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“CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ALDO THE APACHE My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped…” quote by Quentin Tarantino
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““CHAPTER 2: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ALDO THE APACHE My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I'm putting together a special team, and I need me 8 soldiers. 8 Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thing and one thing only... killin' Nazis. Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross 5,000 miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a fuckin' air-o-plane to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be destroyed. That's why any and every every son of a bitch we find wearin' a Nazi uniform, they're gonna die. Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sooounds good?””

Quentin Tarantino

About This Quote

Source Film: Inglourious Basterds (2009) – Chapter 2 monologue

Lt. Aldo Raine declares a brutal, guerrilla campaign against Nazis, using terror to intimidate and destroy the enemy.

In simple terms: A soldier vows to kill Nazis with cruelty to frighten them.

Key Takeaway

Use psychological warfare to weaken opponents.

Themes

war revenge psychological tactics guerrilla warfare

Mood

intense defiant grim

Type

motivational inspirational

When to use this quote

  • military planning
  • combat training
  • psychological operations
  • enemy morale
  • ethical limits

Key Concepts

terror intimidation revenge

Questions to Reflect On

  • Is terror an effective long‑term strategy?
  • What are the moral costs of cruelty?
A Different Perspective

Such cruelty can violate war crimes and moral standards.

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