"MAN ON RADIO:" "On the other side of the world, in Europe, the Allied forces are pounding the Germans with relentless force." "We do not expect to have a winter lull in Europe." "We expect to keep striking, keep the enemy on the move... (MEN CHATTERING)" "HART: 1944, December." "I was miles from the front, an." "Troops, fuel dumps, enemy unit." "They were pins on a map to me." "HART:" "Champagne?" "Are you trying to score a few points?" "Just trying to aid the war effor." "MAN:" "Tom?" "Sir?" "The captain needs a lift back to the 106th." "Can you find him a driver?" "I can take him, sir." "Funny, I had a feeling you'd say that." "Well, there hasn't been much movement today, sir." "So I see." "Captain." "Don't forget, sir." "You wanted to send some of that champagne along as well." "(TYPEWRITERS CLACKING)" "Yes." "Yes, thank you for reminding me, Tom." "General should get a kick out of that." "Sir." "MAN ON RADIO: ...are now fighte s in northern France and Germany." "Within ten weeks after the firt , the Allies had landed nearly two million men." "You know what this army could use, sir?" "Snowplow service." "What we could use is half a million gallons of gasoline and a road or two that wasn't paved with Bouncing Betties." "German S-mines." "Yes, sir." "You really ought to spend a night on the line sometime, Lieutenant." "I know that, sir." "Of course, it's not too likely, ?" "Sir?" "Colonel says your father is a se." "So I guess you won't spend too many nights in a foxhole, will you?" "It's nothing to be ashamed of, s." "That's a hell of a father to hav." "Where to, sir?" "St. Vith." "I'm afraid you're going the wrong way, sir." "St. Vith is due west." "I'm pretty sure St. Vith is due east." "Sergeant, straight ahead." "M.P.:" "Can I see that, sir?" "HART:" "I drove this route yesterday, Sergeant." "M.P.:" "Mmm-hmm." "(GUN FIRES)" "Get your hands up!" "Up!" "(IN GERMAN)" "Halt!" "(MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "(DOOR SLAMS)" "(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)" "LUTZ:" "Are you in great pain?" "First Lieutenant Thomas Hart." "Serial number 1841287." "Would you care for a cigarette?" "Your train is an eight-kilometer march from here." "Of course, with some shoes on yo." "HART:" "First Lieutenant Thomas Ha." "Serial number 1841287." "Thank you, Lieutenant." "But we bow there is much more to you than t." "Show me the locations of the fuel dumps." "Just point, and we can end all this." "(SHUDDERING)" "(IN GERMAN)" "I'll have your clothes returned to you immediately." "When you are dressed, we'll have another chat." "Our last one, I hope." "Smile, Joe." "For you, the war is over." "ABRAMS:" "Lieutenant." "This'll help." "No, thanks, soldier." "I'll be all right." "No, you won't." "Come on, take it." "Just till you warm up." "Take it, sir." "Thank you." "MAN:" "Hey, Captain, does somebody tell our folks about us being captured?" "The Germans give a list to the m, the military notifies the families." "Is that voluntary, sir?" "How do you mean, Lieutenant?" "I mean, can you ask them not to?" "I don't think so." "Have to put some straw in there." "Straw." "In your shoes." "For frostbite." "(BREATHING INTO PALMS)" "(MEN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "Another slave detail, sir." "Hey, ladies!" "Next batch of shells you turn out, nothing but duds this time, all right?" "Mortars no boom-boom, ja?" "MAN:" "Fire!" "Captain!" "P-51, incoming!" "Ours?" "MAN:" "Everybody, get down!" "Everybody, stay down!" "Keep low!" "HART:" "What's happening?" "Why are they shooting at us?" "They can't read the roof." "(IN GERMAN)" "(MACHINE GUNS FIRING)" "All right, get the doors!" "Everybody, get the doors!" "(CLAMORING)" "MAN:" "Hart, help them!" "(ALL CLAMORING)" "Get to the other cars!" "Get those men out!" "We're spelling out!" "Round up your men now!" "We're spelling out!" "We're spelling out!" "Hart!" "Get that man clear of here!" "All right, men, get in line!" "Assemble on me!" "Move it!" "Move it!" "All right, men!" "Let's get back in line!" "(ALL CLAMORING)" "Don't you die on me." "All right." "Oh, Christ." "Okay, keep looking at me." "Look at me." "Look at me." "Shit." "Shit." "I'm sorry." "You'll be all right." "(IN GERMAN)" "ROSS:" "Easy, son." "Easy." "(MEN YELLING IN GERMAN)" "(GUN FIRES)" "MAN:" "They're telling us to march." "Probably ought to take his boots, Lieutenant." "Lieutenant!" "Take his boots!" "Either you or some Jerry's gonna get them." "Take them, sir, while you still t ." "His socks, too." "Ain't gonna help him any." "MAN:" "Stay together." "Six abreast." "All right, let's do what they say." "I'm sorry." "(MAN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(DOGS BARKING)" "Once again," "I'm forced to remind you, escape is not a sport." "Think of it this way." "Now these Russians have a chance at a happy New Year." "(LAUGHING)" "Those are dogs you're saluting, Colonel." "Animals." "(SPEAKS GERMAN)" "My country doesn't make those kind of distinctions, Colonel." "(IN GERMAN)" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(VISSER REPEATING HIMSELF IN GER)" "McNAMARA:" "They're our allies, Co." "COLONEL:" "Oh, yeah, you and your allies." "Let me tell you about you and your allies." "The Ministry of War has just rels from our offensive in the Ardennes." "200,000 Allied killed or captured." "Your Third Army, Patton, in full retreat." "And the Wehrmacht has captured enough abandoned fuel to retake Paris, perhaps even drive your troops back to the sea." "Might be crowded around here this winter." "Major Fussel." "(IN GERMAN)" "(FUSSEL SHOUTING ORDERS IN GERMA)" "Turn around, Joe." "Yeah, that's it." "Turn around." "MAN:" "Ross?" "Hart?" "Ross and Hart?" "Captain Ross." "Major Clary." "Lieutenant Hart." "Lieutenant." "Debriefing, gentlemen." "Officers' hut." "On the double." "MAN ON RADIO: ..." "German offensive on the American front is still going on." "The entire front, stretching about 30 miles south of Monschau, is in motion." "On our side, countermeasures are being taken..." "MAN 1:" "Got a pack of Chesterfiel." "." "MAN 2:" "Sure." "This is a major German effort." "Some of the best units in the German army are involved in this penetration." "At ease, soldier." "Sit down." "Thank you, sir." "So tell me, Lieutenant, how come?" "Sir?" