You mean "Decision before dawn". And I think that his actions were wrong, he killed the same poor sons he was shortly before. Now if he had participated in missions to kill Nazi leaders, that would have been a difference. I don´t despise him either, but he wasn´t a hero in my eyes.
WW2 is a tragedy, from the very first start. A tragedy for all involved. There were only losers afterwards, the victory tasted bitter, although the right side won. If Chamberlain hadn´t agreed to Munich 1938, Hitler would have been stopped by the military resistance before he had been in Prague. But after Munich, he was too strong. The early defeats of Poland and France contributed to his image of the unbeatable, so it only increased the terror.
I guess that must be it. I have never seen the movie. I read an account of the young German soldier and his attempt to prevent an ambush of the US forces, as told by the CCB Surgeon in his book. He often got pressed into this kind of work because of his German and French language skills. It was an interesting account, and clearly laid out a conflict between an officer from Texas, and the young man who tried to explain that his loyalty was to freedom, culture, and civilization, not to the name on the map. I wonder where that young man is today.
The doctor was a Roosevelt Democrat, and retired after a full career in Chicago. His account of a party after liberation put on by the Resistance was very moving.
The frequent and expected atrocities of the SS, and the extremely measured US response: Because of the loss of ambulances to German fire, to not send wounded soldiers back for treatment after operations began in Germany.
The horror of the concentration camps, to a doctor, who tried to treat the inmates with the one thing they really needed: food.
I regret to say, I sent the book to my son for his 18th birthday, and can't seem to recall the name. Its hell getting old.