The Road Back (1937)
John 'Dusty' King: Ernst
Quotes
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Willy's Mother : So, it's Ernst is it? What have to been doing to my Willi out there at the front?
Ernst : I? I haven't done anything.
Willy's Mother : Oh yes you have! I send him away a sweet-natured curly-headed boy, and you bring me back a great hulking bald-headed monster!
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Tjaden : Its just goin' on and on. Nobody knows how to stop it now. It's got too big and too old. Might as well try and stop the Rhine.
Ernst : It can't go on.
Tjaden : What, the Rhine?
Ernst : The war. We've no shells, no food. We're bandaging wounds with paper. It's got to stop.
Willy : And you're the man who's going to stop it I suppose?
Ernst : It's up to us to stop it together - you and I, the common soldier. It's in our power to stop it.
Willy : It's not the war you'll stop - it's a bullet against the wall.