Interesting Revisionist-History Spin on World War II - Europe

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2007)

Passed off as a true story, the film begins and ends with Rachael AKA Ellis in an Israeli camp. How she gets there takes us through 2 1/2 hours of World War II in the Netherlands and the Dutch Resistance.
As with about 200 other movies since 1960, the focus begins and ends with the Jews. There is no mention of Hitler's infamous bombing of 20,000 buildings in Rotterdam in 20 minutes --- with Dutch people in them. Hitler not bothering to wait for the Dutch response to his surrender ultimatum. Nope, the whole thing is just about the Jews; indeed one Dutchman even says Oh, well, we're nearly German anyway. Oh, sure!
Anyway Jewish brunette Rachel becomes blonde non-Jew Ellis and will have to face watching her entire family shot down when an escape to safety in Belgium is betrayed. Her saga is always interesting as she not only works with the Resistance but as part of it she meets and will truly love a German SS Officer, the hoptgrossenfuhrer who gives most of the orders killing people, Jews and non-Jews alike. The story gets muddled and confused -- as war must be -- but it's morality is annoyingly inconclusive.
World War II in Europe has been successfully re-written over the past 40 years -- mostly by successful movies -- to the extent that young people today think it was all about the Jews. It wasn't. It was about the invasion of Poland, of Czechoslavakia, of the Netherlands, of France, the bombing of London --- so much more than just the Jews. Such films have downplayed and forgotten the patriotic sacrifices of millions of Catholics, Protestants, et cetera who fought the tough fight and ended the Nazi madness. They, not the Jews, were over 90% of those who lost their lives in World War II Europe.
Teach your kids, and tell the truth.