- (In French) What's a bird's nest?
- A bird's nest is what a sniper would call a bell tower. It's a high structure, offering a 360 degree view. Very advantageous for marksmen.

Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl)

16 seconds sound clip from the Inglourious Basterds movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:45:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

(In French) No, the mademoiselle is not my girlfriend.

(In French) Can you write 'Amour Babette'?

(In French) So you're a war hero. What did you do?

(In French) I was alone in a bell tower in a walled off city.

- It was myself and a thousand rounds of ammo, in a bird's nest against three hundred enemy soldiers.

(In French) What's a bird's nest? -A bird's nest is what a sniper would call a bell tower. It's a high structure, offering a 360 degree view. Very advantageous for marksmen.

(In French) How many did you kill? -Sixty-eight. The first day. A hundred and fifty, the second day. Thirty-two the third day. On the fourth day they exited the city.

(In French) Naturally, my war story received a lot of attention in Germany. That's why they all recognize me. They call me the German Sergeant York.

(In French) Maybe they'll make a film about your exploits.

(In French) Well, that's just what Joseph Goebbels thought. So he did and called it Nation's Pride.

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