There were about 40000 P.O.W.'s there if you bothered to count the Russians and the Poles and the Czechs.
6 seconds sound clip from the Stalag 17 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:01:55.015 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- What gets me is that there never was a movie about P.O.W.'s, about prisoners of war.
- Now, my name is Clarence Harvey Cook. They call me Cookie.
- In our compound, there were about 630 of us, all American airmen.
- Radio operators, gunners and engineers, all sergeants.
- Now, you put 630 sergeants together, and, oh, mother, you've got yourself a situation.
- There was more fireworks shooting off around that joint.
- Take, for instance, the story about the spy we had in our barracks.
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Sound clips of the best quotes from the 1953 movie Stalag 17.
Actors: William Holden (J.J. Sefton), Don Taylor (James Dunbar), Otto Preminger (Colonel von Scherbach), Robert Strauss (Stanislas Animal Kuzawa), Harvey Lembeck (Harry Shapiro), Peter Graves (Frank Price)
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