 CONT: During the film, and especially the mission to infiltrate the  German supply dump, none of the commandos, including Major Mallory  can understand German. This is especially clear when Leskovar  insists he must accompany the team to the dump as only he speaks  German and, later, when the team is discussing Leskovars encounter  with the German Sergeant in the train car. All of this ignores the  fact that this film is a sequel to "The Guns of Navarone" in which  Mallory is specifically chosen for the mission because he speaks  "German like a German." Alistair MacLeans original stories also  support this fact.