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- Squadron Leader Bartlett (Richard Attenborough), after three months in the hands of the Gestapo and SS, is returned to the care of the Luftwaffe, in a new camp under the command of Colonel von Luger (Hannes Messemer). It is very clear that the Colonel, a distinguished veteran and stickler for the rules of war, does not have a lot of time for the SS or the Gestapo, or anyone who mistreats his prisoners. Based on the real commander of Stalag III, who also had no stomach for brutal Nazi tactics, von Luger goes to show that not everyone in the Third Reich was a total bastard.
PS - some quick movie trivia... the SS officer in this scene later played another rather nasty Nazi in "The Guns of Navarone". Seems Messemer wasn't the only one to be routinely typecast.
"The Great Escape"
Released 1963 - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Love how von Luger subtly shows his contempt for the SS and Gestapo.
And it should have been Germans like Von Luger who were employed by the occupation forces. Unlike Patton who hired ex Nazis
and even Hitler as well
My understanding is that the actor who played him had been captured by the Russians during the war, but had escaped.
I don’t care how many times I have seen this movie, I can always sit down and watch it again
Just hate it when the allies some got capture shot killed and the ending!
No hard feelings I like the Great Escape game 2003 much better!
@@JohnFleming-sw7hn Steve McQueen was lucky the Gestapo or the SS did not capture him he would have ended like Squadron Leader Bartlett.
Hate the gestapo all you want, but you have to admit that guy knows how to close a briefcase.
And in Indiana jones how to hang up his coat with a collapsible coat hanger.
@@cliffowens3629is he the same actor from indiana jones?
With you 100 percent on that. Along the same line, a great sense of efficiency comes about when decisively clicking the heels. Safer than a stick up the rectum.
Zieg!
@@josephmullin5845
Are you referring to the modular coat hanger? His son.
@@jorgefiguerola1239 the actor who played preissen.
Love the way that GESTAPO guy snaps that brief case shut.
I looked this up, JUST for that reason... The way he slams it closed... Very efficient, very organized, very thorough...
@@daytona1073 ...and very German.
I hope to someday snap my briefcase shut with the same class and precision
@@tristandunn4761 😂
The two Gestapo-goons were played by Hans Reiser and Ulrich Beiger (the half-bald who has perfected the brief case snapping), two german actors and especially Ulrich Beiger played the shady slimy villains in a bunch of Edgar Wallace thrillers and he did a great job doing that. A very well acted scene. Great to watch.
Watched this great film many times, but only just realized the full significance of Von Luger’s pause before his reluctant recitation of ‘Heil Hitler’: he briefly sets down his rubber stamp, indicating that he is merely a functionary, with no love for Hitler or Naziism.
Not a rubber stamp--- a desk blotter.
The Luftwaffe were part of thr Wermacht of the German army. They didn't get along at all with the SS and Gestapo branch. The SS and Gestapo were right hand men to Hitler. They're disfunction was just one of the many things that led to the crumble of the Third Reich.
The officer he is portraying was so horrified by the murders he allowed the prisoners to erect a memorial.
The $20 pause of Z ss officer before he walks out says all. He's horrified.
The officer he was based on hated the Nazis. Before being made commandant of the pow camp he’d tried to resign from the military. He was happy at the camp because he was in a position where he wasn’t doing anything that directly benefited the Nazis. Both his men and the POWs respected him greatly and he and his deputy both agreed they would face execution themselves than execute any of their prisoners if Hitler had ordered it.
After the war he donated the memorial stone for the escapees the Gestapo shot.
Von Luger was arrested by the Gestapo but feigned insanity and was released, he survived the war and his former prisoners testified in his favor and he was released and lived a decent life.
I think Georing wanted to Court-Martial him but sent him to the Eastern front instead.
that guy has mastered the sass of the brief case open and close...
Easily one of my favourite scenes from this film. Messemer as Von Luger being a tough yet intelligent Commandant jousting with SS/Gestapo goons is really priceless.
There are so many great scenes in this film. I love this film because it is done in old school movie making. No crazy camera moves. No frenetic editing. Just great big grand wide master shots where they let the actors act. I nearly always watch this movie on Christmas eve or some time during the holidays' it has become a tradition. When they have finished the tunnel and they're all getting ready to go and Elmer Bernstein's music goes into the "Its Time" music. I get chills. Every time. And i've seen the film 1000x.
