Decision Before Dawn (1951)
Oskar Werner: Cpl. Karl Maurer - aka Happy
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Quotes
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Lt Pete Gevers : Even if means fighting against your own people?
Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : I believe fighting against them now is fighting for them.
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Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : I believe in a life in which one is not always afraid, in a life in which people are free and honest with each other. And I know we won't have this in Germany... until... until we have lost.
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Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : Not any harder than fighting for something I knew was wrong.
Lt. Dick Rennick : You were a medic. You didn't really fight.
Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : [pause] To be there is to fight.
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Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : [amused, while having his fingerprints taken] I thought in America only criminals are fingerprinted.
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Col. Von Ecker : I had forgotten that people like that are too weak. They would never have the courage to kill, even if it is to save themselves.
Cpl. Karl Maurer aka Happy : Sometimes it takes more courage not to kill.