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "First you survive crashing that , then Hans and Fritz take your bo." "You got a rabbit's foot in your ?" "Two horseshoes and a four-leaf clover, sir." "Atta boy." "And by the way, you might want to take it easy on that bread." "You haven't had anything solid for a while." "Wouldn't want you to wind up in ." "I don't know, sir." "After the march I just made, an infirmary might look like the Waldorf to me." "Well, a stomach can shrink quite a bit in 17 days." "That's the number, isn't it?" "17 days?" "Six days on the train, another s." "What was it, Joe?" "Five days of interrogation?" "No, sir." "Three days." "Well, anyway, easy does it." "Yes, sir." "Thank you." "McNAMARA:" "So, this interrogator y ." "His name wasn't Schumann, was it?" "No, sir." "Lutz." "Schumann was a real prick." "Almost broke me in two." "MAN:" "Goon up." "(DOG BARKING)" "(MAN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "(SWING PLAYING ON RADIO)" "Not much for small talk, I guess." "Yeah, you'll come to appreciate that." "Smoke, Lieutenant?" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "Would you care for a cigarette?" "Again, Lieutenant, I need to ask you." "The fuel dumps?" "Thank you." "(LIGHTER CLICKS OPEN)" "McNAMARA:" "So this Captain Lutz, he know much about your operations at the chateau?" "He knew everything, sir." "Fuel dump locations?" "Troop movements?" "Sir, he knew what I'd had for breakfast the morning of my capture." "Point, and we can end all this." "Just name, rank and serial number." "Good enough." "You're excused, Lieutenant." "We won't be able to quarter you ." "We're gonna have to put you in B." "Isn't Barracks 27 for enlisted men, sir?" "Yes, it is." "But as you can see, the Germans are doing rather brisk business these days." "You'll be comfortable there." "Yes, sir." "Lieutenant." "Sir." "(DOOR OPENING)" "LUTZ:" "Point!" "Point!" "Or say hello to stumps fo!" "Good." "(MAN YELLING IN GERMAN)" "(DOGS BARKING)" "MAN:" "Donny, you in?" "I call." "Hold your water, Joe." "Looks like a whole division just." "Who's in charge here?" "(MAN SINGING ON RADIO)" "All right, how many we up to?" "Three lovely ladies, big shot." "Excuse me." "Yeah." "I'm looking for who's in charge here." "From the looks of things, I'd say Adolf Hitler." "I'm Lieutenant Tom Hart." "It's okay, fellas." "Staff Sergeant Vic Bedford." "Good." "You, too." "You just come in from Ardennes?" "Yeah." "Colonel sent me over to bunk in here." "Officers' barracks are full." "Hmm." "Well, in that case, welcome to Rio." "Hope you don't mind, sir, all we have is this middle bunk right here." "HART:" "Middle's fine." "I'm betting you're a Lucky Strike man." "You bet right." "Care for some hooch, Lieutenant?" "Ringing in the New Year." "No, thanks." "It's fermented raisins, mostly." "A little turpentine thrown in for flavor." "I'm fine." "MAN:" "We got anybody left on the front, sir?" "How are you doing, Lieutenant?" "It's all the guards talk about." "What the hell happened out there?" "Give him a break, fellas." "He just got here." "Lieutenant." "Guard 'em with your life." "They dr , especially with the guards." "Thanks, Sergeant." "Excuse me a second." "Fellas!" "Listen up." "Lieutenant Hart here is gonna be staying with us for a while." "Sir." "Men." "Say, what's it take to get in that poker game?" "I expect we can work something out." "Good." "Sir, you about a size ten?" "Why?" "They got a Woolworths behin?" "You never know." "(MEN CHATTERING)" "(WIND WHISTLING)" "(MAN COUGHING)" "(MAN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(DOG BARKING)" "(FIRE CRACKLING)" "Just piss on him, sir." "It's the only thing that gets them moving." "Happy New Year." "(GERMAN MUSIC PLAYING OVER LOUDSPEAKER)" "(MEN YELLING IN GERMAN)" "It's 1945!" "Happy New Year!" "Ten and a half was the best I co." "For the holiday season." "(MAN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(GERMAN SONG CONTINUES PLAYING ON LOUDSPEAKER)" "Look at the smile on this guy." "Socks, too." "Could've used those in the Hurtgen." "What's the matter?" "You don't like trench foot?" "Sure." "It's just that once my toe," "I didn't have a single purse that matched." "Major Fussel." "McNAMARA:" "Square 'em up, Major." "Yes, sir." "Barracks, attention!" "(MEN COUNTING IN GERMAN)" "Look at this." "Got those poor bastards going around the clock now." "See that factory out past the north tower?" "Germans making bombs right under our noses." "Supposed to be a shoe factory." "Instead, they got the Russians rt ." "What the hell is that?" "BEDFORD:" "They're fliers." "They got niggers flying airplanes now?" "332nd Fighter Squadron." "Read about them in Yank Magazine." "I'll be damned." "Well, we got us s." "Fuckin' Jerry's right." "We must be losing this war." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "MEN:" "...five, six, seven, eight." "Lift." "Lift." "Lieutenant." "Sir." "(McNAMARA LAUGHS)" "Looks like it'll be a good show." "Yeah, it does." "It's high stakes around here, si." "What do you mean?" "Half the smokes in camp are ridin where you're putting the new men." "Where do you think we should put them?" "I think I'd give them their own billet tent, sir." "Yeah, we can't do that." "I wanted to put them in 27 with you." "Sir, wouldn't they be better off in the officers' barracks?" "I don't carry enough weight to move two officers out of 22." "I can't make them the only two officers in the enlisted men's barracks." "You're in 27." "You could keep an eye on 'em for me." "Sir, I'm still new to that barracks." "I don't carry a lot of weight with the men yet." "You got bars on your shoulder, L." "That ought to be weight enough." "(MEN CHATTERING)" "MAN 1:" "What do you got?" "Come on." "MAN 2:" "I got two pair." "MAN 3:" "Tastes like chicken, right?" "No." "No." "Maggots." "It's protein." "Eat." "You called?" "What do you got?" "Three pair." "Gonna have to make some room in here, fellas." "Come on in, men." "We got two more guests." "Second Lieutenants Lamar Archer a." "You got to be kidding, sir." "They're gonna live here?" "Two officers just entered the ba." "Where's your salute?" "What's the big idea, sir?" "I mean, we're all full up in here." "HART:" "Not anymore." "Croutch?" "Krasner?" "BOTH:" "Yes, sir?" "You've been reassigned." "Barracks." "Colonel wants you situated before lockdown." "Goon up." "(GUARDS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "What were you flying?" "P-51 bomber escorts." "Must be a shitload of dead bomber crews scattered across Europe." "See these bars, Sergeant?" "A pair of bars don't make you fie the same roof with white folks, ." "Bedford!" "That's "Lieutenant Boy." You got that?" "Call yourself whatever you want." "You're still just a nigger to me." "I didn't quite catch that, Sergeant." "What was that?" "All right!" "That's enough." "Just let it go." "Just let it pass." "(CLEARS THROAT)" "(MAN COUGHING)" "MAN:" "Something like that, okay?" "And then do a stop-and-go." "All right?" "Set!" "Go!" "Over here!" "Nice, Johnny!" "Nice!" "Ready?" "Go." "Uh-oh." "Deadline." "Lieutenant!" "You mind grabbing that, boy?" "MAN:" "Come on, let's go." "Cromin?" "Come here." "Do your route." "Do your route." "Do." "I'm going." "I'm going." "Halt, Kriegie!" "Halt!" "Halt!" "Nice one, sir." "Cookie!" "Hey!" "More bread." "More bread." "MAN:" "Touchdown!" "Touchdown!" