• Warning: Spoilers
    While I do understand what the story was trying to tell its audience, it ended up coming across as Nazi Apologist material. The son of the Nazi captain meets a Jewish prisoner his age add throughout the film they become friends. At the end of the movie, the captain's son goes into the concentration camp with his friend, disguised as a prisoner, to help him find his dad. At this point the Germans gather all of the prisoners and force them into the gas chamber where they are subsequently murdered.

    While I believe the intention was to ask the question of how the oppressors would feel if the atrocities they caused had affected a member of their family, the movie seemed to create more shock value and devastation about the son being accidentally killed in the process. This in my opinion is very tone deaf.