Best holocaust movie!

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2002)

As a holocaust survivor I was particularly moved by Polanski's
realistic picture of life and death in the Warsaw ghetto. The only flaws I noticed were in the German uniforms: soldiers did not routinely wear brand-new shiny helmets (with little swasticas) in the cities; they usually wore soft army hats. There was no distinction in the movie between Wehrmacht (army) and SS. The SS uniforms (at least the officers') were black. Their caps had a skull and crossbones on it. And towards the end of the war characters like Capt. Hosenfeld were not uncommon. I ran into several Wehrmacht (not SS) characters running from the Russians, who were sympathetic and could barely wait for the war to be over.