Battleground (1949) German's Negotiate the 101 Surrender
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Sign a petition for a Van Johnson Postage Stamp ~ vanjohnsonstamp.... German's come out of fog cover and demand to be taken to Army Headquarters. The men watch German's staying behind. A famous US response to German's asking the Army to surrender is reinacted - "NUTZ!" Battleground was MGM's largest grossing film in five years
saw this for the first time when i was 7 years old in 1949! never forgotten!
One of the best films about WWII ever made. Thoroughly entertaining!
I wonder how many people know how similar the "Nuts" response is to , "then we will fight in the shade"?
300 Spartans. (smile)
old war flicks you can hear the echo of the inside warehouse soundstage
Love how Holly (Van Johnson) answers the German almost as if mocking him, "Eye-a ahm een commant hehr!" 😂
"That guy" was Henry Rowland from Omaha, Nebraska. He played Germans in other movies, like "Sahara" with Humphrey Bogart, and "Captains of the Clouds" with James Cagney.
Admire the Colonel for giving the proper salute to the troopers after sending the Germans away!
The American Colonel would have been Col Harry O Kinnard. What the scene left out was Kinnard saying “Good Luck”. Kinnard later said he had no idea why that came out but it did. Kinnard went on to command the 11th Air Assault Division and later the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam
Correction that was Colonel Joe Harper who commanded the 327 GIR. Kinnard was the one who recommended the response to McAuliffe.
"...take a flying leap at a rolling donut!" That is one of my favorite movie lines, of all time! Thanks for sharing!
It's cleaned up a bit for the movie! This WAS 1949 after all! 🤣
1:54 my favorite line from the film. I use it, when necessary.
Back in the early 1960s, I had an ROTC instructor who was a 101st veteran of Bastogne. As a result of his service there, he was permitted to wear the 101st shoulder patch on his uniform permanently.
1ryan - I agree...this move is a facinating look at WWII soldiers' weakness and strengths.
It shows what those men went through Belgium in in some of the worst conditions known to Infantry. Those men were Tigers.
I love the ending line where he finally finds out something without hearing about from his wife. Ha, ha.
Met a GI in Arizona that was actually there when this happened
Note how clean shaven the Germans are contrasting to the dogfaces!
Actually the colonel said, " On your way bub, and good luck to you", a statement Colonel Harper always regretted saying.
am assuming you mean regretted the last part "good luck to you"
That’s hilarious shooting smoke at that guy.
A sure fire nicotine fit for an American cigarette, most likely a Lucky. 😄
When asked what "Nuts" meant, he actually said, "In plain English, it means go to hell."
Classic one word reply:"Nuts",and he tells the Germans On your way, Bud!!.
Best part of the film. "NUTS". Not just a negative but it's impossible even to think about a surrender.
George Murphy's expression at the German Major's reaction to 'definitely negative' LOL
"That's fer sure. That's for Dang sure!"
You will remember the German soldier who has the smoke rings blown in his face from the movie 'Sahara', he is the 'good' German killed by the German flyer...
Jeff Smith: The only person I remember the flyer killing was an ITALIAN mechanic, played by J Carrol Naish. An excellent performance. I would have nominated him for a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar
Great film, but the American's reply to the German officer on what "Nuts" meant was sanitized. Historically he told him meant "Go to Hell", and that his men would killed every *Beepy-beep* Germans that came.
Very iconic classic moment of the war!
The word surrender isn't in the airborne vocabulary.
In reality the German commander was far more desperate than the American commander. He didn't have enough tropes or fuel to attack Bastongne. He hoped he could just scare the American commander
They could, but, its a bluff in the sense that they will never make Antwerp without serious fuel gains, which were unlikely, and as if willfully giving ground to the nazis ever gained anyone anything other than new territory, seized resources and slave labor for them
True, but McAuliff didn't know that.