I read Messesmer was not a formaly trained actor. He just was very naturally gifted and my goodness did he ever nail this role. 👌
Hannes Messemer was in the film for only 10 minutes, yet he made every millisecond count with his great line delivery and body language. He deserved an Oscar nomination at the very least.
100%
Von Luger has a Pour Le Merite-probably an ace from WW1 and squadron commander during WW2 until the Luftwaffe grounded him for one reason or another. Probably a good frontline officer with contempt for these rear echelon Nazi goons. The long pause he gave to the Gestapo and SS agents for a Hitler salute was just Von Luger intentionally making them wait and also showing the reserve many German officers of noble descent had.
Please put your hands together and give a clap for Hannes Messemer who played Colonel von Luger. He did an amazing great escape himself - escaping from the Russians on the eastern front and heroically making it back all the way to Germany in WWII, an escape successfully carried out by few Germans.
That's why in this clip he takes his time saying Heil Hitler, unlike the Gestapo personnel.
@@esmeephillips5888 the look on the Gestapo and SS personnel's faces was priceless especially Herr Kuhn.
@@geraldjohnson4013 google the man who plays him here. Another German pow. Forget now of either the Russians or British. Have to reread on him.
A handful of the actors in this film served in WWII. Til Kiwe (one of the guards) was another german soldier who was held in an american camp in Colorado. He also made several attempts to escape, going as far as dyeing his uniform with vegetable juice and getting to St. Louis before being recaptured.
Seargent Schultz also had good reason to hate the Nazis
2:11 Class acting, the raw emotion that he lets slip in his voice for that moment
Agree!
Even though he was the enemy I always had a soft spot for Von Luger (Hannes Messemer) he seemed like a sympathetic character. He didn't have a cold heart. The rest of z SS goons had drunk the coolaide.
roquefortfiles the real life counterpart was an aristocrat and WW1 war hero, with deeply held beliefs about honor. He was not a part of the Nazi ideology.
That's the way I felt about him. He was a decent man. I felt so sad at the end of the movie when he was marched out, knowing his outcome
@@tommym321 Von Lindeiner. Georing wanted to court-martial him but I think he ended up in the Volksturm.
The real commandant actually liked the IRL British officer and used his influence with a relative in high command to get him released from the Gestapo who wanted to execute him for being a saboteur.
It looks like he is wearing a Blue Max around his neck area.
A rare depiction of interservice rivalry and resentment. A lot of Germans disliked the Nazis and a lot of Nazis didn't like each other. See also "The Cross of Iron".
Colonel von Luger was not a Nazi, just a German in the service of his country. There were many Germans like him, who detested Hitler, the Gestapo, the SS, the Nazi party and everything they stood for. Unfortunately those forgotten Germans are not shown enough in films today. The character of Colonel von Luger is a great representation of them.
Ahhh, how sweet.
Really? All oblivious to the atrocities Adolf was involved with and all jolly decent sorts?
Yeah, right.....
The trouble is they didn't really exist. I like this film, but unfortunately it helps to perpetuate the Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht. It is really difficult to argue that its personnel were "just in service of their country." The Wehrmacht was a function of the state and that state was a brutal fascist regime. Its members were ideologically indoctrinated and motivated like the SS. Not only did all branches of the Wehrmacht participate with the SS, but it was complicit in the actions of war crimes perpetrated by the SS. Two years ago Germany's Minister of Defense Annegret Kamp-Karrenbauer put it best when she said, "[T]he simple Wehrmacht soldier may have fought bravely, but if his bravery served an ideology of conquest, occupation and annihilation, then it served nothing." I am not sure that von Luger was an exception.
@@mikeoyler2983 Agreed. The German Nation willingly accepted the Nazi regime from 1933 and showed no resistance even to the very end. There were of course several attempts to assassinate Hitler but only when it was clear the war was lost. The irony of Nazi Germany of 1933-45 was that it was the only time in the entire history of the Germans that they were truly united. That is the real position of German history, to their everlasting shame.
@@mikeoyler2983 This is all true. But it's impossible to know what oneself would do in similar circumstances. We'd all like to believe that we'd be the brave, defiant hero, but push comes to shove, a rare few ever are. I can only hope that I'd be that brave guy, but I can't know it until I'm tested. How many of us go along with a tyrannical boss at times when it's just a paycheck at stake, not your and your family's life?
Takes a lot of balls to raise your voice to the SS.
