The "sense of honor" of Wehrmacht officers

Emile 2022-01-29 08:07:22

The noble officers regarded themselves as lofty and longed for the Iron Cross, but what they did was all despicable and despicable, extremely ironic. The ending shocked me, but made sense. Judging from the information revealed in the movie, the protagonist's army should be the southern army that is about to be surrounded, between the Crimea Peninsula and Stalingrad, at the most stalemate stage of the battle between the two sides. So there is a scene in the movie where the entire regiment retreats one after another and is finally forced to fight to the death. Steiner lets the noble officer let him prove himself.

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  • Jarvis 2022-03-20 09:02:54

    The war movie of the year before I came to the world, the war scene was grand and real, the slow motion close-up was used reasonably, and the special effects could only be filmed bit by bit in that era, and it showed the blood and cruelty of the war just right. . Still a classic war movie with a good ending.

  • Stefanie 2022-01-29 08:07:22

    ①The melody of "The Song of Hans" in the opening film is bright and popular ②It's not for the country or the party, it's purely for the friendship in the battle of Paoze ③What should we do after we lose this war? Prepare for the next war ④The general greets the wounded and shakes hands. The left hand is a broken limb, and the right is also broken. The cruelty of the war is all written in the detached expression of the wounded soldier. The release of wild laughter vanished into ashes

Cross of Iron quotes

  • Captain Stransky: What of your platoon?

    Sargeant Steiner: Two killed, one missing.

    Captain Stransky: Two killed, how?

    Sargeant Steiner: Bullets. Mortar fire, artillery, heavy salvos, bad luck, terminal syphilis, the usual things, Captain.

  • Captain Kiesel: They're rolling up both flanks, it's chaos.

    Colonel Brandt: That need no longer concern you. You are to report at once to general headquarters. You're being evacuated.

    Captain Kiesel: I can't leave the command, sir.

    Colonel Brandt: While I am still in a condition to issue orders those orders will be obeyed.

    Captain Kiesel: I'm prepared to disobey that order, sir.

    Colonel Brandt: You've been around Steiner too long. Come, listen to me for a moment... For many of us Germans the exterminator is long overdue, but I have decided that you are worth saving.

    Captain Kiesel: But I'm part of all this. There are better people than me. Most of them are being killed out there.

    Colonel Brandt: There's nothing wrong with you, except that you smoke too much. You're a brave man, braver than you think you are. One of these days there will be a need for brave civilians, had you thought of that? In the new Germany, if such a thing is allowed to exist, there will be need for builders, for thinkers, for poets. I begin to see now what your job is to be. I will make this my final order to you; you will search out and contact all of these, um... better people, you call them, and together you will take on the responsibility that goes with survival. Now you must leave. Please leave.