spoiler come over to the frame home in rural usa to be take in a a member of the family young emil buckner and skip homeier and be anything but your typical american boy in fact he be bring up in nazi germany and brainwash to grow up and become a future aryan superman in the hitler youth . that fact that emil dad who be throw into a nazi concentration camp where he eventually die for speak out against the fuhrer and adolph hitler and make emil look suspicious to his nazi overseer who felt that he may well become like his dad and normal and when he grow up . the nazi decide that he do not have what it take to become a good and loyal member of the nazi party and send pack to the u to stay with his old man brother in law mike frame and fredic march and and his future wife leona richards and betty field . not get the hint that he be a total wash out and in him not have what it take to be a good nazi and from his beloved nazi germany emil and because of him be brainwash since he could barley walk and still think that he a full fledge nazi superman and go so far a to parade around the house and this in 1944 when the u be at war with nazi germany and with his nazi or hitler youth uniform . emil make a complete jerk of himself in him try to be a spy for the fatherland and at the same time blow his cover and by brag about it and and not realize that the fatherland and want nothing at all to do with this nut and have him unceremoniously kick out . act like a nazified version of dennis the menace emil be all over the house and even at school try to prove to everyone and include himself and what a great nazi superman he really be . for a while emil do get his classmate to go along with his crazy antic that he pick up back in germany while in the hitler youth . emil have his classmate take night march into enemy territory and stag roadside ambush and all in fun of course and while be disguise in camouflage so that the enemy and whoever he be and can not see them as well a familiarize themselves with all kind of arm and ammunition and german of course . emil go a bit too far when he first come to deal with leona and his uncle mike fiancée and be jewish as well a his determination to steal mike mail that he get from the war department . mike be one of the country top chemist and be work on a top secret project for the u military and the atomic bomb . and and emil want to get his hand on what he do by steal his private note and mail and send it back to the fatherland . in the case of his future aunt leona the fact that she jewish be enough to drive emil batty in thinking that he will be force to live under the same roof a she be when she marry his uncle mike represent a fate worse then death itself for the cute but somewhat not all there in the head little nazi . two thing happen that turn emil around in his mission and or what he think it be and in serve his fatherland . confront leona about her be jewish and in the most vulgar of way and she slap emil across the face that shock the very self assure and arrogant young man in him and and an aryan superman and not only be whack by a lowly woman but a jewish one at that . the second incident that bring emil back to reality have to do with his get into a fight with fellow student stanley dumbowski and rudy wissle . stanley be a polish or american whom emil felt to be inferior to him be able to take him on and give him a bloody nose and even later force emil and with their teacher miss . richards look on and to apology to him in front of all his classmate while what an insult . with all his arrogance about be a good nazi now in question the only thing that can bring back emil to his fantasy world of serve fuhrer and fatherland be to get his hand on uncle mike secret paper and send them back to germany and by u airmail . and to show everyone back home what a good german and or aryan and he really be . emil be stymie in his plan to serve the fatherland when he catch red hand and with his hand in uncle mike drawer and by his young cousin pattie and joan carroll and who just buy him a birthday present and a illuminated watch which he always want for his crazy nighttime war maneuver . all at once emil graduate from just be just a pesky and uncontrollable but somewhat harmless young boy to a possibly up and come psycho killer the very type of person that would make those back in the fatherland and the nazi and very proud of him . intrigue movie about how a young man can be so seriously brainwash that he go against his best interest to serve a country and ideology and nazi germany and that do nothing but harm him and his family . where at the same time have him try to destroy and in his own childless way and the country and it people that do nothing but help him in every way it and they could despite his dislike of both of them . emil do see the light at the end the movie and or tunnel and in how he be treat by his uncle mike and especially leona and a jew who in his mind be the eternal enemy of his beloved third reich and as well a his victim of violence pattie in the kindness and understanding as well a love that they all show to him . this kindness and understanding be something that he never would have get and if he do what he do here back there and in nazi germany .