Well he's no Col. Klink 😅
I know what you mean but the SS officer I this scene is the allied equivalent of a Captain, several ranks below a Colonel it’s doesn’t mater what branch of the armed forces you in, Rank wins and the junior SS should never speak to a Luftwaffe Colonel like he did. Great scene though!
@@ratscabies8458You don't understand how the Nazi government worked. The SS overruled the military.
This scene makes it obvious that Von Luger is more human than Preissen or Herr Kuhn.
For one thing he's wearing the Pour le Merite around his neck, the highest medal a WW1 German Air Force pilot could receive. And for whatever reason, during WW1 there was a lot of respect given to enemy air force officers since most of them came from Aristocratic backgrounds. The commandant had just met with Group Captain "Ramsey," and his position was made pretty clear during their conversation. Then when Roger is brought in, first he sternly tells the SS Officer that "Air Force Officer prisoners are the responsibility of the Luftwaffe, NOT THE SS!!! Or the Gestapo." He tells his adjutant to make a note of Herr Kuhn's suggestion, then as soon as they leave he has the handcuffs taken off of Roger and ignores the Gestapo's suggestion to keep him under the strictest security. The Luftwaffe hated the SS and the Gestapo, just like the entirety of the military hated Hitler's brownshirts (the SA) before he had them killed or incorporated into the SS. Even the Allied officers knew that if they had to bail out over occupied territory and were in a position where there was no choice but to surrender, they would rather surrender to the Luftwaffe than the SS or Gestapo since they knew they would be sent to a Luftwaffe POW camp.
@@Michelle-ju6vs You can just say SS; since the Gestapo were a branch of the SS during the war.
"Squadron Leader Bartlett has been three months in your care and the Gestapo has only reason to believe." In your care...
that is proper. in german language the words for what parents or nurses do and for some kind of custody is the same: Obhut.
Notice the sarcastic way von luger says that to kuhn.
This scene perfectly portrays the tension between the old imperial military establishment (Von Luger) and the new kids on the block (the SS, Gestapo, the Nazis in general)
The posturing during this power play is fantastic!
RIP Sir Richard Attenborough another great actor gone to heaven :(
Part of him went to Hell for playing Christie.
i didnt know he had been an actor. I only know him as director ("a bridge too far", "Gandhi").
@@michaelmeier7224 Attenborough directed CHAPLIN, too. And plays the old man scientist who cloned the dinosaurs back to life in JURASSIC PARK.
He was Santa in the remake of 'Miracle on 34th Street', and the mad scientist in 'Jurassic Park'. Also Steve McQueen's pal in 'The Sand Pebbles'.
@Paddy O'Yakkin no, he is Squadron Leader Bartlett
The real name of Richard Attenborough’s character is Bushell. Roger Bushell. And he was South African.
Rest in peace Richard Attenborough a legend passes
RIP to almost the entire cast really i do believe out of the main actors only David McCALLUM survives !! ENJOY!!
@@pvtrichter8816dead now
@@chrisbaldwin3609 Yes he is , now i recall his performance on NCIS as Dr.'' DUCKY ''Mallard . RIP to him 🙏
Just a pedantic point but they could have done this scene in German as Squadron Leader Roger Bushell (Bartlett) was fluent in German with a Swiss accent.
Apart from organising the escape from Stalag Luft 3 that is why he was in the first groups to get out as having the best chance of success.
Even with that he knew the chance of getting home were minimal and he also knew he would be shot if he was recaptured but he still went ahead.
Brave man
His girlfriend in England 🏴 put a love note in the times on his birthday for the rest of her life 😢
I didn't know that part about his girlfriend. She certainly paid her price for having a pilot as a boyfriend, and from the looks of it Bartlett was the love of her life. I suspect that she never married and died a Spinster. It was a similar story for a lot of female signallers who served in the Australian Army Z Force Signals here in Melbourne, Australia. They had had to much responsibility and independence as Sargents and seen too many good men go off and never return to simply marry a soldier and become the little housewife at home.
@@markfryer9880 Actually, she had married twice in her life, but she certainly cared about Roger. Her name was Lady Georgiana Mary Curzon Kidston
RIP Squadron Leader Bartlett aka Richard Attenborough! He joins Steve McQueen in the heaven of the stars!
