I wasn't exactly talking about the whole German people or even the entire German army. I was rather referring to the SS soldiers. In case this helps clarify, I never said every SS soldier was a con man. I was just raising the possibiliites. There was a peculiar way these people were portrayed in "The Pianist" where they were doing more than just following orders. They were becoming monsters. Look at the drunk German officer who says he beats Jews at this night because it's New Years. Or those Germans who taunt these Jews in Poland to dance when they're not in the mood to. As a matter of fact, the SS men were the cause of these horrible crimes going on in the Holocaust. Hitler wanted this division of soldiers set up for a reason. If you were to be apart of this unit, you had to have a natural ability to be cruel and what not. At the end of the war, the Americans ordered all the SS soldiers in command to be executed. No, not the German soldiers in general, the SS Soldiers. The German who helped Szpilman wasn't apart of the SS. He wasn't cruel enough or even cruel at heart besides just simply following orders. I mean, these SS soldiers were the worst kind of soldiers imaginable. I would like to believe there's some innocent, humane or good soul who happened to be a SS soldier but I just can't think of any. I don't mean to generalize but that's just the way it was. I can definitely imagine that there were Germans and German soldiers who had good hearts and perhaps didn't believe Hitler's ambitions and words when he was in power but SS soldiers, it's really hard.