This is a prisoner-of-war camp of the Wehrmacht, not a concentration camp of the SS. Therefore, this film also reflects the Western attitude towards the distinction between ordinary German combat troops and the SS against war crimes.
Of course, in order to express the idea of the supremacy of the law, the film portrays the German officer in the POW camp as a person who believes in the law (and is a graduate of Harvard Law School). Whether the German POW camps were historically so just, I don't know, it remains to be verified.
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