John Banner credited as playing...
Ernst
- Maj. Jefferson F. Pike: Are you really an army sergeant?
- Sgt. Ernst: Regular army - no. I am too old, too fat! Home guard. We are patrolling the border so then the young, strong, and handsome men can go to Russia and freeze to death. Wonderful system, huh?
- [Laughs]
- Sgt. Ernst: [to Pike and Anna] Now I take you to my house, and I give you something that smells like coffee but tastes like hell!
- Sgt. Ernst: [Taking to Pike and Anna] Oh, you think I'm not loyal to the Fuhrer? But I am. He's a great man.Whatever he tells me to do, I do. He sends messages to the home guard. He says
- [speaking in Hitler's clipped diction]
- Sgt. Ernst: ; 'if the enemy puts a foot on German soil - it is your duty to drive them out'. You are the enemy . I can not 'drive you out' - I have no car. So - I make you walk out
- [heartily laughs]
- Sgt. Ernst: Heil Hitler!
- Sgt. Ernst: [Pike and Anna are asleep in Else's basement, when a torch light shines on their faces and wakes them. Standing there - in an ill-fitting uniform is Ernst]
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- Sgt. Ernst: . Though Ernst seems OK, something about him is updating Pike] Something wrong?
- Maj. Jefferson F. Pike: [Speaking softly] Well, nothing, it's
- [clears his throat]
- Maj. Jefferson F. Pike: ... it's just your uniform. Y-you really an army sargent?
- Sgt. Ernst: Regular army, no.
- [Dejected-sounding]
- Sgt. Ernst: I'm to old. Too fat. 'Home guard'.
- [Happy-sounding]
- Sgt. Ernst: We are patrolling the borders so that the young, strong, and handsome men can go to Russia and freeze to death.