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Bon appetit!" "(ALL CHEERING)" "(GUN FIRES)" "Shit." "Son of a bitch." "McNAMARA:" "Nobody moves." "How bad, Sergeant?" "It's just a nick." "I'll be fine." "You all right?" "Yeah." "(MAN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "MAN:" "Joe, right here!" "Fuck 'em." "(ALL CHEERING)" "Go get that hand looked at." "Yes, sir." "Hey, Bedford." "Cigarettes?" "(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)" "You're a regular bank, Vic." "Mmm-hmm." "How's the hand?" "That really what you came over here to ask me?" "No." "Major Clary told me that you went to see him to lodge a complaint." "Yeah." "About Lieutenants Archer and Scott." "I'm sure he'll take it up with Eisenhower the first chance he gets." "They don't belong here." "Nobody belongs here." "But this is where the Colonel put them." "Yeah." "I bet you wish the Colonel would have given you that open bunk in the officers' barracks right about now, huh, Lieutenant?" "I mean, this is hardly the Waldorf." "Ain't that right?" "We're not gonna have a problem." "What'd you do before the war?" "For a living." "I was in law school." "Second year." "Harvard?" "Yale." "Meet many coloreds up there?" "A f." "Yeah, well, I dealt with their kind." "Two years I was on the police force in East St. Louis, and I know what they are." "So let's not pretend like we're ." "You finished, Sergeant?" "No, I'm not finished." "We never did set on a price, did we, for them boots and socks?" "I mean, it might be as cold as te but that don't make me Santa Claus." "What do you want?" "I'll take your watch." "This was a gift from my father." "I'm betting your daddy can affor." "This gonna buy me a little civility, Sergeant?" "Tons." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "(NARRATOR SPEAKING GERMAN ON F)" "(MAN LAUGHING)" "MAN:" "That was great." "Oh, baby." "Not much of a picture, is it?" "Well, we do feel a little misled, sir." "The guard told us they'd be showing" "The Life and Times of Jesse Owens." "You know, you men can sit up front with everyone else." "We're fine, sir." "Nobody's gonna bother you." "I said we're fine, sir." "(MAN CHATTERING IN GERMAN ON LOUDSPEAKER)" "GUARD:" "Take your places!" "Barracks, attention!" "(FARTS)" "How was that?" "That was nice, D.W. That was 18 inches." "Come on, Joe." "It was two feet at." "Hey, either way, my record still stands." "Up!" "Up!" "Up!" "(SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "Out!" "Out!" "Out of beds!" "Attention at the bunks!" "Now, now, now!" "Now!" "Who is the ranking man in here?" "HART:" "Lieutenant Thomas Hart." "One of your men was out on the compound tonight." "He was spotted on the east field removing a spike from one of the." "Your men are aware of this camp's policy concerning the possession and concealment of weapons, are they not?" "Major, no one has left this barracks." "Whoa, whoa." "Wait a minute." "What ?" "Quiet!" "This is a plant!" "Somebody put th." "Quiet." "Quiet!" "(SPEAKS GERMAN)" "(SPEAKS GERMAN)" "You bastard, I heard you go out!" "I should have seen this coming!" "Major, where are you taking this man?" "Examples must be made, Lieutenant." "We take the safety of our men very seriously." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Major!" "Where are y'all taking him to?" "What did he do?" "(DOGS BARKING)" "SCOTT:" "Lamar!" "Hey, Lamar!" "Lamar!" "MAN:" "Fire!" "(GUNS FIRING)" "I'll fucking kill you." "I'll fucking kill you, Bedford!" "You put that spike there!" "Watch your mouth, nigger!" "He put that spike there!" "Get off of me!" "Lincoln, look at me." "Lincoln, look at me." "Get off of me!" "Get off of me!" "Can I let you go?" "Lincoln?" "It was a minor offense, Colonel." "This man deserved 15 days in the." "Not execution." "He attempted to escape." "Bullshit." "You dragged him out of his barracks, barely clothed." "Your men lined him up and shot him." "This man wasn't trying to escape any more than those Russians youg ?" "A lesser race?" "There's a word you Americans use, as I remember." "But, of course, your country doesn't make such distinctions." "And neither do you, I'm sure." "He was an officer." "A lieutenant in the Army Air Corps." "Yeah." "That's why you were so eager to welcome him and the other one into your barracks." "Look at that, Colonel." "We had every right to question a man for concealment of a dangerous weapon." "This man had rights, too." "The Geneva Convention specifically forbids summary execution..." "Take a look around you, Colonel." "This is not Geneva." "Where are you going?" "To check on my men." "You're welcome to do so, of course." "In the meantime, I'll be looking in on your barracks to listen to what's on the BBC this evening." "Goon up!" "Now, go see your men, Colonel." "Good night." "(MAN CHATTERING IN GERMAN ON L)" "MAN:" "Not to love Der Fuehrer ise" "So we hell ALL:" "Heil!" "Heil!" "Heil!" "Right in Der Fuehrer's face" "Is we not the supermen Aryan pure supermen" "Ja we is the supermen Super-duper supermen" "Excuse us, Captain." "How's Scott holding up?" "It's hard to tell." "He isn't sayi." "He was asking about the body." "And there were some personal eff." "Dog tags." "(AIRPLANE APPROACHING)" "(ALL CHEERING)" "(MAN WHISTLING)" "MAN 1:" "Come on!" "MAN 2:" "Get him!" "Come on, boys!" "MAN:" "Yeah!" "How does that taste, you bastard?" "SCOTT:" "Careful, Bedford." "That's a nigger you're rooting f." "Tail's painted red." "Means he's 99th." "And right out of Tuskegee, boy." "MAN:" "Clear the barracks!" "Come on!" "Let's get him out!" "Let's get him out of there!" "The theater!" "Get on top of the theater!" "Get him to the doc, now!" "Come on!" "I want men down here!" "Get this!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Go over the top." "We need some more buckets!" "Quick!