The Predator Becomes the Prey

Rating: 10/10 (18 April 2005)

The Nazis who preyed on so many for so long are now helplessly watching the tables turn. But even here, they're still not quite as desperate and hopeless as were their victims, who went in hunger and thirst to their deaths without the benefit of handguns and vials of poison.
The coldness of the Nazis is, at times, breathtaking. Their unquestioning nationalism, their devotion to and belief in Hitler, and their readiness to blow their brains out for the cause, now lost, are sickening. Twice we see parents taking not only their lives, but also the lives of their children.
Nowhere in the movie, as I recall, did Hitler accept blame (or anything remotely close) for what was happening. It was the generals' fault. He should have killed them as Stalin did his. Then it was the people's fault. They were weak. They deserved to die.
This film is depressing but almost impossible to turn away from. It is something that should be watched and remembered by adults everywhere.