Diplomacy Quotes
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: As the French say, you only die once, but you stay dead a long time.
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GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Do you know what we do to men like you?
Raoul Nordling: Give them a medal?
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: [breaking a smile]Yes, on occasion. [stern again]
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Posthumously.
Raoul Nordling: Give them a medal?
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: [breaking a smile]Yes, on occasion. [stern again]
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Posthumously.
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Caporal Mayer: General, you are standing against the light. Not even a child would miss you.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: [on his balcony]Children are asleep at this time.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: [on his balcony]Children are asleep at this time.
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GÚnÚral von Choltitz: To think that barely two weeks ago Paris was the dream posting for a German soldier. The most docile, disciplined territory in the whole of Nazi Europe. An officer posted here knew he had left the war behind, and would want for nothing. The only battles to be fought here were to obtain the best table in a restaurant.
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Raoul Nordling: You'd rather not look reality in the eye?
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Whose reality, yours or mine?
Raoul Nordling: The reality that destroying Paris is absurd.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Yours then.
Raoul Nordling: Not mine alone. The world is watching you. In the end, you, General Dietrich von Choltitz, will be held responsible. And for what? To delay the Allied attack on Germany for a few weeks? It makes no sense. I understand that you have orders and must obey them. But surely, at some point obedience ceases to be a duty. In your whole career, have you never had a doubt or even a hesitation over the legality of an order?
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Even if that were the case, I have no right to incite uncertainty among my men through my own insubordination. A general at the front must be a model for his troops.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Whose reality, yours or mine?
Raoul Nordling: The reality that destroying Paris is absurd.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Yours then.
Raoul Nordling: Not mine alone. The world is watching you. In the end, you, General Dietrich von Choltitz, will be held responsible. And for what? To delay the Allied attack on Germany for a few weeks? It makes no sense. I understand that you have orders and must obey them. But surely, at some point obedience ceases to be a duty. In your whole career, have you never had a doubt or even a hesitation over the legality of an order?
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Even if that were the case, I have no right to incite uncertainty among my men through my own insubordination. A general at the front must be a model for his troops.
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GÚnÚral von Choltitz: You certainly are a fine talker. Abraham... a Jew. It's an interesting analogy. I no longer believe in God, but I remember the Bible well. In fact, you're asking me to betray the oath I took to serve my country. You're asking me to betray my whole upbringing. My father was a soldier. My grandfather was also a soldier. My ancestors fought Napoleon in his Russian campaign. And I have been in two wars.
Raoul Nordling: [opening his mouth to speak]
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: No, no, no, no, listen to me. Let me finish. I saw everything thing in those wars. The intoxicating victory and the humiliation of defeat. I, too, want this one to end - the sooner the better. But I will never capitulate.
Raoul Nordling: If Hitler told you to kill your little boy, you wouldn't hesitate? Like Abraham, 4,000 years ago?
Raoul Nordling: [opening his mouth to speak]
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: No, no, no, no, listen to me. Let me finish. I saw everything thing in those wars. The intoxicating victory and the humiliation of defeat. I, too, want this one to end - the sooner the better. But I will never capitulate.
Raoul Nordling: If Hitler told you to kill your little boy, you wouldn't hesitate? Like Abraham, 4,000 years ago?
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[last lines] Le concierge: Shall we take the car?
Raoul Nordling: On a day like this? You're kidding? Let's walk...
Raoul Nordling: On a day like this? You're kidding? Let's walk...
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Hauptmann Werner Ebernach: That will take 20 minutes. And believe me, Paris will be unrecognizable.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Good work. The Parisians will remember you.
Hauptmann Werner Ebernach: [scoffs]If there are any left.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: What is your estimate of causalities?
Hauptmann Werner Ebernach: It's hard to escape from hell. The current population's around 1.5 million.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: That's not too bad. Tell your men to be ready.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: Good work. The Parisians will remember you.
Hauptmann Werner Ebernach: [scoffs]If there are any left.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: What is your estimate of causalities?
Hauptmann Werner Ebernach: It's hard to escape from hell. The current population's around 1.5 million.
GÚnÚral von Choltitz: That's not too bad. Tell your men to be ready.
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