Yes, I did see it. It is very good. There needs to be more movies on the capitulation of Germany, which is little known or talked about time in our history. For reasons unknown, it is considered "politically incorrect" to detail German suffering during and after WWII. The Germans in particular embrace this. Everyone wants to think the Allies liberated everything and the war was over. The true horrors for Germany came after their surrender. Many POWs died in POW camps and many (especially those sent to the Soviet Union) never made it home. It is a war crime to hold prisoners after the war, especially if you finish them off in a cruel manner. The Soviets specifically held on to POWs as late as 1955, 10 years after the war. You are supposed to release them as soon as possible in accordance with the Geneva Convention. The use of POWs for demining is also illegal and against the Geneva Convention. Everybody lost their dignity to the highest degree.
Judge Robert H. Jackson, Chief US prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, in October 1945 told US President Harry S. Truman that the Allies themselves:
"have done or are doing some of the very things we are prosecuting the Germans for. The French are so violating the Geneva Convention in the treatment of prisoners of war that our command is taking back prisoners sent to them. We are prosecuting plunder and our Allies are practicing it."
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