Sgt. Werner Rachtman Quotes in Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Lt. Aldo Raine: [Drawing a map] Up the road apiece, there's an orchard. Now, besides you, we know there's another kraut patrol fuckin' around there somewhere. Now if that patrol were to have any crackshots, that orchard would be a goddamn sniper's delight. Now, if you ever want to eat a sauerkraut sandwich again, you gotta show me on this here map where they are, you gotta tell me how many there are, and you gotta tell me what kinda artillery they're carrying with 'em.

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: You can't expect me to divulge information that would put German lives in danger.

Lt. Aldo Raine: Well, now Werner, that's where you're wrong, because that's exactly what I expect. I need to know about Germans hiding in them trees, and you need to tell me, and you need to tell me right now. Now, just take that finger of yours and point out on this here map where this party's being held, how many's coming, and what they brought to play with.

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: [puts his hand over his heart] I respectfully refuse, sir.

Lt. Aldo Raine: [a smack is heard offscreen] Hear that?

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: Yes.

Lt. Aldo Raine: That's Sgt. Donny Donowitz. You might know him better by his nickname: "The Bear Jew". Now, if you heard of Aldo the Apache, you gotta have heard of the Bear Jew.

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: I've heard of the Bear Jew.

Lt. Aldo Raine: What d'you hear?

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: He beats German soldiers with a club.

Lt. Aldo Raine: He bashes their brains in with a baseball bat is what he does. Now, Werner, I'm gonna ask you one last goddamn time, if you still respectfully refuse, I'm callin' the Bear Jew over. He's gonna take that big bat of his, and he's gonna beat your ass to death with it. Now, take your wiener schnitzel lickin' finger and point out on this map what I want to know.

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: [after brief pause] Fuck you... and your Jew dogs!

[the Basterds all laugh]

Lt. Aldo Raine: Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to here you say that. Quite frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies. Donny!

Sgt. Donny Donowitz: [from offscreen] Yeah?

Lt. Aldo Raine: We got a German here who wants to die for his country! Oblige him!

[Raine is interrogating Rachtman and poitning out all of his men]

Lt. Aldo Raine: And another one over there, you might be familiar with: Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz. Heard of 'em?

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: Everybody in the German army's heard of Hugo Stiglitz.

[Some of the Basterds laugh, and the camera focuses on Stiglitz; the scene freezes and the words "Hugo Stiglitz" appear on the screen]

Narrator: [voice-over] The reason for Hugo Stiglitz's celebrity among German soldiers is simple. As a German enlisted man, he killed thirteen Gestapo officers.

[Stiglitz is seen strangling one officer with a cord; stabbing another multiple times in the head through a pillow; and asphyxiating one with his bare hands]

Narrator: [voice-over] Instead of putting him up against a wall, the High Command decided to send him back to Berlin, to be made an example of.

[cuts to Stiglitz locked in a cell]

Narrator: Needless to say, once the Basterds heard of him, he never got there.

[One of Raine's men slits a guard's throat; the other Basterds quickly open fire and kill the other guards, then Raine approaches Stiglitz's cell]

Lt. Aldo Raine: Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz?

[Stiglitz nods]

Lt. Aldo Raine: Lt. Aldo Raine. These are the Basterds, ever heard of us?

[Stiglitz nods again]

Lt. Aldo Raine: We just wanted to say we're a big fan of your work. When it comes to killing Nazis...

[one of the guards stirs and groans, and is promptly shot dead on the spot]

Lt. Aldo Raine: ... I think you show great talent. And I pride myself on having an eye for that kind of talent. But your status as a Nazi killer is still amateur. We all come here to see if you wanna go pro.

Sgt. Donny Donowitz: [points to Iron Cross medal with his bat] You get that for killin' Jews?

Sgt. Werner Rachtman: [as-a-matter-of-factly] Bravery...