M-o-t-F - Gert Frobe was indeed one of the best actors in the movie!
"We do it the way we do everything - from the instruction manual!"
How true! A (German) Airbus test pilot once told me:
"If you give a German, a Brit and a Frenchman the rule book, the German will look in the rule book for the rule which tells him what to do; the Brit will check that there's nothing in the book to tell him that he can't do it. The Frenchman won't bother opening the book!"
Ah - the days when it was though of as gentle comedy to parody national stereotypes! Before the days of the huggy-fluffies and the political correctos!