Less impressively, the film didn’t seem concerned about acknowledging the enormity of horror inflicted on Czechs and Poles (and others) to inspire such savage retaliation. And too often there was a tendency to equate crimes of vengeance with the systematic industrial-scale inhumanity of the Third Reich. Many viewers may also have felt that the film’s condemnation of the postwar expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe as “the largest ethnic cleansing in history” wasn’t only too strident but downright insensitive.