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Let's move!" "(MAN SPEAKING GERMAN)" "(MEN CONTINUE SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "Move it around this corner." "Yes, sir." "You know where I wish I'd never been?" "Where's that?" "The goddamn Waldorf." "It's not personal." "He just can't stand being lied to." "I never lied to him." "Don't." "You hung yourself the minute he debriefed you." "That guy Lutz they threw you in with?" "He was a level-one interrogator." "McNamara had him, too." "When a guy won't talk, they just keep kicking him up the ladder." "Level two, level three." "It takes weeks." "He was in there for a month." "And the only guy you saw was Lutz." "And he spit you out of there in three days." "All I gave him was name, rank an." "See, the thing about the Colonel is he's not like you and me." "He's West Point, fourth-generation." "He was raised on all this." "So crap like this, catching a junior officer in an obvious lie..." "All it does is remind him of howr ." "The one he's supposed to be fighting." "You see?" "(DOOR OPENS)" "MAN 1:" "Knock it off." "MAN 2:" "What the hell is he doing?" "What you doing, Lieutenant?" "God damn it, Lincoln." "We should have sold some tickets for this one." "GUARD:" "Halt, Kriegie!" "Hands up!" "!" "(DOG BARKING)" "Halt!" "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "(CLAMORING)" "(GUARDS SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "Move it." "Move it." "(GUARDS SPEAKING GERMAN)" "VISSER:" "Two of your men dead in two days, Colonel." "It seems you've lost control of your company." "Will Lieutenant Scott be granted the right to stand trial and face his charge?" "Major Fussel saw him standing ov." "I would say he's had his trial." "Any prisoner accused of a crime t r has the right to a trial." "And if the boy were being held i, there wouldn't be any trial at a." "Is this not so?" "Yeah, maybe you're right, Colonel." "Maybe we should just forget the trial." "Let's just drag him out of the barracks and shoot two holes in his chest like you did with Lieutenant Archer." "Uh-huh." "A trial." "A court martial, like in your American movies?" "Yes?" "Yeah, something like that." "That should be fun." "Yeah." "All right, Colonel." "You may conduct it in your theater here." "(IN GERMAN)" "Colonel, my men are in this thear ." "With your permission, we'd like to erect a billet tent to house the proceedings." "No." "Your theater will do quite nicely, Colonel." "You have until the end of the week to conduct your trial." "It's a capital charge, Colonel." "The trial will take more than a few days." "One thousand more American prisos s will be arriving over the weekend, and I'm putting them in your theater." "Colonel, I just explained..." "Colonel!" "Saturday, your theater is mine." "(IN GERMAN)" "Wait." "Colonel!" "This is a murder site." "I beg your pardon, Lieutenant?" "I said this is a murder site." "The body and everything around it are now evidence." "This area cannot be disturbed until everything is photographed." "Of course." "(IN GERMAN)" "I'm appointing you counsel for Lieutenant Scott." "Sir, I'm not a lawyer." "You sounded like one a minute ago." "I could be a material witness." "I mean, I heard the Lieutenant going out." "The Lieutenant needs our help." "I've appointed you counsel." "Understood?" "Yes, sir." "Dismissed, Lieutenant." "Sir." "(THUMPING ON DOOR)" "SCOTT:" "And this guy that's prosecuting me, this Captain Sisk." "Is he a real lawyer?" "Yes." "That sounds about right." "I think we have to paint this th." "." "Just a fight that got a little out of hand." "You're supposed to ask me if I did it first." "Look, I came here to kill Nazis." "If it was some crackers that I wanted to kill," "I could have stayed in Macon." "Major Fussel ID'd you standing over the body!" "Fussel is a Nazi!" "No." "Fussel is a witness." "And he's enough to hang you." "Look, all I'm saying is if it wat , then it's not murder." "It's manslaughter." "Do you understand that?" "(SCOTT CHUCKLING)" "Man, oh, man." "Can I fire you?" "Now, look, Scott, I'm just trying..." "If it's a colored guy on trial, and it's a white man who's been murdered, there's no such thing as manslaughter." "Don't you know that?" "Or is that something that they teach you in the third year of law school?" "What did you expect from me, anyway?" ""Yes, sir, boss!" "Thank you, boss." "You're mighty kind."" "Is that the way a railroaded colored man acts where you're from?" "Nobody's railroading you, Scott." "Then how come the only real lawyer is the guy that's prosecuting me, and I'm stuck with you defending me!" "That's how the Colonel wanted it." "Yeah, but I ain't being railroad." "MAN:" "Barracks, fall out!" "I'll meet you back at the barracks." "Yes, sir." "Well, Lieutenant?" "I'm going to need a few things, sir." "Who has Bedford's personal effects?" "We do." "I'll need to see them." "And the photographs that were ta." "And, of course, his body." "What did Scott tell you?" "Sir?" "You were with him all day." "What did he tell you?" "I'm sorry, sir." "I can't reveal that." "Sure you can." "Attorney-client privilege, sir." "Only an attorney has attorney-client privilege." "I need to be briefed on everything that Scott intends to testify to." "Sir, you're going to be president of the court martial." "How can I possibly discuss our case with you?" "Are you suggesting that I would betray Lieutenant Scott?" "That I would share his details with the prosecution?" "No, sir." "Scott followed Bedford out throu." "If he testifies to that fact, every German in this camp will know how we get in and out of barracks after dark." "And every man in this camp would be compromised because of that." "Are you following this, Lieutenant?" "Yes, sir." "Good." "Scott will testify that he went out through a hole beneath the stove." "And you will make certain that h." "Do we understand each other, Lie?" "We do, sir." "Dismissed." "Permission to speak, sir?" "Speak freely." "Scott thinks this is all just for show." "He thinks you passed sentence asy ." "Is he right?" "Bedford's footlocker is in my ba." "I'll make sure you get it." "VISSER:" "Not much to look at, is he?" "Did you know him?" "No, not personally." "But my guards certainly seemed to." "These are for you." "Thank you." "How well?" "Mmm?" "Your guards." "You said they knew ." "How well?" "Well, you'll have to ask them about that." "This is yours, too, I believe." "We found it on his wrist." "What with the inscription and those new boots on your feet," "I made the assumption." "It's a little hard to imagine, C." "Your guards sitting for an inter." "I can arrange it." "I can arrange anything you like." "It seems only fair, what with your colonel throwing you to the wolves." "I'm not sure I follow you." "Really?" "Yale isn't in the habit of accepting halfwits." "At least, it wasn't when I was studying there." "Oldest member of the class