Whoa. (a comment from Reddit on little known film facts)
In Inglorious Basterds, the burning of the cinema at the end parallels the actual church burning by the Nazis at Oradour-sur-Glane where women and children were locked within the building and burned alive.
In fact most of the movie sees us compelled to cheer on our protagonists as they commit war crimes and atrocities (scalping, carving foreheads, summary execution, etc) and we feel permitted to enjoy this because they are morally superior and justified in their actions given our knowledge of the vileness of their enemy and what they have inflicted upon our heroes.
Yet this is exactly the pervasive mentality the Nazis used in reality to justify atrocities against the Jews and other minorities.
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