These scenes made me laugh - a couple of times the Nazis insist on coffee instead of good old English tea, then the soldier tells the old lady he's not married but has two sons! I'm sure that made English audiences boo even more than a "baby on a bayonet"!
Actually, I got the impression he had been married but wasn't anymore, that perhaps his wife had died or something. I didn't interpret it as saying anything about Germans generally, just that character.
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I just want sausages and mash and a bit of cake. Not twigs fried in honey or a donkey in a coffin!
The Nazis went out of their way to implore young German women to have children as often as possible, in wedlock and out. The idea was to raise as many purebred Aryans as possible to fight for the Reich.
So the idea of him being happily married and/or having illegitimate children could be taken both ways. Remember dogs liked Hitler so there is no accounting for taste. It also makes for a better story- Will the evil German soldier turn out to be a nice guy in the end?
He did say his sons would be old enough to fight soon, so I'm guessing they would have been born in the 1920s.
shareYes, lots of touches of Teutonic turpitude. In one scene, Maxwell/Jung is seen wolfing down a chocolate eclair like a brute. This is followed by a German with his feet up on a sideboard/table, eating sausage with his hands, responding to a claim that Germans bayonet babies by enquiring, 'What would be the advantage?' It's about as subtle as the chopper that the old lady used to kill him.
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Wish I could share the joke, but there is a serious side to the illegitimate children thing:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html
I saw a Nazi documentary last night. 'The Last Nazis.' It's all about the lebensborn programme that they carried out. It involved single women giving birth to German/Nordic ideal children for the Reich. No single and ordinary German soldiers were mentioned as being used as fathers in the documentary. Apparently the chosen paternal partners were married SS officers.
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