All those actors probably served a few years earlier,
Many did, many of the background extras you see here are in fact 101st Airborne veterans or newer ones serving in 49'
Was Van Johnson on an early fact finding mission to prepare for "The Last Blitzkrieg" released 10 years later ?
Strange role reversal casting considering his "Battleground" part.
One of my all time favorite movie scenes.
They should have arranged a truce
Celebrate xmas as fellow anglo saxons
Interesting. I doubt the way the war was going that a Christmas truce was even considered.
NUTS “never underestimate the soldiers” of Bastogne!!!
best war movie ever...
Next to 12 O Clock High and The Best Years Of Our Lives?
Yes
1:52 That was the civilian wording. I believe the military words were more like, "Take an aeronautical intercourse into a perforated pastry."
I had a girl break up with me via text message before…… my answer was “ Nuts”
What did general Mccauliffe say at Bastogne
Good movie ,
the battle of the bulge was hitlers last attempt to surrender to the west, rahter than face the Red Army which was several weeks ahead of the western allies on the march to Berlin. he sought terms acceptable to the west, the west denied his efforts, the rest is History.
They got us surrounded the poor basterds
We're paratroopers, We're supposed to be surrounded...
101st in Vietnam, A Shau valley, 1969!
Hot neighborhood, to be sure.
@@aaarauz1 Very hot, even in the shade!
I want the full movie though
Goes back to his bunker, troops waiting for the shells. 🤔
General McAuliffe gave a typical American reply.
Wie kann man so respektlos sein
3:32 Gold
I guess they couldn't say "goto hell" back then
It actually means more like try that donut action with your pecker
as in to say without saying,
to go f themselves
Actually, the expression “Nuts” as expressed by General McAuliffe was something he often said when he thoughts something was crazy or out of the question. As the story goes, when he was presented with the ultimatum he was totally caught off guard because in his estimation the 101st and other soldiers in Bastogne were more than holding their own against the Germans and he considered the ultimatum divorced from reality. His first reaction was one of surprise causing him to blurt out “Aw Nuts!” As the story goes he was really at a loss to write a formal response until Col Harry WO Kinnard told him his first reaction would be appropriate. Kinnard had to remind McAulliffe what he said and that became the official response
well done and thanks
@@geodes4762 I Wished He Said "Dropping Z Dead" LOL (smile) Like the Movie Stalag 17.
HOwever the director best interprets the scene...
Wierd, I always thought they showed the actual message, "Due to the changing fortunes of war..."
They knew the germans couldn't do it
I wouldn't have said "Nuts", although that was a good reply. I would have told them to tell their General that my answer is F--k You, Pal! Let the Germans figure that one out. Back then people were nice...even when they were not in agreement with you.
our US soldiers really were that tough. It's not just Hollywood portrayel.
The troops of the 101st Airborn and the 10 Armor, were in deed the tough, and then some!!
What's interesting is to see how many modern World War II films, even good ones, often fail to take into account how different accents sounded then (unless it's audio distortion). The American soldiers in the 1940s and 50s films talk or sound very different than Band of Brothers and others, at least from what I can tell.
ça reflète bien la mentalité des yanks pendant la guerre; "nuts" ha hah ha qu'est ce qu'on rigole! Et pourtant ils n'ont pas eu un comportement glorieux en Europe.
et ne parlons pas des sovietiques
Erich Marcks. J'essaie de comprendre ce que vous dites. En disant "ils n'ont pas eu un comportement glorieux en Europe", vouliez-vous dire qu'ils se sont mal comportés? Ou ils ne se sont pas bien battus?
The Americans should have said to hell with it. Time to go home
After reading some the a_ _hole comments here from Europeans.....l agree. Our war was in the Pacific, should've left the one in Europe to them.
Edmond Dantes What? Germany was a much bigger threat than Japan. If the Germans had defeated the British Empire the USA would of been screwed. The entire northern border with Canada could of potentially been opened up as a jump off point for Axis invasion. Either that or the Soviets would of defeated the Germans, occupied the whole of mainland Europe, and the Cold War would of gone very differently.
