Major Paul Kreuger Quotes in The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

[Kreuger is offered a last cigarette before he is executed by firing squad. He and the Nazi Officer hear planes]

Major Paul Kreuger: Ours or theirs?

Nazi Officer: Enemy planes, sir.

Major Paul Kreuger: But who is the enemy?

Capt. Otto Baumann: Farce! Where are the bombers? Our reinforcements? This is the most important place in Germany, and what do we have to fight with? Old men, riff-raff, the sweepings from the road.

Major Paul Kreuger: And you, Baumann. Will you fight as hard as you talk?

Capt. Otto Baumann: You will find out when we attack.

Major Paul Kreuger: I understand the Russians are at the Elbe.

Gen. von Brock: Yes.

Major Paul Kreuger: And here?

Gen. von Brock: Worse. Utter confusion. Every day I get orders to attack with divisions that no longer exist. Hitler still thinks he's winning the war.

Major Paul Kreuger: The Army helped bring Hitler into power. Are you saying we made a mistake?

Major Paul Kreuger: So, Captain Baumann, I trust that in the event of an emergency, at least the explosives are in place to blow up the bridge?

Capt. Otto Baumann: Not yet, Herr Major. It is reported that 600 kilos of high explosives are on the way. But perhaps, that TOO is only a rumor.

Major Paul Kreuger: [to General von Brock over the phone asking for reinforcements] Herr General, your regrets will not save the bridge. The two panzer battalions might.

Major Paul Kreuger: Germany has lost four million sons.

Greta Holzgang: I pity them. But I pity most my own son.

Major Paul Kreuger: [Calling on field radio to side of bridge under attack by Americans] Sgt. Becker Sgt. Becker, this is Major Kreuger calling.

Lt. Phil Hartman: [Answers German radio] He's dead, Major!