"Their swastikas are now small tokens on chests of medals. They look more like airline pilots than Nazi soldiers."
Of course he is referring to the Wehrmacht eagle on the right breast of the tunic. (This included a small swastika.) But it is clear that he is crazy with rage that the filmmaker actually used historical markings and not the ones Freidmann wanted.
And I must also comment on Freidmann's last few sentences.
"But frankly, when the violins come out at the end of the film, and Singer flashes their written fates on the screen, I felt nothing for them and anger for him. The idea that you’re supposed to feel anything but revulsion for all these people is astonishing to me."
He will be happy to know that his feelings towards the conspirators were shared by most of the German Army, almost all of the SS and most of the Nazi party.
I’ve never seen a Tom Cruise movie all the way through; the bits I have seen, he’s been too annoying for me to watch for very long. Whiny voice, blank, vacant eyes. “Valkyrie” sounds like a good idea, but not with Cruise in it.
I’ll wait for Viggo in “Good”.