- Ass Pull: The identity of the mole does have some foreshadowing but feels completely inconsistent with a lot of earlier scenes, such as Hans shooting Germans and being at risk himself during the jailbreak he ratted out, and talking as if he was killing Franken on behalf of the resistance when there was no one around to put on an act for.
- Best Known for the Fanservice: Carice Van Houten provides quite some amounts of nudity in there. And there's Halina Reijn's breasts too at some point.
- Complete Monster:
- Gunther Franken is a swaggering SS officer who leaks knowledge of an "escape route" to Dutch Jews. In truth this is a trap for Franken to ambush them, murder them, and steal their valuables for himself despite this personal enrichment being punishable by death under the Reich. Conducting brutal tortures and murders against the resistance, Franken later betrays his more lenient superior Muntze to set him up for execution and flee with his stolen valuables.
- Dr. Hans Akkermans is a corrupt member of the Dutch Resistance who is secretly working for the Nazis. Through a ruse conducted as an escape to freedom, he and Van Gein secure safe passage for Jews, resistance fighters, anti-Nazis, and just plain unfortunate people into neutral or Allied territory. Shortly after leaving the dock, the boats are machine-gunned by a Nazi patrol, their bodies looted, and the spoils divided between the conspirators. Akkermans begins to kill off the conspirators, at first appearing to have had a heroic attack of conscience, only to later reveal he just didn't wish to share the wealth. Later on, he tries to kill Rachel Stein to silence her knowledge of the goings-on and hold onto his status as a war hero. He seems caring and respectable, but it all was act which got innumerable amounts of people killed solely so he could steal their heirlooms and melt them or sell them.
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