- “I wasn't speaking to you, Lieutenant Munich.”
- ―Dieter Hellstrom
Munich (/ˈmjuːnɪk/; German: München [ˈmʏnçn̩]; Austro-Bavarian: Minga [ˈmɪŋ(ː)ɐ] Polish: Monachium) is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, the second most populous German federal state.[1]
In Inglourious Basterds[]
While the city does not appear in the film, several characters mention it. In the French forest, lt. Aldo Raine introduces Cpl. Wilhelm Wicki to Wehrmacht Sgt. Werner Rachtman, telling him that he's from Munich. In the La Louisiane tavern, Major Dieter Hellstrom correctly guesses Wilhelm Wicki's birthplace, after his accent.
Trivia[]
- In the second chapter, in the woods, Aldo Raine calls Wicki "an Austrian Jew" who "got the fuck out of Munich", implying that while he grew up in Munich, his family origin/birthplace might be Austria.
- In the La Louisiane tavern, the Gestapo Major demonstrates his knowledge of German accents as if he had a superior talent for it. However, this isn't impressive at all, once you consider that the English language equivalent would be the ability to distinguish between accents from places such as Cornwall, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Norfolk, etc. or from US states if you're American. German dialects and accents differ from region to region and, for German speakers, are quite distinguishable, although Hellstrom was able to correctly pinpoint Wicki's home town of Munich, for example.
Behind the scenes[]
Gedeon Burkhard, who played Wilhelm Wicki, was born in Munich.
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