaccine tests, she has understood just what the eugenics and euthanasia propaganda means, which fate might be awaiting her baby — and that she has condoned countless other children suffering the same fate. Late in the evening, she sings a lullaby to Karin, the lyrics of which translate to "things we can laugh about carelessly because our own eyes do not see them", and the look in her eyes makes clear what she thinks of herself now.
• A woman who was digged out of a bombed house and cannot find her son has fallen into a stupor, and de Crinis declares her a lost case and wants her to be sent to Bernburg, where patients are not so much treated as gassed. She's "unworthy life" just because she's shocked after a traumatic experience and having lost her child.
• When it becomes clear that Karin will wind up permanently disabled and Artur has said they'll have to decide whether or not they want to keep her, there's a moment when Anni considers suffocating Karin so as not to give her into the euthanasia programme. Sure, she breaks after a moment and decides to keep her at every cost, but the moment Anni's eyes go blank and she puts her hand on her baby's face is absolutely terrifying.
  • And then Nurse Käthe goes to the head of the pediatric ward and reports Karin as a disabled child.
• The woman who's willing to give her Down Syndrome daughter away to be experimented on or euthanized, because, as she says, "it's not a worthy life".
• After Otto has turned her down, an offended and jealous Christel denounces him and Martin to the department for the persecution of homosexuals. Martin is arrested, Otto interrogated — he desperately denies the accusation, knowing that Martin as a "repeat offender" is likely to pay with his life.
  • Worse still, he is pressured to "confess" that Martin corrupted and seduced him, to betray his lover so he can save himself.
  • Later, de Crinis comes to interrogate Martin and offers him the same — he should "have the decency" to confess to his crime so he can "save [his] little catamite" since de Crinis has already decided that Martin is guilty either way. He also offers him a choice: Concentration camp or castration. Martin doesn't say a word, having shut down completely.
• Anni finds the name of her daughter on a deportation list to a hospital where she knows disabled children are used as test subjects for medicaments, with no consideration for their lives. The list is signed by her husband. When Otto finds her and Karin in the attic later, a devastated Anni admits that she can't trust Artur with the life of his child any longer.
  • The empty pediatric ward after the listed children have been deported against Anni's orders. And Nurse Käthe, who has conspired with Artur to bring away Karin behind Anni's back, has the gall to act like she's innocent of any wrong.
• The last episode altogether is pretty horrendous. The war is in its very last days, the greater part of Berlin has been shot to shreds, the people are going insane with fear of the inevitable victory of the enemy (or, in case of the staunch Nazis, because of their worldview breaking into pieces), and the doctors are fighting a lost battle — trying to keep the hospital running because they must; there are so many injured people, but no clean bandages or syringes, no painkillers, no medicaments, in the end not even water. And they have to wait for the definitive fall, because there is no way out.
  • The little boy that's brought to the hospital covered in second degree burns, screeching on top of his lungs and unable to stop. He barely sounds human anymore.
    • Said boy has, as the father tells, lost his mother and newborn sister to the concentration camp — all of two weeks ago, when the writing was long on the wall.
      Artur: Even now? *Beat* That's insanity.
      Jewish Father: It was always insanity.
  • Magda Goebbels asks de Crinis for cyanide to poison herself and her children (aged 4 - 12 years) before they get captured. He's horrified.
  • And even now, a Nazi official comes up with a new atrocity: He asks the doctors for pictures of injured, better even: burnt children for propaganda reasons. Sauerbruch looks like he wants to throw up, and when the guy says that the entire medical staff will be armed (violating the Geneva Conventions that demand them to remain neutral), Sauerbruch is fed up and yells at him that there's no way that'll happen.
  • Of course, he's not the only one: The more obvious the defeat becomes, the louder does Nurse Christel spout her propaganda lines, appearing increasingly unhinged. She also leads a group of adolescent Volkssturm boys (basically Child Soldiers without much training) who are indoctrinated to be equally fanatic as she is into the hospital to use it as a military base, which is sheer suicide — which none of them seems to mind or realize.
  • The conversation in the Surgery Bunker, as the Russians get ever closer. Margot Sauerbruch tells her husband and Miss Fritsch that she is determined to greet the first Russian soldier that enters the bunker with a kiss, which leads to Sauerbruch telling her to not even think about that. What in some movies could be seen as a joking warning of a husband towards his wife not to stray, is actually a legitimate safety issue here, as Russian soldiers were notorious for raping women in retaliation for what German soldiers did in Russia and that is certainly not a fate that Sauerbruch wants for his wife. This conversation also includes a suggestion from Jung to set up a fake makeshift quarantine room, so that the young nurses can hide from the Russians.
  • De Crinis and his wife when their flight attempt comes to an end. They take out their cyanide capsules, and de Crinis smiles at his wife with something looking almost like pride when she (valiantly?) swallows hers — it becomes a mask of horror as she dies convulsing and desperately ringing for air.