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(SPOLERS) Peter & the German officer connection


(SPOILERS) Can someone piece together for me how Peter, John Voights character figures out that the German captain killed on the docks was his father?

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Roschmann asks Miller the same question. His answer is that the details provided in Tauber's diary made it clear: the officer's rank, unit insignia, an unusual medal he was awarded, the date, the location.

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You got your mind right, Luke?

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The date and location in Tauber's diary matched what his mother was probably told by the SS about her husband being killed, that plus his rank and commendations...

When you talk to God it’s called prayer...when God talks to you it’s called schizophrenia...

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When this came up ... I groaned in disbelief ... and suddenly thought of Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein ... that Nazis was my father!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0vDYEJ0Y7Y

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