One of the greatest movies of all time!
a good entertaining movie for sure but very little of the movie was true, for example, there was only one american in this POW camp and he was a pilot for the RAF, the rest were Canadians, Aussies, Kiwi's, South Africans, UK, Greek.
2323winston Typical Hollywood movie...need to “park” your brain at the door before going to see the movie!
Rest in peace, Mr. Attenborough.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Richard Attenborough's one badass actor. No wonder he's a war vet.
Great! One of my favourite films.Love Richard Attenborough;he's great in everything!
he gave us GHANDI and CHAPLIN and was the best SANTA CLAUS no joke!! RIP to a legend and the whole cast except for one [guess who!?] have all left us !!
Agreed! He should had gotten nominated! His performance as Roger is SO captivating with its commanding and sympathetic leadership. It's hard to picture Richard Harris in the role. He was originally going be Roger. Attenborough was cast last minute.
@@angelaeden9218 I'm also glad that Harris lost out to Attenborough for the part, because Harris was not yet a good enough actor for a role of such depth and gravitas; but Harris would steadily improve his acting chops as time went on. It's simply that Harris wasn't ready, just yet, to do this role justice!
RIP Dickie.
Always the gentleman
There's a small irony here since the guy in the long leather jacket ends up getting shot by Bartlett before Bartlett himself gets shot so this guy wouldn't be seeing his threat come true...
Actually he was shot by Ashley Pitt after he realized that he recognized Bartlett at the bus station.
Rest in peace fellow Bartlett.
Some great lines in this movie:
"To cross the wire is death!"
"250! 250 guys just walkin' down the road."
"Don't get any on your clothes. Try not to smoke too soon after drinking it."
"Ives. Oh yes, Archibald Ives. The picture doesn't do you justice."
"Ives, what do they call a mole in Scotland?" "A mole."
"That's a hell of a lot of timber, Roger."
The real Commandant Oberst Von Lindeiner was an officer of the old school who did his best to run Stalag Luft III in accordance with the Geneva Convention. I think he was court-martialed by order of Georing after the escape.
Goering got his come uppance.
oh yeah.
I wonder if we can in similar cases differentiate between the SD/Getsapo and the Waffen-SS field Divisions concerning attitudes towerd western allied POWs. I was thinking of the chivalrous treatment UK POWS by men of the Hohenstauffen Division under Bittrich. Then again there is Malmedy.
There is some good reason too believe that Malmedy may have involved at least in part a rush by some or all of the POW's for the woods or even the guards themselves and panic/pack mentality took over. Not uncommon in massacres... but still a massacre is a massacre.
He was arrested after the war and was so pissed that 50 were shot was more than willing to help the Allies bring the shooters to justice. It has to be noted that the Allied Prisoners at his trial stated he treated them humanely and was acquitted of all charges.
Hannes Edwin Messemer (Oberst von Luger, the Kommandant) was an authentic German soldier born on 17 May 1924 in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany and served on the Eastern Front. Messemer was conscripted in 1942 and sent to Stalingrad as punishment for failing to obey orders. He was captured by the Soviets but managed to escape in 1945, making his way back to Germany on foot.
A heavy lifelong smoker, Messemer suffered throat cancer during the 1980s, and surgery left his voice at only a whisper. Forced to retire from acting, he appeared on German television for the last time in 1989 in a production with Agnes Fink.
Hannes Edwin Messemer died of a heart attack on 2 November 1991, aged 67, in Aachen, Städteregion Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Germany and was buried there. He was married four times and had two daughters.
The Kommandant didn't like the SS or the Gestapo
I always liked Christopher Reeve, and what happened to him was tragic. HOWEVER....when they came out with the sequel to this film as a TV movie, "The Great Escape II:The Untold Storey", back in 1988, he criticized the original. He was interviewed and was negative about the script, the acting (specifically Charles Bronson's claustrophobia in the tunnel), and that it was done as a bunch of guys getting together and throwing the film together. Where as "HIS" film was more thought out and well written. The Great Escape is a classic and Reeve should have never criticized it.
Bronson was a former miner, and in ww2 a B-29 rear gunner, he said himself that he did have claustrophobia at some times especially in the rear turret because of rats in the aircraft.. Apparently he advised on the construction of the tunnel sets.
The quick cut to the guy's reaction after Von Luger says (almost as one word) "Not the SS" always struck me as funny
Pour moi, LE meilleur film sur la seconde guerre mondiale. Je l'ai vu et revu et ne m'en lasse pas.
