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Anyone feel sorry for those people trapped beneath the hand grenades?


They seems so helpless.

"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."

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I think the scene is supposed to be a reference to what the Nazi's were doing to people in the death camps.

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No.

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Just like the Jews they were responsible for sending to the gas chambers. It's one of those glorious moments of justice. ;)

This sentence has nothing to do with what I just have written above.

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Just like the Jews they were responsible for sending to the gas chambers.

Weren't these army regulars NOT Nazi/SS officers?

"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."

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The name of the country was Nazi Germany. The name of the regime was Nazi Germany. Therefore, whether they were Waffen SS soldiers or not is immaterial. In the end they were fighting for... NAZI GERMANY! So that made the Nazis...

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No, that attitude makes you the Nazi.

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No. Jefferson was smiling.

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Ask Vladic and Pinkley.


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yes..I know they were Nazi soldiers, but there was a lot of women. I did feel bad
for them.

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No way; if that was the intent, I'd have picked it up from the tone and style of the scene. As it was, I only equated it with part of their mission. No?

"Only a fool would say that." --STEELY DAN

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There were probably few if any officers from the Nazi party. The Nazi party had their own military branch which was the Waffen SS. A lot of ww2 uneducated people assume all Germans were Nazi's which was not the case. These officers were from the Heer, which was the regular German army. A lot of them did not buy into Hitler's Nazi ideology, but they still had to serve their country regardless.

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I felt really sad for the women. They were not playing an important role in the war. They should not have been killed. But I guess they died because they were there.

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Yep, I second that.

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Why? They were Nazis and Nazi collaborators. They deserved death.

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The chateau that Reisman is ordered to destroy is a meeting place of high ranking German officers who are planning the defenses for the D-Day invasion. It isn't some private getaway for officers and their families to have a party but an actual military target.

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