SS Officer Quotes in The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

SS Officer: Herr Oberst Radl? In the name of the Fuhrer, you are under arrest.

Col. Max Radl: May I be permitted to know the charge?

SS officer: [to Sophie] You're so beautiful. I'd like to get you in bed. Are you a Polack? You! Are you also one of those filthy communists?

[walks away]

Sophie: I am a Pole! I was born in Cracow! I am not a Jew. Neither are my children! They're not Jews. They are racially pure. I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian.

[the officer comes back]

SS officer: You are not a communist? You are a believer?

Sophie: Yes sir, I believe in Christ.

SS officer: You believe in Christ the redeemer?

Sophie: Yes.

SS officer: [looks at Sophie's children] Did He not say... "Suffer the children, come unto me?"

[Sophie remains silent]

SS officer: You may keep one of your children.

Sophie: I beg your pardon?

SS officer: You may keep one of your children. The other must go away.

Sophie: You mean, I have to choose?

SS officer: You are a Polack, not a Yid. That gives you a privilege, a choice.

Sophie: I can't choose. I can't choose!

SS officer: Be quiet.

Sophie: I can't choose!

SS officer: Make a choice. Or I'll send both of them over there. Make a choice.

Sophie: Don't make me choose! I can't!

SS officer: Shut up! Enough! I'll send them both over there! I told you to shut up! Make a choice!

Sophie: I can't choose! Please! I can't choose!

SS officer: [to an officer] Take BOTH children away!

[Sophie clings on to her son while the Nazis take her screaming and crying daughter away from her]

Sophie: Take my little girl! Take my baby!

[On Elsa's ad-libbed story about a letter of free conduct.]

Hungarian Nazi: Anyone could say that.

SS Officer: She isn't just anyone, this lady.

[to Elsa]

SS Officer: No one is just anyone, right? Every man is someone... You wouldn't lie to me, would you?

Elsa Tabori: No.

SS Officer: You do know what they have to do with you in case you would lie to me?

Elsa Tabori: Yes.

SS Officer: Well, then...

[to his aide]

SS Officer: She is going back to Budapest. Take the lady to my compartment.

[to the Hungarian Nazi]

SS Officer: And you, put away your weapon.