of '28." "My fellow students voted me "Hardest Worker."" "But we can swap stories some other time, can't we?" "Right now you've got a trial to prepare for." "It's a sincere offer, Lieutenant." "Anything I can do to help." "Truly." "SISK:" "And exactly where were y, ?" "FUSSEL:" "I was walking the arear and the Australian compound." "At about what time?" "Maybe about 1:00 in the morning." "And can you tell the court what you saw?" "The schwarze Lieutenant Scott wa." "It looked to me like he was checking that the man was dead." "I blew my whistle, and he started to run." "And what did you do next?" "I would have shot, but it was dark." "And so was he." "(CROWD CHUCKLES)" "HART:" "Major Fussel, how well did you know Sergeant Bedford?" "A little, I think." "You traded with him regularly?" "Traded?" "Bartered." "Cigarettes for a pair of boots." "Chocolate for some spare parts." "No, I never did this." "A Kriegie trading with a German soldier?" "I never saw it." "WAKELY:" "Am I allowed to repeat w, ?" "You may, Private." "Lieutenant Scott said, "I'll kill you." ""I'll fuckin' kill you, Bedford."" "Corporal, have you ever heard ann threaten a fellow soldier during your time in the army?" ""Better shape up or I'll kill you."" ""I'll kill you if you touch my cigarettes again," that sort of thing?" "CROMIN:" "Yes, sir." "I bet you've even made such a threat yourself, once or twice." "I suppose so." "Corporal, did you ever actually kill any of the men you threatened in this manner?" "No, sir." "But I'm not colored." "I can control myself." "So you, too, had heard the threats made by the accused against Sergeant Bedford?" "HART:" "Your Honor, this being the fourth prosecution witness called to testify on this matter, if the defense will stipulate thd did indeed threaten the life of Sergeant Bedford, could we dispense with any further testimony to his having done so?" "Your Honor, Sergeant Webb is beld as an eyewitness to the crime itself." "He's what?" "Is that right, Sergeant?" "Yes, sir." "Sir, that's a lie!" "SISK:" "Your Honor, the Sergeant wy that on the night of the murder he watched through a window in B7 as Lieutenant Scott accosted Sergeant Bedford outside the theater and broke his neck." "HART:" "Your Honor, he did no such thing!" "I was standing right beside Sergeant Webb at the exact time of the murder." "He saw nothing of the sort." "The hell I didn't." "You don't kno." "Sir, I request that this court instruct this witness as to the consequences of perjuring himself in a court martial!" "McNAMARA:" "He put his hand on thee to tell the truth, Lieutenant." "Objection, Your Honor!" "That's good enough for me." "We've had no prior notice." "Sit down, Lieutenant." "Your Honor, his bias alone demands..." "Lieutenant!" "Sit down, please." "(MEN CHATTERING)" "I'll catch up with you." "MAN 1:" "I gotta go make some trades in Barracks 18." "MAN 2:" "See if you can get me som." "HART:" "Webb." "You're a lying sack of shit." "You?" "WEST:" "Yeah, and maybe you ought to mind your own business..." "This doesn't concern you, West." "Or you, any of you." "What do you know, General George S. Patton just showed up." "Return to your barracks, Corpora." "Take your two friends with you." "It's okay." "So, what is it, Webb?" "Up there, ?" "What, do you think you owe it to?" "Why are you so bent about that flying bellhop anyway?" "He's a soldier." "Vic Bedford was a soldier." "He fought." "He had courage." "But you wouldn't know too much about that, would you, Lieutenant?" "You lied in there today." "You didn't see what happened any." "I didn't have to." "I know it." "Not good enough." "It's good enough for McNamara." "Sorry about what happened in the, ." "I didn't see it coming." "You're saying that's the first time you've seen a man lie through his teeth holding his hand on the Bible?" "I was writing a letter to my father." "I figured I should tell him first." "He was part of 369th Infantry in." "The old 15th." "It was the first Negro troops to." "Did your father serve?" "Mmm." "My father was in headquarters." "He had an eight on his shoulder, too." "His father made sure of it." "That's how we do things in our family." "That's a shame." "Got your testimony to prepare." "Yeah." "(MAN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "(TRUCK APPROACHING)" "Lieutenant." "How are you?" "Not too well, I imagine." "Come on up." "That was quite a beating you took today." "It's warm inside." "(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON PHONOGR)" "You read Mark Twain?" "He's wonderful." "Colonel, I have witnesses to pre." "Yes, I know." "It's why I wanted to see you." "We keep a library of all American military manuals." "I thought this one might be of particular use to you." "I can't accept this, Colonel." "We." "Lieutenant, without this, your client will face the firing squad." "Would that be better?" "Your son?" "Yes." "Where's he fighting?" "He is not anymore." "The Russian front." "Novgorod." "Horrible place." "I'm sorry." "I killed my share of English and French, I suppose." "In the first war." "They had fathers, too." "It's verboten, you know?" "Negro jazz." "These might be the only copies of their kind in the entire Reich." "But I'm quite fond of them." "Nice to read by, anyway." "Takes a man right back." "Take a seat." "Thank you for your time, Colonel." "Lieutenant." "Enjoy the manual." "Come to order, gentlemen." "Captain Sisk, is the prosecution prepared to call its next witness?" "We are, Your Honor." "Begging the court's pardon, sir." "Yes, Lieutenant?" "Before we continue, Your Honor, n n that the court may have overlookd a few procedural matters yesterd." "Referring to the US Army Manual ," "Chapter 12, Sections 57 and 58." "Make your point." "According to these sections, You, the court was obliged yesterday td if he wished to challenge any mef the court for preemptory disqualn before any pleas were entered." "A little late in the game for that, isn't it, Lieutenant?" "Nevertheless, it is a right specifically granted to the defendant." "Very well." "Does the accused wish to challenge any member of the court now?" "We do, Your Honor." "You, sir." "(AUDIENCE MURMURING)" "Request denied." "Proceed, Captain Sisk." "Sir, according to Chapter 12, Se, defense is allowed one preemptory , and this challenge is not subject to any ruling by the court itself." "McNAMARA:" "Request denied, Lieute." "HART:" "Then the court must address Section 58E which states the defense may disqualify a member of the board for cause if that member has displayed a bias toward the accused or his case." "This court has shown