Maximilian Schell credited as playing...
Capt. Hardenberg
- Capt. Hardenberg: The German army is invincible because it is an army that obeys orders. Any order. No matter how distasteful. It has no sentimentalists, no moralists, no individualists. You will have no future in it if you don't understand that. You may have no future at all if you oppose it. I trouble to tell you this because you have a fine record. You will be a creative soldier, once you get all this "thinking" knocked out of you.
- Lt. Christian Diestl: [two Nazi officers, escaping on a motorcycle in the middle of the endless desert] I think I must sleep.
- Capt. Hardenberg: lf you sleep, you'll wake up in a British prison camp. Come on! Talk!
- Lt. Christian Diestl: I wish I was in zee mountains, where it is so cool and peaceful in the snow. So wonderful to feel the wind in your face. Clean and nice. And I like the smell of smoke in the winter, coming from the wood - in the fireplaces.
- Capt. Hardenberg: Talk about something else! Talk about women! Women! Women!
- Lt. Christian Diestl: I have a French girl - Françoise - and I think I can love her.
- Capt. Hardenberg: Was she beautiful?
- Lt. Christian Diestl: Yes! She was beautiful. And I wish I was with her, and not on this motorcycle, because I am - I am sick of Africa. And I am sick of the great German army. And I am sick of doing my duty!
- Capt. Hardenberg: Don't you know that when you became a soldier, you contracted for killing in all its forms?