“So what does it feel like to kill a man with your bare hands? It’s a topic I’m very interested in.”
Esmeralda, Hugo Stiglitz would tell you it’s like breathing, because it’s second nature to him.
The reason for Hugo Stiglitz's celebrity among German soldiers is simple. As a German enlisted man, he killed thirteen Gestapo officers, mostly Majors. Instead of putting him up against a wall, the High Command decided to send him back to Berlin, to be made an example of. Needless to say, once the Basterds heard of him, he never got there.