The story roughly tells about a young private named Herold, an ordinary German Wehrmacht during World War II, but started a crazy slaughter trip because of a captain's uniform he found.
The entire film is presented in black and white, in stark contrast to the doomsday madness of war. This is the last moment in Hitler's Germany, and everything is no longer as orderly as it was in Hitler's days at its peak. Deserters can be seen everywhere. Because they have guns in their hands, they invade ordinary villagers at will, and atrocities such as robbery, theft, and rape occur frequently. And Herold was also one of the fleeing soldiers, and encountered another deserter during the escape process. We can call him Deserter Armor. The two were found for stealing and were greeted by the villagers. Herold escaped by chance. After this greeting, he fled, but the deserter A was not so lucky, and was stabbed on the spot and captured alive.
So far, Herold was a fugitive who fled, but then, Herold's crazy journey officially started. The sinful fascist captain's uniform was discovered by Herold, and he immediately put on this symbol. Captain's uniform with power and killing. And the first business opened was another deserter, an older deserter. His slightly restrained salute made the fake captain Herold suddenly feel a sense of reality, and the young man was happy to accept this fact. , and put the veterans under his command. The old soldier prepared a car for him, and served Herold with the courtesy of an officer.
After returning to the village where he fled due to theft, Herold staged a good show for the villagers to investigate on the front line with a special mission. He successfully deceived the villagers and got food. Showing off his feet, he deliberately eats simple food to enjoy high-end enjoyment. In order to further prove himself, he raised his gun and shot the deserter A with whom he once had a relationship. This incident indirectly allowed him to establish the concept of going from a counterfeit to a genuine one.
Along the way, three deserters who were making trouble at the farmhouse were included, and one of the three who looked like the leader of the deserters found out that Herold might be a fake captain, but it didn't matter, he belonged to the fallen. , Now the fake captain Herold can let them escape the punishment of being deserters, why not do it, which is why he deliberately did not expose Herold. And Herold took a more formal name for his temporary unit, "H Special Action Team". As the story unfolded, Herold's special operations team even included an anti-aircraft gun. The group's actions appear to be more scaled and formalized.
Under the cover of "collecting information on the front line for the head of state", he was repeatedly interrogated by the military police and questioned by the officers of Camp No. 2, and he became more firm in the fact that he was a captain at heart. With the help of the camp manager Hurt, he managed to bring Camp 2 into his sphere of power. After excessively concentrating power in the hands of this young man, he began a massacre in the name of clearing the troops of bad habits. Some of the fleeing soldiers detained in Camp 2 were beaten to death, and some were bombarded with anti-aircraft guns. A fake captain fleeing from the battlefield, he crossed the wartime judiciary, killed at will, and held the power of life and death for deserters. This seems to imply that Germany during Hitler's rule was in such an excessive concentration of power, in front of the will of the Führer. , and any other state agencies and departments are nothing.
One might ask why Herold's random slaughter farce did not arouse suspicion. In fact, this also has to be seen from the background at that time. At that time, Germany was completely dominated by the will of the head of state. Any institution or individual was transferred by the will of the head of state, and Herold was in the power struggle in the second camp. After the victory, he was the head of the second camp, and the whole camp was based on his will, which was actually a satire of Germany at that time. After all, it is hard for the soldiers of the German army who made many massacres in concentration camps and acts of aggression to die under the guns and whips of their comrades.
The killing farce ended in the bombing of Camp II by British aircraft.
Once again, Herold managed to survive under enemy fire. In the next town, in the face of the mayor who raised his flag and surrendered, he did not say a word and carried out an on-the-spot shooting on the grounds of clearing the atmosphere. So far, all of Herold's actions have been carried out in the name of serving the country and the head of state, which seems to be quite altruistic. But in front of Mei Se, he executed his special operations team because of jealousy, and the one who executed the leader of the three deserters at that time was the deserter who found that he was a fake captain, but was sentenced to death At the time, he never revealed the identity of Herold's fake captain because he felt that even if he did say it now, other people would not believe it, or even unwilling to believe it. . This is also the vent of Herold's own selfish desires.
After a scene of drunkenness and sweet dreams, Herold was finally discovered by the military police and handed over to the judicial department for approval. The trial scene was another farce, and the defense even thought Herold's crazy behavior was sympathetic. This is a satire of Hitler's actions at that time, and it is also a tone for many war criminals who had blood on their hands to excuse themselves. It was even finally decided that he would be sent to the front line to fight, and he could lead the battle as a qualified commander and restore the will of the front line to lose.
Herold fled again after the trial, and when the camera finally explained that he walked over the bones, it also implied that he had committed a heinous crime, killed countless comrades, and eventually set foot on the road leading to death. the way.
The whole film is adapted from a true story, and there are many places worthy of our reflection.
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