The Murderers Are Among Us Analysis
After World War two was over, a lot of things changed for the Germany. Nobody trust them anymore, people blamed them for everything, and also nobody was willing to help them. Everything was ruined and destroyed, and so they needed to build everything from the start. Also now there was two Germanys. GDR and FRG. They were all Germans, but they had different beliefs. Their idea about who was responsible for the war and everything else was different. The difference is obvious in The Murderers Are Among Us and The Bridge. In The Murderers Are Among Us, most of them were guilty somehow. While in The Bridge, the idea is that all the Generals and Hitler were responsible for anything that happened, and the rest of them had no power or guilt about anything
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There was no blame on the soldiers. The director tried to show them innocent. And especially the kids. Nobody blamed them for dreaming about their letters to go to the war. Nobody blamed them for killing those American soldiers, but everybody blamed those generals that sent those kids to the war, everybody blamed Hitler for starting everything. And that’s the real difference between the two movies and the two Germanys. If The Bridge was made by the GDR, they would have blamed the kids a little bit too. They would have mentioned that those kids wanted to go to the war themselves. They all had the chance to somehow not go to the war, but they all stayed. They even had the chance to leave the bridge and go back, but they decided to stay. So they were guilty too. Although, once again it’s not something to judge easily. Those kids were guilty for wanting to go to war and killing people, but at the same time they were not that much to blame either. Because for years they were taught to love their fatherland. They were taught that when it comes to serving your country, even if it means to sacrifice yourself, you have to do it. And so those kids weren’t that much to blame at the end. They were just kids. They didn’t know what was actually going
There was no blame on the soldiers. The director tried to show them innocent. And especially the kids. Nobody blamed them for dreaming about their letters to go to the war. Nobody blamed them for killing those American soldiers, but everybody blamed those generals that sent those kids to the war, everybody blamed Hitler for starting everything. And that’s the real difference between the two movies and the two Germanys. If The Bridge was made by the GDR, they would have blamed the kids a little bit too. They would have mentioned that those kids wanted to go to the war themselves. They all had the chance to somehow not go to the war, but they all stayed. They even had the chance to leave the bridge and go back, but they decided to stay. So they were guilty too. Although, once again it’s not something to judge easily. Those kids were guilty for wanting to go to war and killing people, but at the same time they were not that much to blame either. Because for years they were taught to love their fatherland. They were taught that when it comes to serving your country, even if it means to sacrifice yourself, you have to do it. And so those kids weren’t that much to blame at the end. They were just kids. They didn’t know what was actually going