re: Zone of interest is great

I'm sorry, I didn't phrase that right. He died awhile back, I think in his late 70's or early 80's. The townspeople who put out the white flags were hanged by diehard loyalist nazis (using ropes, not the flags). Post-war Germany was a very, very hard time, though in Bavaria they weren't starving so much, as it was an agricultural area. It was also in the American zone, so they had it better here. There were like 4 or 5 "work camps" in the immediate area where the prisoners were basically worked to death and fed poorly. Lots of disease, and it gets cold in the winter...