I watched Cross of Iron and I thought it was an amazing denunciation of Nazism by saying “look at these stupid, hollow men and their threadbare rationalizations, and hypocrisies, and so on” and then when I looked back at it in college when I wanted to write a paper on it, I realized, no, the director is saying “Those rationalizations are valid and completely exonerate Steiner, and the German army, and maybe even Stranksy”