Let Me Tell You a Dirty Little Secret About Die Hard
Briefly

"As is often the case with American movies, the speech goes untranslated, and the subtitles say only, 'Talking in German' or, even funnier, 'Talking in a foreign language.'"
"So sometimes they speak to one another in German... but, being German, I can tell you that they are not speaking anything identifiable as actual German."
Read at Slate Magazine
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