Despite all his efforts to keep his son safe, Guido unwittingly tells his son to go the gas chamber:
Giosué: Daddy, I cannot find any of the other kids, and a lady came telling me to take a shower.
Guido: That's a good idea. You go take a shower.
Giosué: No!
Guido: Go take a shower!
Giosué: No!
Those poor prisoners who were likely shot for unknowingly disobeying the instructions given by that Nazi guard that Our Hero deliberately mistranslated.
He told them to ask the real instructions from an actual German-speaking prisoner, so probably not.
