Germany quotes

“I've called every contact I have from Paris to Bangkok. This is the only thing I could dig up. He ran some kind of secret science unit outside of Berlin before the start of World War I. Something called Unit 11. It's been more than 30 years since anyone has spoken his name. Until today.”

Gwyneth Paltrow - Polly Perkins

“Hail, hail East Germany, Land of fruit and grape, Land where you'll regret, if you try to escape, no matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall, forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first.”

“There is widespread disgust in the officer corps toward the crimes committed by the Nazis, the murder of civilians, the torture and starvation of prisoners, the mass execution of Jews. My duty as an officer is no longer to save my country, but to save human lives.”
Tom Cruise - Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

“At the outbreak of World War II, Germany increased its U-boat production by 1,000%, mass-producing 17 new U-boats a month. Hitler knew the key to winning the war in Europe was to control the Atlantic. By 1942, German U-boats, working in groups called wolf packs, sunk over 1,000 Allied ships. Their success gave Germany a decisive advantage. They...” (continue)(continue reading)
Til Schweiger - Kapitän Jonas Herdt

“I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!”
Ulrich Matthes - Joseph Goebbels

“The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form; a country that, in my memory, I will always associate with my mother.”
Daniel Brühl - Alex

“Many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”
Stanley Tucci - Abraham Erskine

“I cannot drink any longer but I like to forget that. We Germans are experts at forgetting. We forgot we were Nazis. Now we have forgotten 40 years of Communism - all gone.”
Bruno Ganz - Ernst Jürgen

“- Stevo: Dad, look at this. What kinda, what kinda car is this?
- Dad: That would be a Porshe.
- Stevo: A Porshe, that you bought at a Volkswagen dealership. Volkswagen, right? For the people who designed it? Who made that possible, let me give you a hint, Adolf Hitler.”
Matthew Lillard - Stevo
Christopher McDonald - Dad

“I've lived a quiet life. The Germans have not lived quiet lives. We must learn from them how to become gangsters, thugs, useful with knife, dynamite, poison!”
Paul Muni - Eric Toresen

“You know when I was a boy and rock'n'roll came to East Germany, the communists said it was subversive... Maybe they were right.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - John Matrix

“- Emmet Linscott: What kind of name is Bleichert? Dutch?
- Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert: German.
- Emmet Linscott: Ah, a great people, the Germans. Hitler was a bit excessive.”
John Kavanagh - Emmett Linscott
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert

“American planes will always be superior as long as there are wonderful men like you in the cockpit. And German parts.”
Kevin Dunn - Lt. Cmdr. James Block

“When I was a sportswoman on the East German Olympic Track and Field team, they dispensed anabolic steroids as freely as here in America they dole out Gator-Ade.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Dr. Alex Hesse

“- Barney Caine: Doctor, Mr. Reimeck told us that you had been captured by the Russians.
- Dr. Esau: The Mongolians came into the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. They swarmed into my office still wearing their white winter uniforms in May. They kept flushing my toilet over and over. Can you believe? The German nation defeated by men who have never seen...” (continue)(continue reading)
George C. Scott - Barney Caine
Sir John Gielgud - Dr. Esau

“- Sam Boyd: Is it alarmed?
- Pyiotr Ivanovich Grushenko: Only if you frighten it.”

Gene Hackman - Sam Boyd
Mikhail Baryshnikov - Pyiotr Ivanovich Grushenko

“We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Major-General Henning von Tresckow

“It's the battle of the luxury cars. Lincoln Continental and American know-how and skill against the German machine.”
Tim Thomerson - Ray Binkowski

“Germany has declared war on the Jones boys.”
Julian Glover - Walter Donovan

“- Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
- Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
- Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.”
Mady Christians - Manya Lodge
Patricia Collinge - Helen Stacey

“I know you hate Americans, but just remember if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German right now.”
Jim Belushi - Neil Schwary

“The Germans and the Italians couldn't get rid of us. There is absolutely no reason why we should surrender to the Scots.”
Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random

You know there were actually groups in Germany called "Jews for Hitler"? They were deluded, they thought he'd be good for the country.
Woody Allen - David Dobel

“Three things I love about Germany: my Mercedes-Benz, no speed limit on the autobahn and a black market for anything I can get my hands on.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Ray Elwood

“Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers. He cannot, like Hitler, make them feel like that.”

J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe