Our Flags Lead Us Forward (1933)

Heinrich George: Vater Völker

Quotes 

• Bannführer Kaß : Where were you born?

  Vater Völker : In Berlin.

  Bannführer Kaß : Where is it?

  Vater Völker : Near the Spree.

  Bannführer Kaß : Near the Spree, that's right. But where? In what country?

  Vater Völker : Well, in Germany, of course.

  Bannführer Kaß : In Germany, that's correct. In our Germany. Think about it.

• Stoppel : What's your name then?

  Heini Völker : Heini.

  Stoppel : Are you a member?

  Heini Völker : What's a member?

  Stoppel : So you're not a member, then, correct?

  Heini Völker : No, I'm not a member.

  Stoppel : Well its high time you become a member then. We have a Communist Youth Internationale. You're not a Nazi, are you?

  Vater Völker : What are you talking about, Stoeppel? The boy doesn't know a thing about that stuff. My boy a Nazi, now that is totally ridiculous. I'd kill my boy if I ever thought he was a Nazi... Whatever.

  Stoppel : It was nice talking to you, Heini.

• Heini Völker : Where should I go?

  Vater Völker : What a question? To his father, that's where he belongs.

  Bannführer Kaß : That's the question. Where does a boy belong? You know, I had very good parents, but once I was fifteen, I went away. I wanted to the sea, become a sailor. Somewhere there were islands, palmtrees, Africa. Thousands of boys ran away.

  Vater Völker : Those boys were rascals.

  Bannführer Kaß : Well, boys are something wonderful. Boys are a big secret, since all the times. They fled to the trappers, to the gipsys. Always they were touched by the big migration. Then they start to stroll. Where does a boy belong these day? Why don't you ask your own boy?