- "Soon, my dear Werner - we shall watch Bertha feast on French madmen!"
- ―German commander[src]
The German commander was an officer in the German forces, serving in the area of Verdun during World War I. In September 1916, he and Werner waited by one of the newly-arrived Big Bertha guns, hoping to use his field glasses to watch the decimation the French forces.
Behind the scenes[]
The role of the commander does not appear in the episode "Verdun, September 1916".