Burning Hearts (1945)
Horst Caspar: Gen. Gneisenau
Quotes
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Bürgermeister Nettelbeck : [after Gneisenau asks Nettelbeck to surrender] You weren't born in Kolberg, Gneisenau. You are put here to Kolberg. But we grew up here. We know every stone, every corner every house here. We don't let go. Even if we have to claw in the ground of our city with our nails, we don't let go. First they have to cut off each of our hands or kill us one after the other. Gneisenau, you can't put the whole disgrace on an old man like me. and to give our city to Napoleon. I even promised our king: rather be buried below the ruins that capitulate. Gneisenau, Gneisenau, I never stand on my knees for anyone, now i'm doing it: Kolberg can't be given up, Gneisenau!
Gen. Gneisenau : That's what I wanted to hear from you, Nettelbeck. Now we can die together.
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Gen. Gneisenau : The best devence of a fortress is the attack.
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Gen. Gneisenau : That time in Kolberg I witnessed the hour of birth of the German freedom. When Princes and Kings left their folk.
Frédéric-Guillaume III : Gneisenau, you don't has a good opinion of princes and Kings, right? You don't have a good opinion about me too? Honestly, Gneisenau?
Gen. Gneisenau : Wrong, your majesty. Otherwise I wouldn't stand in front your majesty. But a king has to lead his folk. This is his natural and godgiven task. And if he can't do it, he has to resign.