no bias in this case, Lieutenant." "Your Honor, this court has demonstrated, in ex parte conversations before the commencement of this hearing, a distinct prejudice against the accused, his case, and his counsel, sir." "McNAMARA:" "Very well." "We will take a short recess to consider the matter." "Lieutenant Hart?" "Sir." "Can I see you outside for a mome?" "Sir?" "Listen to me, you pampered little shit." "I will not be laughed at." "Not by him." "Sir, I'm just trying to protect ." "Your client's about to lose his lawyer, Lieutenant." "Sir?" "Article 32, contempt of court." "Article 70, intentional delay." "I know the book, too." "Forwards and backwards." "Well, then you must know, sir, t." "Shut up and listen to me, Lieutenant." "You will not accept anything from that Commandant again." "Is that clear?" "You will not allow him to participate in these proceedings." "Is that clear?" "And you will never set foot in his office again without my permission." "Do we understand each other?" "(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS RUMBLING)" "MAN ON RADIO:" "...and propaganda poured into the ether as by the Germans over Strasbourg." "One minute you can hear Himmler himself announcing that he will be in Strasbourg by January 30, the anniversarys ." "The next, the Nazis are claiming that two new divisions are advancing on Strasbourg and that the Americans are in full flight from Alsace." "The closer they get, the more violent become the Nazi menaces, and the more honeyed their promises." "But today..." "Come in." "Have a seat." "...are turning in our favor." "We've checked the Germans along the Moder River." "They'll come again, of course, but the city now knows it can hope." "Have a drink?" "Sure." "Maybe you can help me decipher some of this code coming through the BBC tonight." "I don't think you need my help, Colonel." "It seems pretty clear what they're saying." "It would seem so." "Or perhaps it's all propaganda." "How about that?" "The citizens can't do much themselves with their simple guns and rifles." "But they're standing up to, and winning, the other war." "Strange thing about war wounds." "The older you grow, the less proud you become of them." "(BLUES MUSIC PLAYING)" "(GUN LOADING)" "You got another one of these aro?" "Of course." "Good." "Why don't you and I take a walk out on your compound and have ourselves an old-fashio?" "That would be fitting, wouldn't it?" "But surely you can think of a more clever way out of this camp than that." "Yes?" "You think the war will wait for you?" "Is that it, Colonel?" "It won't, you know." "They never do." "You're drunk." "Yeah." "But I'm seeing things very clearly." "You know, sometimes I think your Lieutenant Scott might have been better off in Alabama." "Lynchings are over in minutes." "The kind of justice he's suffering here is far crueler." "Is that why you gave Lieutenant Hart the manual?" "I was merely trying to help the lad." "He's got enough to worry about without providing you with amusement." "Yes." "And he's got you to worry about, hasn't he?" "Stay out of our business." "Forgive me, Colonel, but you're hardly in a position to hand out orders." "Especially to me." "For now." "(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS RUMBLING)" "Unless, of course, you think that's just the sound of propaganda falling out there." "SCOTT:" "Well, the idea was to fd and catch him on the compound." "I wanted to drag him back under the barracks and put his face ." "But by the time I got to him, he was already dead, behind the ." "His neck had been snapped." "That's when everything blew up." "Dogs, you know, "Hands up!" And that was that." "Lieutenant, did you apply anything to your face or hands before going out that night?" "Shoe polish?" "Soot?" "No." "Defense exhibit one, Your Honor." "Photos of the deceased taken in the camp morgue." "The court will note black smudges on Bedford's right cheek and jaw." "SISK:" "Your Honor, what is the relevance of this?" "To demonstrate to the court that whoever killed Vic Bedford was white." "I'd like to ask the court's permission to conduct a demonstration, Your Honor." "I'd also ask the trial judge advocate to rise, if he would." "JUDGE:" "Proceed." "Based on Bedford's wounds, and the fact nobody reported hearing him cry for help that night, we have to assume that he was either friendly with his assailant, or that whoever killed him did so from behind," "the positioning being something ." "Captain, if you wouldn't mind grg at me, at my face, to get me to ." "Now, of course, the killer had ts ." "So the neck was snapped and Bedford fell." "And the smudge went with him." "It was also on his fingers." "Capt?" "At this time I would like the coe ." "Whoever killed Vic Bedford had such a substance on his face on the night of the murder." "Which raises two questions." "First, what call would Lincoln St ?" "To look more black?" "Second, if he had done so, when ?" "Your Honor, you stood face-to-face with him immediately after his capture." "His face was clean." "I think it's fair to conclude that whoever killed Vic Bedford was not only white, but was waiting behind this theater, face blackened to avoid detection by the guards." "Nothing further, Your Honor." "Lieutenant, you say that Sergeant Bedford sneaked out through a loose board beneath th." "Is that right?" "Yes, sir." "And you took that same route on the night in question after he'd gone out?" "Yes, I did, sir." "What did you find down there, Lieutenant?" "Excuse me, sir?" "What was down there on the ground?" "Mud, right?" "You stated that it had been your intention to put the victim's face in the d until he begged you to stop." "So there was mud down there." "Isn?" "I suppose so." "And a fair amount of soot from t?" "So it's possible that Sergeant B, having descended through a hole lt and then having crawled face down beneath a barracks wet with mud, might have emerged with mud and t ." "Nothing further, Your Honor." "Thank you, Captain Sisk." "You may step down, Lieutenant." "Lieutenant Scott?" "You know how hard they tried to wash us out of flight school?" "The colored fliers?" "Your testimony's been entered, L." "You can step down." "It was test after test." "I mean, anything they could come up with to turn us into the cooks, or the drivers, or the shit-shovellers." "Your Honor, this is highly unnec." "." "But I refused to wash out." "So did Archer." "I mean, come hell or high water, we hit the books." "We were just determined that we were not gonna spend the war being some niggers." "That's enough, Lieutenant." "You will take your seat." "With all