I know it's only a movie but
Von lugger was fair almost
A bit soft
Like Baraclough in Porridge
After this incident it was made
Quite clear that any more
Escape attempts will be dealt
With more severely
And then we.come.to the most
Infamous part.of the film
A gem of a movie
Classic film
R.I.P. Richard Attenborough
German, Austrian and Swiss actors speaking impeccable English is always a treat. But note one of the prison guards speaks impeccable yet accented American English. I believe that actor spent time in Colorado as a POW, escaped, and was caught farther into the American Midwest.
RIP Richard Attenborough
a great movie often Funney in parts
Richard Attenborough?
NO NO NO.
" SIR " Richard Attenborough,Please.
Germans: If you try to escape you will be killed.
Bartlett: (immediately begins planning an escape)
The prison wasn’t big enough to contain his enormous balls.
Bushell was apparently a mining engineer from South Africa
Bartlett should have heeded that warning the Gestapo never makes ideal threats.
Yes, l agree with you- his arrogance got him and many others killed
If a criminal and a murderer acts like a criminal and a murderer, that is their issue. An office like Bartlett (Bushnell) will do his duty anyway. The alternative would be to let the bad guys win.
1963
The motion picture movie film "The Great Escape" (1963) was one of my father's favorite films. My father agreed with my assessment that the squadron Leader Roger Bartlett "Big X" (Richard Samuel Attenborough (1923 - 2014) portraying Roger Joyce Bushell (1910 - 1944)) was given fair warning.
fair warning for what? this was a threat, saying they were ready to commit warcrimes.
Fair warning? Allow me to educate you on the legalities of this situation. According to the Rules and Articles of Land Warfare, as well as the Geneva Conventions, it is the DUTY of every captured military person to escape and rejoin his forces if at all possible. If escape is NOT possible, then it is the DUTY of those prisoners to cause the enemy to use an inordinate amount of resources and personnel to guard them, thereby placing a drain on the enemies resources. It is also, according to the RALW and the GC, illegal to inflict 'harsh or unusual' punishment on prisoners for attempting to escape. Telling Bartlett he would be killed if he attempted another escape was essentially telling him "We will kill you if you dare to perform your military and legal duty under international law." Sorry, but Bartlett was acting in accordance with both military and international law and giving him 'fair warning' does not condone or excuse the criminal action of executing an escaped prisoner, which is in itself a MAJOR violation of international law. It's sad that you and your father seemingly want to justify the Nazis slaughter of 50 Allied soldiers and airmen for simply doing their duty.
Is it just me or do the Luftwaffe and zee SS not like each other.
i'm pretty sure every branch of the german military disliked the ss.
Not to mention a few civilians
Also Including Wehrmacht and Kreigsmarine
@@daveslark And the Heer?
@@huskyfaninmass1042 yes
He escaped again and went to live in London at 10 rillington place !
Can't you put all these little bits together so we can watch the whole film?
Buy the DVD or stream it
What does von Luger say at 2:12?
take off that things...he means the handcuffs
Wait until he got to meet Hilts.
Is it just me or did Herr Kuhn leave without his pen?
Wait the that guy standing next to the desk didn't doit
My name sake
0:26: Herr Kuhn mispronounces suggest as "suh chet". When von Luger says "make a note of Herr Kuhn's suggestion," what does someone else say at 0:34?, sounds like "Hilts".
Luger Adjudant says "Jawohl Herr Oberst" and then Kuhn starts to talk again.
It's Captain Posen - von Luger's adjudant, who is standing next to him - accepting the request.
Von Luger: "Make a note of Herr Kuhn's suggestion."
Posen: "Jawohl, Herr Oberst!" (Yes, Colonel!)
Are those German actors all speaking to each other in English or was that dubbed?
Joseph Mullin Well, in this scene they did.. but mostly they speak German to each other.
It is Ja wohl, Colonel. The next line is "We have reason to believe this prisoner is the leader of numerous criminal escape attempts."
How the heck did Bartlett ever get a London Fog raincoat after becoming a POW in Germany?
"Why are we speaking in English?"
Recalling the execution of the fifty captured, and the desperation towards the end, why Von Luger was demoted? Did he break the rules of the Geneva Convention, by going to far? Or did he not respond as pressured by SS/Gestapo?
Anyone?
