:57:03
when they're halfway
through St. Quentin already?
:57:06
Because Flanders
is a flat country!
:57:08
- No mountains, no obstructions!
- There's too many rivers there!
:57:29
From the farms they have gone;
:57:31
from the schools,
from the factories.
:57:34
They have gone bravely,
nobly, ever forward,
:57:38
realizing there is no other duty now
but to save the fatherland.
:57:45
Paul!
How are you, Paul?
:57:48
Glad to see you,
Professor.
:57:51
You've come at the right moment,
Baumer! Just at the right moment.
:57:55
And as if to prove all I have said,
here is one of the first to go.
:58:00
A lad who sat before me
on these very benches...
:58:04
who gave up all to serve
in the first year of the war;
:58:08
one of the iron youth who have
made Germany invincible in the field.
:58:13
Look at him--
sturdy and bronze and clear -eyed.
:58:17
The kind of soldier
every one of you should envy.
:58:21
Oh, lad, you must
speak to them.
:58:25
You must tell them what it means
to serve your fatherland.
:58:30
- No, I can't tell them anything.
- You must, Paul.
:58:33
Just a word. Just tell them
how much they're needed out there.
:58:38
Tell them why you went
and what it meant to you.
:58:41
I can't say
anything.
:58:43
You can remember some deed of heroism,
some touch of nobility.
:58:48
Tell about it.
:58:56
I can't tell you
anything you don't know.