War Movie Scene: Facing the T-34s – Cross of Iron

Facing the T-34s

Here is a great scene from the War Movie Cross of Iron, where corporal Steiner and his team
wake up to find russian T-34s bearing down on them. James Coburn is Steiner, a German corporal and recipient of the Iron Cross who feels that he owes his loyalty to his family and fellow soldiers and not to Hitler and the German war machine. But when a new commander, Captain Stransky (Maximillian Schell), takes over the platoon, Steiner and Stransky hit it off straight away,,,