Schenck and the burning of documents

The Schenck and the Burning of Documents Scene is another scene used in Downfall parodies.

In Downfall
The scene begins in the yard of a building, where papers are thrown out through the windows and burned in a pile. Soldiers are moving various objects such as paintings and chairs. Schenck, wearing a white coat sees the soldiers and his adjutant Müller throwing documents. Müller tells him that they're leaving, as Clausewitz has started. Schenck then asks who's gonna look after the soldiers and the people. His adjutant replies he doesn't know and Schenck calls this madness. He climbs down the stairs fastening his uniform. Outside he encounters SS-Obergruppenführer Tellermann, who oversaw what happened there. Schenck protests, saying that the food supply will colapse, and the soldiers will take food from the civilians when the fighting will spread all over the city. Tellermann says it's an order from the Führer. Schenck then tell him that while as a department head respons to SS and Himmler, he is also a doctor in the Wehrmacht, and they're not leaving yet. Tellermann says that the proffesor can stay in Berlin and orders to get him the proper papers. He then departs with his group of soldiers through the parked cars and trucks.

In Downfall Parodies
The scene is sometimes used parodies where the papers that are being burned usually carry a great importance. In KakashiBallZ's parody Hitler and Fegelein Join Forces To Take On Constantin Films, the place where the papers are burned is the Downfall Parodies Headquarters and the papers are Downfall parody manuscripts.

In Hitler Rants Parodies's The Assassination of Hitler: Episode II, the papers being burned are documents that can undermine the hopes of every person from the Reich who wants to become Führer.

Trivia

 * According to Schenck himself, the phrase "Ein guter Soldat findet immer seine Verpflegung" (A good soldier always finds his food) was actually said by Mohnke.