The Young Lions (1958)
Kurt Katch: Camp Commandant
Quotes
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Camp Commandant : lt's a relief to find someone who still has some sense of discipline left.
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Camp Commandant : How close are the Americans?
Lt. Christian Diestl : Well, I think they are - I don't know - five minutes or five hours.
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Camp Commandant : You know, the Americans may not understand what they see here. They may not know that a German officer - our kind of officer - does what he's ordered to do. Well, we at least know what is important. The courage to stay and face the enemy, and the honor to be able to say, ''I have done my duty for the Fatherland.''
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Camp Commandant : Running a concentration camp is not a picnic. Believe me. With all the gas chambers, target ranges, doctors with their experiments. I had an extermination quota of 1500 people a day. Jews, Poles, Russians, French. Political prisoners. And I had only 260 men to do it. Still I managed it. Then they sent memorandums from Berlin, inspectors running, shouting, "ln Auschwitz, they kill 20,000 a day."
