"While I'm very familiar with you and your family," "I have no way of knowing if you are familiar with who I am." "Are you aware of my existence?" "Yes." "This is good." "Now, are you aware of the job I've been ordered to carry out in France?" "Yes." "Please tell me what you've heard." "I've heard that the Führer has put you in charge of rounding up the Jews left in France who are either hiding or passing for Gentile." "The Führer couldn't have said it better himself." "But the meaning of your visit, pleasant though it is, is mysterious to me." "The Germans looked through my house nine months ago for hiding Jews and found nothing." "I'm aware of that." "I've read the reports of this area." "But like any enterprise, when under new management, there is always a slight duplication of efforts," "most of it being a complete waste of time, but needs to be done nevertheless." "I just have a few questions, monsieur LaPadite." "If you can assist me with answers, my department can close the file on your family." "Now, before the occupation, there were four Jewish families in this area, all dairy farmers like yourself." "Doleracs, Rollins, the Loveitts and the Dreyfuses." "Is that correct?" "To my knowledge, those were the Jewish families among the dairy farmers." "Herr Colonel, would it disturb you if I smoked my pipe?" "Please, monsieur LaPadite, this is your house, make yourself comfortable." "Now, according to these papers, all the Jewish families in this area have been accounted for except the Dreyfuses." "Somewhere in the last year it would appear they've vanished." "Which leads me to the conclusion that they've either made good their escape or someone is very successfully hiding them." "What have you heard about the Dreyfuses, monsieur LaPadite?" "Only rumors." "I love rumors!" "Facts could be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing." "So, monsieur LaPadite, what rumors have you heard regarding the Dreyfuses? Again, this is just a rumor, but we heard the Dreyfuses had made their way into Spain." "So, the rumors you've heard have been of escape? Yes." "Having never met the Dreyfuses, would you confirm for me the exact members of the household and their names? There were five of them." "The father, Jacob." "Wife, Miram." "And her brother, Bob." "How old is Bob?" "Thirty, 31." "Continue." "And the children," "Amos and Shosanna." "Ages of the children? Amos was nine or 10." "And Shosanna?" "And Shosanna was" "18 or 19." "I'm not really sure." "Well, I guess that should do it." "However, before I go, could I have another glass of your delicious milk?" "But of course." "Monsieur LaPadite, are you aware of the nickname the people of France have given me? I have no interest in such things." "But you are aware of what they call me." "I'm aware." "What are you aware of? That they call you "The Jew H unter."" "Precisely." "I understand your trepidation in repeating it." "Heydrich apparently hates the moniker the good people of Prague have bestowed on him." "Actually, why he would hate the name "the Hangman" is baffling to me." "It would appear he has done everything in his power to earn it." "Now I, on the other hand, love my unofficial title precisely because I've earned it." "The feature that makes me such an effective hunter of the Jews is, as opposed to most German soldiers," "I can think like a Jew where they can only think like a German." "More precisely, a German soldier." "Now, if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and the predatory instinct of a hawk." "But if one were to determine what attributes the Jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat." "The Führer and Goebbels' propaganda have said pretty much the same thing." "But where our conclusions differ, is I don't consider the comparison an insult." "Consider for a moment the world a rat lives in." "It's a hostile world, indeed." "If a rat were to scamper through your front door, right now, would you greet it with hostility?" "I suppose I would." "Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them?" "Rats spread disease." "They bite people." "Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that's some time ago." "I propose to you any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry." "Would you agree? Yet, I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you?" "No." "Yet, they're both rodents, are they not?" "And except for the tail, they even rather look alike, don't they?" "It's an interesting thought, Herr Colonel." "However interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel." "If a rat were to walk in here, right now, as I'm talking would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk?" "Probably not." "I didn't think so." "You don't like them." "You don't really know why you don't like them." "All you know is you find them repulsive." "Consequently, a German soldier conducts a search of a house suspected of hiding Jews." "Where does the hawk look?" "He looks in the barn, he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar, he looks everywhere he would hide." "But there are so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide." "However, the reason the Führer has brought me off my Alps in Austria and placed me in French cow country today is because it does occur to me." "Because I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity." "May I smoke my pipe as well?" "Please, Herr Colonel, make yourself at home." "Now, my job dictates" "that I must have my men enter your home" "and conduct a thorough search before I can officially cross your family's name off my list." "And if there are any irregularities to be found, rest assured they will be." "That is unless you have something to tell me that makes the conducting of a search unnecessary." "I might add, also, that any information that makes the performance of my duty easier will not be met with punishment." "Actually, quite the contrary." "It will be met with reward." "And that reward will be, your family will cease to be harassed in any way by the German military during the rest of our occupation of your country." "You're sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?" "Yes." "You're sheltering them underneath your floorboards, aren't you?" "Yes." "Point out to me the areas where they're hiding." "Since I haven't heard any disturbance," "I assume, while they're listening, they don't speak English." "Yes." "I'm going to switch back to French now, and I want you to follow my masquerade." "Is that clear? Yes." "It's the girl." "Au revoir, Shosanna! ALDO:" "Ten-hut!" "My name is Lieutenant Aldo Raine." "And I'm putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers." "Eight Jewish American soldiers." "Now, you all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon." "Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier." "We're going to be dropped into France dressed as civilians." "Once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhacking guerrilla army, we're going to be doing one thing and one thing only." "Killing Nazis." "I don't know about you all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains,"