Patton (1970)

Richard Münch: Colonel General Alfred Jodl

Quotes 

• Capt. Oskar Steiger : [inside the German bunker]  Sir, the Americans have taken Palermo!

  General Alfred Jodl : Damn!

  Messenger : [after pulling up to Monty's command post]  Sir, Patton's taken Palermo!

  Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery : Damn!

• Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl : In 15 minutes, we meet with the Fuhrer. He will want to know how you intend to deal with Patton's forces.

  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : I will attack and annihilate him...!

  [long pause] 

  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : ...before he does the same to me.

• Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : What is this activity near Coulances?

  General Alfred Jodl : Enemy armored forces driving through our defenses at Lessay.

  [reading telegram] 

  General Alfred Jodl : "American tanks moving rapidly, slicing through to the rear areas."

  Capt. Oskar Steiger : This sounds like Patton, Field Marshall.

  General Alfred Jodl : Patton is in England.

  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : Do we know this?

  General Alfred Jodl : The landing in Normandy is merely a diversionary maneuver. The real invasion will come at Calais and Patton will lead it. The Fuehrer says that the Fifteenth Army is not to be moved to Normandy.

  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : Those men are sitting on the beach at Calais throwing rocks at each other while our men are being slaughtered in Normandy.

  General Alfred Jodl : [firmly]  The Fifteenth Army is waiting for Patton at Calais and he will land there.

  Field Marshal Erwin Rommel : You seem perfectly willing to accept this nonsense, Jodl. Why?

  General Alfred Jodl : [chuckles]  Because I am not prepared to dispute the Fuehrer.

• General Alfred Jodl : [German military personnel are frantically burning papers in a disordered headquarters as they prepare to retreat]  This is the end... the end. Hurry, Steiger. I want everything destroyed. Papers, maps, everything!

  Capt. Oskar Steiger : Everything will be destroyed, General, that I can promise you.

• Capt. Oskar Steiger : [explaining Patton's attitude toward war]  Sir, do you not see?

  General Alfred Jodl : What?

  Capt. Oskar Steiger : Don Quixote battles six merchants from Toledo and saves Dulcinea's virtue!

  General Alfred Jodl : Who the devil is Dulcinea?

• Capt. Oskar Steiger : [the German general staff is watching captured staged footage of the American generals landing in Sicily. General Omar Bradley has just stepped off the boat]  He is most capable yet unpretentious. Unusual for a general.

  General Alfred Jodl : [Turns slightly and gives Steiger a dirty look] 

  Capt. Oskar Steiger : Sorry...