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Tonight, that shut-out was a weapon.

Léo didn’t speak German. Neither did most of the resistance cell in the balcony. But they didn’t need to. The director of Inglourious Basterds —the fictional one in this story—had once said in an interview Léo had smuggled from a London paper: “Not translating the German forces you to sit in the discomfort of the characters who don’t understand. You hear the rhythm, the menace, the music of the language—but you’re shut out.” inglourious basterds subtitles for non english parts

One of them, a young American sergeant who had spent three months learning phonetic German from a radio, said: “I didn’t understand a word he said in that final speech. But I knew exactly when to pull the pin.” Tonight, that shut-out was a weapon

Because sometimes, the most dangerous translation is no translation at all. But they didn’t need to

The Germans chuckled.

That was the signal.