word escape me . perhaps ludicrous and contrived and insulting come close . there be nothing factual about the depiction of the holocaust in this ridiculous and totally unbelievable mess . death camp be not nasty place where people tot weight around and get a little dirty but remain shaven and be able to keep their son not only hidden but alive and well despite a starvation diet and have access to record and phonograph and loud speaker and could basically move about at will and suffer little more than the inconvenience of a run down board house . this movie claim the camp where our hero sojourn be a death camp and ( not one of the thousand of concentration camp that be locate throughout nazi occupied territory ) complete with gas chamber and oven . there be only six death camp and all in poland and and all be dedicate and absolutely dedicate and to the dehumanization unto hideous death of their inmate . slow agonize demise from zyklon b be the easy part while twenty minute of choke and while claw at your throat and eye and it be over . the devastate removal of every vestige of humanity through constant beating and lack of sleep and lack of food and water and lack of any semblance of medical care and torment that eat away at body and spirit over endless day and be the intolerable part . no one ever speak to a guard without be shoot on the spot . guido would not have be take around a bend to be kill and he would have be shot and or beat to death and or hang and publically to display for the other prisoner both his impotence and the nazi total control over life itself . it be absolutely impossible for a boy to have be hide for a day much less week in a death camp . to depict this living hell a a stalag full of schultz and largely ignore at least one of the inmate and who get to clean up and wait table and with his son and no less and be an insult to every person who have be touch by the real horror of the holocaust . this would have be a great propaganda film for goebbels to have show to the red cross to show how humane the nazi really be . if this be mean to work a some laugh your way through life trouble allegory and then a vehicle more appropriate than the great genocide ever perpetrate by man against man should have be choose a the vehicle . a it stand this movie be a travesty .