Peace
JF
He was demoted (and probably executed) because he allowed so many prisoners escape and didn't keep his staff under control. The Geneva Convention wasn't exactly followed by the SS.
Also, one of the reasons the escapees had such good IDs and knowledge of the outside area was because they bribed or convinced some of the Germans at the camp to give them ID to copy and other information.
@@India.H He was court martialed, but not executed. He lived a long life after the war.
In reality the man's name was bushel a south African
Who managed to escape but was recaptured and executed
Being winter and snow everywhere the escapees were
Forced to keep to roads
Only three made it to freedom
23 returned to camp and fifty
Executed
For you the war is over wasn't
Taken seriously escape was the top priority!
Did those German actors all speak English or were they dubbed for the film
They spoke English or learned the English for the film.
so... did the air force look after air force prisoners? and likewise with the other armed forces... just assumed all pow's were treated the same way and chucked in which ever camp had the capacity for them
The German Army dealt with Allied Army prisoners, Luftwaffe with airmen. Hitler once ordered all Allied airmen executed in retaliation for the fire bombing of Dresden but the Luftwaffe refused to follow the order. Unlike concentration camps the Wehrmacht's prisoner camps were inspected by neutral Swiss agents of the Red Cross.
Every country did things their way as I understand it.
Certainly in Nazi Germany each branch of the armed forces were responsible for their prisoners from the same enemy service. The Luftwaffe were responsible for RAF and associated Air Forces, RCAF, RAAF, RNZAF, RSAAF, RRAF. They were also responsible for the growing numbers of USAAF personnel. They would also separate Officers from SGTs and other ranks. The reason for the majority of aircrew in the RAF and USAAF being SGT rank was in order to get better treatment if captured. The thing is that you have to survive being shot down and then landing in a hostile country (Germany), sadly many aircrew didn't survive contact with the German public, and the same thing happened in Japan.
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Major Roger was my favourite character in the film he did his best to get that escape made well but very sad he got captured and executed after near the end of the film right guys
to true mate
@1:37
Should have been done in German with subtitles.
Yeah especially as most if not all the actors who speak in this scene are German. They all seem to have a good grip of the English language.
0:21 1:54
Can't hear it.
TH-cam sucks and *must be abandoned.*
I hear it no problem .
@@malonprowl66hec72
Something happened to my internet volume.
And it is very untoward that I can't find anything about about on the `net.
0:54 is basically my attitude, as a Libertarian Veteran Paratrooper, towards the Biden/Trump Administrations, and their Federal and National Guard assets 😆
The USAA, 2021 😆😆😆🇺🇲
One of the greatest US propaganda movies of all time as there was not one single American involved in the escape. And oh yes, no motorcycle either...
Not technically true, as there were many Americans in the camp, and who participated, but they were transferred to a new camp prior to the night of the breakout.
@@VonArgylle Do some more research. Not one American in any way shape or form involved in the planning or execution. This is a historical fact and not subject to debate.
@@10toMidnight Says the guy who obviously hasn't done his own research, and doesn't know that Americans were present, that work on the tunnels was accelerated to try to get them out before they were moved, and ultimately failed because it could not be done in time. But hey whatever, enjoy your ignorance. I'm not going to get drawn into a pointless TH-cam debate.
history.co.uk/article/the-true-story-of-the-great-escape
archive.is/20070728002454/www.486th.org/photos/Stammlager/KU3738/Stalag3.htm
@@VonArgylle Sure thing. The earth is flat too... You’re muted fool.
@@10toMidnight Ah the entitled mentality of modern kids who can't accept being corrected. Got to love it.
That wimp Von Luger probably would have taken a knee at the games. 😁
Von Luger's no wimp you idiot!!!! Who's side are you on, the Gestapo's?
@@zfox8754 It would seem so. Von Luger was portrayed as an old fashion military man, who had little use for Gestapo and most likely Hitler as well. Of course he was still German, and so if you were British, American or like me Danish, he was the enemy, but he seemed fair and human and trying his best to uphold military honor, under trying circumstances, it cost him his job, and perhaps his life.
@@hannejeppesen2887
That's so true. I'm glad you saw what I saw. I'm actually of German decent so I see his side very well.
I think he did in fact get killed by the Gestapo.
It's so sad to see all the good guys get killed.
Do you live in Denmark?
That is an idiotic statement.
Why do you call him a whimp?! He was a decent man. He probably was shot after removed from the prisoner of war camp. So sad