Sorry, but you know it's true. Yes, I know it's based on a true story, but in real life they didn't escape the way they did in the movie.
shareMax was maybe able to convince the Nazis that he didn't know about their plans to run off.
But yeah, you have to wonder what happened to the nuns...
The Nazis didn't torture and execute everyone with whom they disagreed, particularly at that point before the war started when this movie takes place, unless they were political opponents and determined to be dangerous to the Reich. Max and the nuns would have been neither.
If this was later, like in 1942 when things started really going bad for Nazi Germany when all pretense of civilization and tolerance was gone, maybe.
The problem isn't that they disagreed with them, the problem is that they helped fugitives escape.
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They didn't know that Max and the nuns were in on the escape.
It was completely obvious, and that would be enough for them.
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They probably figured it was the captain who sabotaged the cars - Max would seem unlikely to know much about cars and the nuns less so.
By the time the Nazis got to the abbey, the family was already hiding there. Then they ran to the car and drove off as soon as Rolf alerted them. The Nazis would've known that the captain had no time to sabotage the cars.
share"It was completely obvious"
Yeah, to us, the audience, but the Nazis didn't see and hear everything that we saw and heard.
The Nazis caught Max helping them push the car. And they caught the family hiding in the abbey. And again, they would've known nobody could've possibly sabotaged the cars except the nuns.
shareIt’s based on a true story. I know the real family did not make such a dramatic escape, but they also never mentioned any of their friends getting tortured and executed.
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