The Best Colonel Hauptmann Quotes

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Col. Robert E. Hogan: [entering Colonel Hauptmann's cabin] This area is crawling with patrols. Why did you want to meet here?
Colonel: I can't take any chances!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Well, I certainly took plenty getting down to this broken-down farmhouse.
Colonel: I'm sorry, Colonel, but this is the only place I'm safe. The Gestapo is on to me.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: How'd they find out?
Colonel: The same ways they find out everything. Naturally, I'm finished as a source of information.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Well, I want you to know that you've done a great service to both our countries.
Colonel: Danke Dir.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: What about the location of the submarine pans?
Colonel: I have a detailed map of them all.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Detailed map? Great. Well, I can only promise you your sacrifice will not be in vain.
Colonel: What sacrifice?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: If someone gives up his life for something he believes in, I'd certainly say that was a sacrifice.
Colonel: Why you stupid man! Let's understand each other, Colonel. I have no intention of sacrificing my life for anything. And I also have no intention of giving up the map until I am certain my life is quite safe.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Look, you know the Gestapo. No matter where you hide in this country, your life's gonna be in danger.
Colonel: I'm well aware of that. But I know a trip to London would add years to it. That field outside is big enough to land a plane.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: We're not running an airline between here and England.
Colonel: Where I go, the map goes!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Alright, I'll see what we can do.
Colonel: And how fast it can be done. My nerves are at the breaking point!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: You're the most decorated flyer on the Luftwaffe. You've faced death countless times. Now you act like you're scared stiff.
Colonel: I was scared stiff then, too. Find out about the plane, Hogan!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: It may take a few days. You think you can hold on that long?
Colonel: I'll hold on, but...
[hears approaching footsteps outside the cabin]
Colonel: What was that?
Col. Robert E. Hogan: What?
Colonel: I heard a noise outside.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: I didn't hear anything. You're the most nervous war hero I've ever known.
Colonel: You better get back to the camp. Tell London to hurry!
[Colonel Hogan is about to walk out the door]
Colonel: Use the window!
Col. Robert E. Hogan: Alright, they'll get you out if they can.
[walks towards the window and dumps his stuff out]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: You'll hear from me in a couple of days.
[jumps out the window and leaves]
Col. Robert E. Hogan: [after Colonel Hogan leaves, Hauptmann closes the window and checks the map, which is on the pull-down blind. Gestapo men then burst in and arrest Hauptmann]

Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Where is the map of the submarine pens?
Colonel: It's hidden. Only I can find it and only I am going to deliver it to London.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: You wouldn't want to tell me where it is just in case you had an accident, like walking in front of the firing squad or something?
Colonel: Colonel Klink, my brilliant defense counsel is going to make sure that doesn't happen.
Cpl. Peter Newkirk: Are you kidding? You'll be lucky if he isn't shot with you.