Foreign Movie Review: Labyrinth of Lies (2015) AA

Labyrinth of Lies is a very important move that shows the German people coming to grips with the atrocities committed by their people during WWII.  Just recently  a new memorial was opened in Berlin.  "Holocaust of Bullets ", deals with the millions killed by the Germans in Eastern Europe during the second world war.

It has taken over 50 years for honest men and women to deal with the past horrors committed by their fathers and grandfathers

The movie shows a postwar Germany where young people are shielded from the atrocities carried out by their parents, neighbors and bosses. Most of them are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. It seems stranger than fiction that such crimes against humanity could be systematically buried, but the movie is based on a true story.

In the film  a journalist identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz, but no one wants to take notice. However, a young prosecutor takes on the case and can't even be stopped by his boss. During his research he realizes that some Germans claim that they never heard the expression "Auschwitz," while others try to forget about it. As the prosecutor doesn't give up, the Attorney General Fritz Bauer retains him to take charge of the investigations. Struggling with an overload of information, the young attorney blunders into a labyrinth of guilt and lies where he almost gets lost.

The movie end when the results of one of the first trials of German atrocities . . . performed by Germans . . . was held in Frankfurt in the early 1960's.

Strange that we in the United States have never dealt with the atrocities performed by our elders on the Native Americans.