due respect, sir," "I would like to exercise my right and address this court." "Now, I've been sitting down ever since I got here." "And, you know, I should have stood up and said something the moment that you threw us in with the enlisted men instead of quartering us properly as officers." "But it's okay." "You see, colored men expect to have to jump through a few hoops in this man's army." "Archer knew that." "We all did." "There's a camp, right outside of Macon, where I'm from." "And there the army sends the German POWs." "Puts them to work picking cotton." "But what's strange is every once in a while we'd see them walking through town, going to movies, eating in diners." "But if I wanted to go to those same movies," "I had to sit way off in the balcony." "A-and those diners were closed to me, even in uniform." "But German POWs were allowed to sit there and eat." "And this must have happened to at least half the guys at Tuskegee." "But the thing is, we just kept ts , as long as we did our jobs, it'd all be worth it, because, hey, the war would end, and we could go home and be free to walk down any street in America," "with our heads held high, as men." "So that's what we did." "We did our jobs." "We served our country, sir." "Archer and I." "And what you let happen to him, what you allowed to happen to him," "was appalling." "And so is this." "(DOOR OPENS)" "At ease, Lieutenant." "(WIND WHISTLING)" "How are they treating you?" "No worse than the men in my barracks, sir." "I could probably find you another blanket." "No, I'm fine." "Good night." "(DISTANT EXPLOSION SOUNDS)" "(MEN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "(MEN COUGHING)" "(GAVEL POUNDING)" "McNAMARA:" "Come to order, gentl." "HART:" "Before you proceed, Your Honor, the defense hasn't rested yet." "I'd still like to call one last witness." "Defense calls Oberst Werner Visser." "Is this some kind of joke, Lieutenant?" "He's material to our case, sir." "Unless, of course, the Colonel refuses to testify." "He does not." "Colonel, could you tell us the nature of your relationship with Vic Bedford?" "I'll be happy to." "I didn't have ." "And what about your guards, Colonel?" "Major Fussel, for instance." "Were you aware of his dealings with Vic Bedford?" "At night?" "After lockdown?" "That would be impossible in this." "." "Do you remember the conversation we had in the camp morgue four days ago?" "Vaguely." "I asked you if you knew Vic Bedford, and you said," ""No, but my guards certainly seem to."" "Perhaps." "So, in your words, no guard ever traded with Vic Bedford, and yet he was able to acquire winter boots, thick socks, fresh milk, and par." "Isn't that a fact?" "Lieutenant, I'm sitting here as a gesture of military courtesy." "If it is your intention to paint me as a liar..." "No, Colonel." "It is my intention to establish that Vic Bedford built up enough of a rapport with your Majors Wirtz and Fussel to engage in the framing of Lamar Archer, conspiring with them in the tent spike incident, which resulted in Archer's death." "Lieutenant Archer was shot while attempting escape." "No, Colonel." "Lieutenant Archer was executed in return for information." "Archer dies." "Five minutes later, Colonel Visser and Major Wirtz enter Barracks 22, and destroy a hidden radio that they had been trying to loc." "Can you tell the court anything about these items, sir?" "Identification papers, some currency." "What of them?" "Perfect German-made ID papers." "And Reichsmarks." "Two thousand of them." "More than enough cash to make it through the country." "Vic Bedford kept those in the stash beside his bunk." "And again, can you tell the court the nature of your relationship with Vic Bedford?" "I did not have one..." "Then do you have any idea how hey ?" "If they didn't come from you, and if he never had any dealings with your guards." "The fact is, Colonel, Vic Bedford traded with you and your men regularly." "Objection, Your Honor!" "As soon as he came up dry on you, you ordered his murder." "Objection, Your Honor." "Isn't that right, Colonel?" "Lieutenant Hart," "I thought you tried marvelously to establish that the killer hadd ." "Now, if any of my guards, or eve, wanted to kill one of my prisone," "Vic Bedford in this case, we would hardly need to blacken ." "Would we?" "(MAN COUGHING)" "(MEN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "Move." "Get in the corner, Webb." "Captain?" "You see?" "German uniforms." "Explosives." "Yes, Captain." "I see." "The trial's got nothing to do wi?" "No." "It's the way it had to go." "We're out of time, Hart." "We lose this theater tomorrow." "Uh-huh." "And I'm supposed to keep Visser and his men distracted while half the camp goes out?" "Is that it, Captain?" "I'm asking the wrong fucking guy." "I've just seen the tunnel, Colonel." "In here, Lieutenant." "Everything in this place is a lie." "Everything." "Oh, Jesus Christ." "First he told the Germans about the radio." "It was only a matter of time before he told them about the tunnel." "You killed Bedford." "That's right." "And if you fuck with this operation in any way, I'll kill you, too." "You will sit in that courtroom as Captain Sisk drags out these proceedings." "Make whatever summation you like." "But that's it." "When that board breaks to deliberate, 35 men go under the wire." "And Lincoln Scott will be dead." "That's war, Lieutenant." "The war's at the front, Colonel." "!" "Speak for yourself!" "You know those Russians they marn ?" "You know where they go?" "Munitions plant." "And the army thinks it's a godda." "Look," "I don't want to see Scott dead any more than you do." "But if one man has to be sacrificed to take out that target, then that's the way it has to be." "I agree completely, sir." "Good." "But I think that one man should be you." "And don't worry, I'll play my part." "But at the end of the trial, you're going to tap your little gavel, you're going to stand up and you're going to confess to the murder." "Your duty demands that!" "Fuck you, Hart!" "What the fuck would you know abo?" "I'll see you in court, sir." "GUARD:" "Attention!" "(WHISTLE BLOWS)" "(GUARD QUESTIONING IN GERMAN)" "I got a better question." "What was in that goddamn soup last night?" "I got 20 men with food poisoning." "(GROANS)" "Colonel!" "Colonel." "You're in no shape for the trial, sir." "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Here we go." "We'll convene as scheduled, afte." "Square them up." "MAN:" "Barracks!" "Attention!" "Come to order, gentlemen." "Captain Sisk, is the prosecution ready to present its summation?" "We are, Your