Propaganda and denial crash in Nazi Germany

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2015)

This is another in the long list of powerful reminders of the atrocities of the Holocaust with some insight into how such a horror can happen. The viewpoint from this BBC film is from that of a family representing the different Germans caught in the vast tornado of fear and hate. The father is a Commander who Serves: doing what he has to for his family's' survival (his country) in a land where you are either for or against, and against means death. The mother represents Denial: until the violence appears in here home where it can no longer be ignored or tolerated. This is sympathetic stating that not all Germans were "all in". The daughter represents the brainwashing of Nazi Youth and then we have the boy, portrayed by the blue eyed Asa Butterfield (before he became our family hero in "Hugo"). Young Bruno shows us the innocent, both he and the persecuted. It's his viewpoint we watch the events powerfully play out. Not an easy watch, but worth the point of the film.