There was a lot in the movie that was not real to me.

They all spoke English English like you said.

That kid prisoner had a lot of free time on his hands. No guards or other prisoners around.

They gave him a wheel barrel he never had anything in it.

That same kid finds his way into the commandant's house. He gets caught eating food by an SS guard their driver. He yells at the commandants son. That is not a good way to get ahead.

The German kid said he did not give the kid food. With friends like him who needs enemies.

The kid turns up he is not dead just a little booboo near his eye.

The wife changed after she saw the the temper of her husband. Like she never saw it before?

The German kid was never brain washed by the father as yet?

Yes they tried to make it a tear jerker. My wife was shocked at the ending.

I did what I always did at the ending emotionally on tragic events I asked her to bring me in some veal parm.