That scene early in the movie when the GIs execute those two surrendering germans feels like a perfunctory stab at a “war is hell” moment, but now that I think about it it never comes up again, the characters just quip about it and then the movie forgets to do anything with it.
Yeah iirc that’s meant to be a dark reference to conscripted German Czechs. That’s the closest Spielberg can get to empathizing with someone in eastern Europe
That scene early in the movie when the GIs execute those two surrendering germans feels like a perfunctory stab at a “war is hell” moment, but now that I think about it it never comes up again, the characters just quip about it and then the movie forgets to do anything with it.
If you look it up they’re actually saying something like “we’re Czech not German” right before they get popped which makes it even more awkward.
Yeah iirc that’s meant to be a dark reference to conscripted German Czechs. That’s the closest Spielberg can get to empathizing with someone in eastern Europe
Considering the usual anglo opinions and their history with Slavs and Germans, admitting to being Czech worsened their situation a lot.