Not sure what comments you’ve read on here, but I’m British and I’m very grateful for the sacrifices made by all of the Allies. Especially those of the Anglo-sphere. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇦🇺
@@edmonddantes3640 You are stupid and ill informed
What in the Nazi apologist fuck are you even talking about?
the real thing happened was
The general did not say "Nuts". He actually said "Balls!", according to witnesses, but it was changed for the film because of the sensibilities of the time.
Who's the actor playing the Col.?
I believe his name was Ian MacDonald. The real life officer he was portraying would have been Col Joseph H. Harper commanding officer of the 327th GIR.
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what film is this from?? looks interesting)
It's title is Battleground, very realistic for the period it was filmed.
Americans.
Yep. No respect at all. A tradition going back to the Revolution. A British officer wrote how he captured two New Jersey militiamen scouting his position. He tried to interrogate the prisoners, but instead, he reported, he wasted a half hour while they tried to convince him they were on a hunting trip.
@@midlandredux The Germans were being audacious and coy here, not the Americans so, what do you even mean?
@@adamscott7354 -- What clip were you watching? The Germans were being officious and stiff and were confused by the American reply.
@@adamscott7354 From 'Snow & Steel" by Peter Caddick-Adams: "It was on 22 December 1944 that, against the wishes of his superior Manteuffel, the commander of XLVII Panzer Corps, Heinrich von Luttwitz (1896-1969), issued a surrender summons to Tony McAuliffe, defender of Bastogne. With his monocle, Knight’s Cross and distinguished-sounding surname, the German was the very stereotype of a Nazi officer from central casting. The contrast between the lineages of the Barons von Luttwitz and the Irish Catholic McAuliffe was emphasised by the American commander’s reply - ‘Nuts!’ It was backwoods levity to counter Prussian pomposity."
@@midlandredux I meant before that, the two soldier escorts were coy, the commanders are the ones being audacious
Full disrespect for adversary military coming to negotiate. Why do almost all WWII US motion pics depict a frustrated kind of superiority of their nations soldiers and caricaturize the Germans. Apart from all the monstrous cruelties committed by the Nazi command and their related military field units (mainly the SS departments) the general German army was of outstanding class and proper ethics, as is admitted amongst the historians.
Interesting view in hindsight.
@@TheCarole63 Don't ever listen to a Wermacht apologist lady, they had their own warcrimes and complacency, and these armed forces are the ones there illegally waging a war of aggression for what? One racist madmans despotism? The Americans were absolutely in their right to deservingly depict the Nazi regime Germans as overall aholes because that's what they were, people seem to want to forget that, whole gist of this movie is to demonstrate who are the robotic, spineless complacent drones, and who is there on the right side of history, for the right reasons by a collective national choice, not the nazis rigged contract of sign / click "I agree" and then all the murderous horror comes after the fact, regardless of "some" German units, soldiers, officers showing humanity, it will never offset Europes 40 million dead or the 11 million of the holocaust and its just the worst kind of tripe to watch people try to let alone actually convince people of this
This exchange happened almost exactly as shown here, only the soldier's reply to what "Nuts" means was "In plain English it means go to hell!" He also added "Good luck to you" as well in response to the threat to kill many Americans.
Agree. It was 1949. They were still spouting propaganda
Not a great movie at all. It was made in 1949. They were still spouting wartime propaganda. It's a hard drug to drop
Жалко что язык английский ,а сцена видимо интересная.
why did the germans salute the americans
Because rank is observed in all military units through the world. A kinship is felt even amount enemies during combat. Mostly known as respect.
Because they were out ranked...
Nusse!!!
smoke smoke
the germans muhahahahha
1949 🙄🙈🙈
Selten einen primitiveren Propagandafilm gesehen!
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Propaganda movie
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