Only with "Jenseits des Krieges" (released in the US as "East of War") in 1996, a documentary directed by Ruth Beckermann dealing with the public's reaction to the exhibition "War of Extermination" in Vienna in 1995, did a German film admit to "Wehrmacht" war crimes being commonplace instead of an exception to the rule. Some veterans in "Jenseits des Krieges" denied that the German Army committed any war crimes at all while others express relief at long last that the truth has been told. One critic wrote of the veterans in "Jenseits des Krieges" that "Some are sorry for their brutality, while others rationalize such acts as shooting POWs, raping women and butchering Jewish people as part of what soldiers were expected to do".