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Habermann faces, the accidents and rash behavior of others that he cannot cover for in the eyes of the black-uniformed Germans with machine guns all seems engineered to paper over his moral ambiguity in all this. Thus does a movie about a fence-sitter become a frustrating exercise in fence-sitting itself".
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Holocaust is introduced directly in a single heart-rending scene, the cries of children overheard in crammed railway cars that pass by". Moore felt that many of the film's characters were either thinly written or too cliched.
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