The Murderers Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns, German; 1946) As sort of an effort to counter the effect of the Nuremberg trial which seem to paint the Americans as the saviours who were forced into a war to save Europe from a group of heartless barbarians, this German film must have been released. It goes on to show the sufferings of the average German and how they pull themselves together in a heap of rubble filled Berlin. Not all Germans were privy to the atrocities done by the Nazi regime. Many were physically and psychologically traumatized. Of course, they were some who benefited from the war and carried on with their lives as if nothing happened, turning the tide to their advantage. Suzanne returns home from a concentration camp to a ruined Berlin to her half damaged apartment. Her downstairs neighbour, an optician, survived the war and continues his practice with whatever stocks that he could salvage. He is waiting patiently for his son to return from the war. He is ki...
It is all Mimesis