Consider for a momentthe world a rat lives in
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Consider for a momentthe world a rat lives in
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Consider for a moment the world a rat lives in
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It's a hostile world indeed
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If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now
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would you greet it with hostility
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I suppose I would
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Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them
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Rats spread disease They bite people
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Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague but that's some time ago
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I propose to you any disease a rat could spread
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a squirrel could equally carry
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Would you agree
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AGREES IN FRENCH
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Yet I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels
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that you do with rats do you No
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Yet they're both rodents are they not
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And except for the tail they even rather look alike don't they
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It's an interesting thought Herr Colonel
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However interesting as the thought may be
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it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel
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If a rat were to walk in here right now as I'm talking
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would you greet it with a saucer of your delicious milk
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Probably not
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I didn't think so
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You don't like them
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You don't really know why you don't like them
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All you know is you find them repulsive
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Consequently a German soldier conducts a search
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of a house suspected of hiding Jews
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Where does the hawk look
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He looks in the barn he looks in the attic he looks in the cellar
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he looks everywhere he would hide
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But there are so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide
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However the reason the Fϋhrer has brought me off my Alps in Austria
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and placed me in French cow country today is because it does occur to me
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Because I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of
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once they abandon dignity
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May I smoke my pipe as well
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Please Herr Colonel make yourself at home
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Movie Summary
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
