Von Luger Quotes in The Great Escape (1963)

Von Luger: Are all American officers so ill-mannered?

Hilts: Yeah, about 99 percent.

Von Luger: Then perhaps while you are with us you will have a chance to learn some. Ten days isolation, Hilts.

Hilts: CAPTAIN Hilts.

Von Luger: Twenty days.

Hilts: Right. Oh, uh, you'll still be here when I get out?

Von Luger: [visibly annoyed] Cooler!

Von Luger: It looks, after all, as if you will see Berlin before I do.

Stratwitch: What are you doing over here by the wire?

Hilts: Well, like I told Max here, I was trying to get my...

German Soldier: [Voice] Achtung!

[Von Luger enters]

Von Luger: What were you doing by the wire?

Hilts: Well, like I told Max... I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I want to get out.

Von Luger: In the past four years the Reich has been forced to spend an enormous amount of time, energy, manpower and equipment hunting down escaping prisoner-of-war officers.

Ramsey: Well, at least it's rather nice to know you're wanted.

[the German camp commandant explains why so many incorrigible Allied prisoners were placed in the place Stalag]

Von Luger: We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket. And we intend to watch this basket carefully.

Herr Kuhn: We have reason to believe this prisoner is the mastermind behind numerous criminal escape attempts.

Von Luger: [sarcastically] Squadron Leader Bartlett has been three months in your care! And the Gestapo has only "reason to believe"!

Ramsey: [after hearing complaints about the plethora of escapes] Colonel, do you expect officers to forget their duty?

Von Luger: [reluctantly] No. It is precisely because we expect the opposite that you are here.