The Road Back (1937)

John 'Dusty' King: Ernst

Quotes 

• Ernst : When they send the blue rockets up, it's Peace.

  Willy : Blue rockets? That's the yarn they told my old dad way back in 1914.

• Willy's Mother : So, it's Ernst is it? What have to been doing to my Willi out there at the front?

  Ernst : I? I haven't done anything.

  Willy's Mother : Oh yes you have! I send him away a sweet-natured curly-headed boy, and you bring me back a great hulking bald-headed monster!

• Tjaden : Its just goin' on and on. Nobody knows how to stop it now. It's got too big and too old. Might as well try and stop the Rhine.

  Ernst : It can't go on.

  Tjaden : What, the Rhine?

  Ernst : The war. We've no shells, no food. We're bandaging wounds with paper. It's got to stop.

  Willy : And you're the man who's going to stop it I suppose?

  Ernst : It's up to us to stop it together - you and I, the common soldier. It's in our power to stop it.

  Willy : It's not the war you'll stop - it's a bullet against the wall.