Review of Fatherland

I come from the Channel Islands: the only part of Britain occupied by the Germans during the war, where they ran a "model occupation" designed to show the rest of the world how benevolent Nazi rule was. I find this film only too believable - touches such as the SS becoming merely a police force, whilst keeping the black uniforms, were chillingly real. Everything nasty was "brushed under the carpet" whilst presenting a civilized face to the world - exactly what would have happened.

I thought the ending was indeed unrealistic - Maguire would not have been able to reach the President's car, and a major diplomatic summit would not have been abandoned over one bundle of unsubstantiated evidence; but it was hardly a happy ending, given what happened to March and Maguire.