SS troup train


The two SS men who sieze the young man as a hostage are most improbably in full SS dress. This was done no doubt for dramatic effect. Whatever, they are clearly both soft-faced horrors who will likely shoot him out of hand when he no longer serves a purpose.

The older German is also an SS man though in a more probable uniform. He looks absolutely awful with a crocodile face. Yet he notices the scars on the hostage's wrists and tells him to jump off the train.

Why is this? The fact is that not all Waffen SS men were horrors and of course appearances can lie. Is this then an act of humanity? Or does he does suspect the hostage is unstable and may do something silly endangering the train?

I'd dearly like the director's explanation.

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