"I'm sorry about Rosie. She was a good person. An actual good person."
- Jojo makes a fake letter from Elsa's fiance breaking up with her. She withdraws into the walls and cries silently, which makes Jojo realize how horrible he was being, and he makes a second letter from the fiance apologizing for what he wrote in the first one.
- Especially after finding out that Nathan had actually died a year ago. Think back on the series of letters Jojo continued to fake, and realise that Elsa didn't tell him to stop until it was all over.
- Even after she admits Nathan's death, Elsa still thanks Jojo for writing the letters, implying that they still helped cheer her up.
- Jojo and his mother encounter a truckload of German soldiers returning from the war. Though she hates the war, Jojo's mother warmly welcomes them home. Though, their obvious injuries and the way they just stare back at her with hollow eyes without stirring or saying a word make this a Tear Jerker as well.
- Listing the Entertainingly Wrong things Jojo thinks he knows about Jews, he gets to how Jews "love ugly things"...then seems to have a Love Epiphany when he remembers he himself is (apparently) ugly and realizes what it means when applied to Elsa.
- Jojo, getting friendlier with Elsa, allows her to come outside of her hiding place one day. Elsa goes to the mirror in Jojo's sister's room and looks at herself, calling herself a "dirty Jew" somewhat sarcastically. Gilligan Cut to the next scene... and Jojo has drawn Elsa a bath and seems to be keeping watch outside.
- Captain Klenzendorf gets angry when Finkel brings literal German shepherds rather than the dogs he asked for, but then apologizes and reassures Finkel he is doing a good job.
- Klenzendorf helps Elsa evade the Gestapo by not exposing her when she looks nothing like Inge and gets Inge's birthdate wrong when questioned about it.
- Klenzendorf being there in the first place. Unbeknownst to Jojo at this point, Rosie had been caught and likely already hanged as a member of La Résistance, and the Gestapo were likely searching for anything that might have helped them find more Resistance members, and possibly punish Jojo as well, so Captain K was trying to protect him. Before he leaves, he tells Jojo to stay home and not go outside, likely to stop him seeing Rosie's body.
- Before facing a Soviet firing squad, Klenzendorf apologizes to Jojo for laughing at his book and offers condolences for the death of his mother. After giving him a hug, Klenzendorf yanks off his German soldier's coat and starts calling him a "dirty Jew" so that the Soviets will spare the boy.
- The friendship between Jojo and Yorki, and the fact that nothing in the film manages to break the latter’s innocence.
- Yorki doesn't even bat an eye when Jojo tells him he's been helping hide a Jew and even fallen in love with her, telling Jojo that there are much more important matters (the Allied invasion) than that now. It also shows that they're True Companions, because Yorki is nothing but happy for him.
- Jojo admits he has a crush on Elsa, but he knows she sees him like a little brother and is perfectly fine with it.
- Jojo and Elsa dancing in the street together, showing that both of them are free from the Nazis (Jojo from their indoctrination, and Elsa from their persecution).
- Rosie’s talks with Elsa, especially her insistence that Elsa just being alive means the Nazis haven’t won, and her speech about what it means to be a woman. This becomes a Tear Jerker when Rosie despairs that she never got to see her daughter grow up to be a woman, and concludes she’ll just have to be there to see Elsa grow up instead. She never even gets to see that, as she is executed shortly after.
- When Jojo gets home after finding his mother hanged from the gallows, he stabs Elsa. Elsa, knowing that he's just a kid who doesn't know how to process his grief, pulls the knife out and hugs him without getting mad.
- Even though Jojo's reckless behaviour at the youth camp got Klenzendorf demoted, the latter never holds it against him. He mentions this fact only once (in a matter-of-fact way), and otherwise shows that he genuinely cares for his well-being. (In retrospect, he was probably happy to be less involved with Nazi atrocities.)
