“I am a coward, Doctor. If I'd been anything but a soldier I might have lived my whole life and concealed it.”
John Clements - Harry Faversham

“Of course one soldier more or less doesn't make any difference, you know. That's why I'm making thousands and thousands of troops for England. See? Good strong fellows who won't be afraid as I was. I was afraid. That's why I ran away, you know.”

Morton Lowry - Traumatized Young Soldier

“- Gen. Dolgorucki: Why are you not in uniform?
- Lev Andreyev: My lungs are weak.
- Gen. Dolgorucki: Perhaps it is your courage that is weak.”
Emil Jannings - Gen. Dolgorucki
William Powell - Lev Andreyev

“You knew they were innocent, but you were crazy to see them hanged. And to make me watch it. I could've stopped you with a gun, just as any other animal can be stopped. But I couldn't do it because I'm a coward.”

William Eythe - Gerald Tetley

“- Captain Klaus Woermann: What's all the shooting in the village, huh?
- Major Kaempffer: A civilian to be interrogated. He resisted, and was shot!
- Captain Klaus Woermann: Another civilian! The courageous Einsatzkommondo again is victorious!”
Jürgen Prochnow - Woermann
Gabriel Byrne - Kaempffer