Honor." "Very well." "McNAMARA:" "I'm sorry, gentlemen." "Court needs a five-minute recess before summations." "Colonel?" "Colonel?" "Let's get him back to the barracks." "Get his coat." "You should get some rest, sir." "All right." "Come on." "Back to the barracks." "We need an extension, Colonel." "He's very ill." "The agreement was the end of the week." "It's a matter of courtesy, Colonel!" "The agreement was today!" "I need to talk to you." "You any good at poker, Lincoln?" "There's an escape going to take e ." "Escape?" "How's that?" "Down a tunnel, through that burne." "While the jury's in deliberation." "So what, you mean this whole thing's been a joke?" "Yes." "But Archer and Bedford are dead for real." "Is that part of this big joke, too?" "Look, we haven't got time now." "During deliberations you're goint under the wire with 35 other men." "Is McNamara, too?" "Yeah." "McNamara, too." "It's funny, I was just writing my son." "And in the letter I was trying to explain to him what the word "honor" means." "Be a hell of a thing, wouldn't it?" "To find out that your father helped 35 men escape from a place like this?" "Wouldn't it?" "You're going out, too, Lincoln." "You got that?" "I can't do that, Tommy." "Suppose the board comes back and there's nobody sitting in the defendant's chair, then what?" "It doesn't matter." "You'll alread." "Then the search begins." "And all those men, they won't have a chance." "Lincoln, if you stay, you'll be convicted." "If I stay, those men are gonna have a chance." "And you'll be executed." "Lincoln, listen to me." "Please." "Everything's fine, Tommy." "Everything's really okay." "Just as long as he knows what happened here." "As long as there's somebody to tell him." "How far could I get, anyway?" "A colored man running through th." "It'd be target practice." "SISK:" "It started with a noble ." "Letting colored men join the fight." "But no one in the Air Corps ever considered what might happen if one of those Tuskegee men eve." "No one ever asked what would happen if a colored officer was suddenly captured and sent to a stalag like this one." "But Lincoln Scott was shot down, and he was sent to a stalag." "And once here, he wasn't just thrown in amongst white enlisted men, he was quartered with them." "Men like Staff Sergeant Vic Bedford." "Bedford, the real Bedford, was a man unknown to us." "Hateful, vengeful, with a bigotry that ran bone-deep." "A man who simply couldn't stomach the thought of sharing a roof with colored officers." "So he badgered Scott, baited him, even refused to respect Scott's rank, then conspired to kill the only friend Scott had in this camp." "That's why Scott followed Bedford out on the night in question, crept ," "and snapped his neck." "Members of the board, we take noe in prosecuting Lieutenant Scott." "But a capital charge requires that we put aside our passions , wedding ourselves solely to the truth." "It is this." "Lieutenant Scott was positively, and unimpeachably identified a." "He had motive, he had opportunity, and he had an animus for the victim which was confirmed even by his own testimony." "Lincoln Scott is an officer." "He is a soldier." "But he is also a murderer." "There's a tenet that was drummed into all of us from our first day in basic." "Sometimes one man must be sacrificed for the good of the men around him." "Someone has to be first to hit the beach, or to jump on a grenade, or to draw enemy fire so coordinates can be drawn for mortar teams." "Vic Bedford learned that tenet, too." "Except Vic got it backwards." "Vic thought that sometimes a few hundred must be sacrificed for the good of one." "Him." "For Vic, the watchword was exped." "One day, he'd trade with our captors to get hard-to-find parts for a radio, earning him the loyalty of our commanding officer and his staff." "And then Vic would tell the Germans where to find that radio," "Go!" "in exchange for the murder of Lamar Archer." "The army has its share of cowards." "And Vic Bedford was one of them." "It also has heroes." "Soldiers like Lincoln Scott." "Lincoln Scott, who wanted nothing more than to serve his country." "And serve he did." "Nine downed German fighters." "30 missions." "Until one of those missions landed him here, Stalag 6A." "Where Vic Bedford and the sad sacks" "Bedford called friends were lying in wait." "Scott was a target from the second he got here." "He suffered insults, threats." "But he did not retaliate." "He did not kill Vic Bedford." "No." "Someone beat him to it." "It could have been any number of people." "A guard who thought that Bedford had cheated him, a fellow Kriegie who discovered Bedford's treachery." "Even one of our ranking officers, as punishment for ratting out that radio." "So this, then, is our victim?" "A bigot." "A traitor." "A rat." "Enemy of every Kriegie in camp." "The question is, who hated him enough to kill him?" "Colonel." "I did." "Wait a minute." "What are you saying, Lieutenant?" "I killed Vic Bedford, sir." "Come on, Colonel." "Come on." "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "I want every man in the compoundt for the execution of Lieutenant ." "Very brave, Ami." "Very brave, indeed." "Colonel, this man has rights." "Not anymore." "This court still has to deliberate on the matter." "I am the court now!" "Out!" "Get them up." "Get them up." "Get them up." "Get out, get out, get out." "(MAN YELLING IN GERMAN)" "(MEN SHOUTING IN GERMAN)" "(DOG BARKING)" "(IN GERMAN)" "(IN GERMAN)" "(SPEAKS GERMAN)" "I want every man who participated in that court martial removed from the line!" "(SPEAKING GERMAN)" "Colonel, I demand..." "Silence!" "Line them up for execution!" "Line them up!" "Now!" "These men knew nothing!" "VISSER:" "That's quite a comfort. ." "Line them up!" "You will be the first!" "These men knew nothing." "You will be the first!" "Colonel, they knew nothing!" "(IN GERMAN)" "(MAN SPEAKING GERMAN ON LOUDSPEAKER)" "(EXPLOSION)" "So, your men are saboteurs as well." "McNAMARA:" "No, Colonel." "They're j." "They were following my orders." "I assume complete responsibility." "That's very noble of you." "Seems you've won our duel after all, Colonel." "No." "We both lose, don't we?" "Yeah." "And now you wish to trade your life for theirs?" "Yes, I do." "Very well." "(GUN FIRES)" "(MAN CHATTERING IN GERMAN)" "HART:" "We buried the Colonel ine ." "Three months later, the German." "Our stalag was liberated." "The war was over." "We returned home to America, t, where Lincoln Scott got the chn ." "Honor and courage." "Duty." "Sacrifice." "Lincoln's son came to understad ." "And so have I."