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...defending our country,
our fatherland.
:04:13
Now, my beloved class,
this is what we must do:
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Strike with all our power.
:04:20
Give every ounce of strength...
:04:22
to win victory
before the end of the year.
:04:25
It is with reluctance that
I bring this subject up again.
:04:30
You are the life
of the fatherland, you boys.
:04:34
You are the iron men
of Germany.
:04:37
You are the gay heroes
who will repulse the enemy...
:04:40
when you are called upon
to do so.
:04:42
It is not for me to suggest
that any of you...
:04:46
should stand up and offer
to defend his country.
:04:49
But I wonder if such a thing
is going through your heads.
:04:52
I know that
in one of the schools...
:04:55
the boys have risen up
in the classroom...
:04:58
and enlisted in a mass.
:05:00
But, of course, if such a thing
should happen here...
:05:03
you would not blame me
for a feeling of pride.
:05:06
Perhaps some will say...
:05:08
that you should not
be allowed to go yet...
:05:10
that you are too young,
that you have homes, mothers, fathers...
:05:15
that you should not be torn away.
:05:18
Are your fathers so forgetful
of their fatherland...
:05:21
that they would let it perish
rather than you?
:05:27
Are your mothers so weak
that they cannot send a son...
:05:30
to defend the land
which gave them birth?
:05:32
And after all,
is a little experience...
:05:36
such a bad thing for a boy?
:05:39
Is the honour of wearing
a uniform...
:05:43
something from which
we should run?
:05:46
And if our young ladies
glory in those who wear it...
:05:49
is that anything
to be ashamed of?
:05:51
I know you have never desired
the adulation of heroes.
:05:56
That has not been
part of my teaching.
:05:59
We have sought
to make ourselves worthy...