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...defending our country,
our fatherland.
:04:19
Now, my beloved class,
this is what we must do:
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Strike with all our power.
:04:26
Give every ounce of strength...
:04:28
to win victory
before the end of the year.
:04:32
It is with reluctance that
I bring this subject up again.
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You are the life
of the fatherland, you boys.
:04:40
You are the iron men
of Germany.
:04:43
You are the gay heroes
who will repulse the enemy...
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when you are called upon
to do so.
:04:49
It is not for me to suggest
that any of you...
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should stand up and offer
to defend his country.
:04:56
But I wonder if such a thing
is going through your heads.
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I know that
in one of the schools,
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the boys have risen up
in the classroom...
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and enlisted in a mass.
:05:08
But, of course, if such a thing
should happen here,
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you would not blame me
for a feeling of pride.
:05:14
Perhaps some will say...
:05:16
that you should not
be allowed to go yet,
:05:19
that you are too young, that you
have homes, mothers, fathers,
:05:23
that you should not be
torn away.
:05:26
Are your fathers so forgetful
of their fatherland...
:05:30
that they would let it perish
rather than you?
:05:36
Are your mothers so weak
that they cannot send a son...
:05:38
to defend the land
which gave them birth?
:05:41
And after all,
is a little experience...
:05:45
such a bad thing
for a boy?
:05:49
Is the honor of wearing
a uniform...
:05:52
something from which
we should run?
:05:55
And if our young ladies
glory in those who wear it,
:05:59
is that anything
to be ashamed of?