History YMMV / TheManInTheGlassBooth

* FairForItsDay: Nowadays most audiences know the enormity of Nazi crimes, after having watched films which get into far more detail on the Holocaust, thus the film seems like its giving a CaptainObviousAesop while also glazing over details of the Holocaust given more coverage in other works. At [[TheSeventies the time]], however, this was not as widely known to the American audiences, and it was one of the first films about the subject to reach a wide audience.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Nowadays most audiences know the enormity of Nazi crimes, after having watched films which get into far more detail on the Holocaust, thus the film seems like its giving a CaptainObviousAesop while also glazing over details of the Holocaust given more coverage in other works. At [[TheSeventies the time]], however, this was not as widely known, and it was one of the first films about the subject to reach a wide audience.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Nowadays most audiences know the enormity of Nazi crimes, after having watched films which get into far more detail on the Holocaust. At [[TheSeventies the time]], however, this was not as widely known, and it was one of the first films about the subject to reach a wide audience.

* NightmareFuel: What Colonel's Dorf's troops did with the bodies of Jews' they killed in the Ghetto[[spoiler:-they formed a pyramid of corpses]]. It was filmed and shown in movie theaters all over Poland to warn the Poles against resisting. {{Squick}}.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Nowadays most audiences know the enormity of Nazi crimes, after having watched films which go into far more detail on the Holocaust. At [[TheSeventies the time]], however, this was not as widely known, and it was one of the first films about the subject to reach a wide audience.

* CompleteMonster: Dorf comes off as this during his trial, gleefully admitting to making the Jewish prisoners do pointless yet back-breaking work to look good at headquarters, and making bets on how many would survive each day. He also characterizes duty in concentration camps as much sought after, since the men thus avoided combat and were free to do largely as they pleased if they met headquarters' goals. The atrocities were simply icing on the cake for them.

* NightmareFuel: What Colonel's Dorf's troops did with the bodies of Jews' they killed in the Ghetto [[spoiler:-they formed a pyramid of corpses]]. It was filmed and shown in movie theaters all over Poland to warn the Poles against resisting. {{Squick}}.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: What Colonel's Dorf's troops did with the bodies of Jews' they killed in the Ghetto [[spoiler:-they formed a pyramid of corpses]]. It was filmed and shown in movie theaters all over Poland to warn the Poles against resisting. {{Squick}}.

* CompleteMonster: Dorf comes off as this during his trial, gleefully admitting to making the Jewish prisoners do pointless yet back-breaking work to look good at headquarters, and making bets on how many would survive each day. He also characterizes duty in concentration camps as much sought after, since the men thus avoided combat and were free to do largely as they pleased if met headquarters' goals. The atrocities were simply icing on the cake.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: What Colonel's Dorf's troops did with the bodies of Jews' they killed in the Ghetto [[spoiler: a pyramid of corpses]]. It was filmed and shown in movie theaters all over Poland to warn the Poles against resisting. Squick.