_ The fact that people, in their majority, were unaware of the destination of the death trains.
_ The incredible Nazi obsession to chase the Jews until the last moment, even though they were losing the war
_ Schizophrenia SS, ferocious killers same directors minute time, the "delicacies" surprising: the head of the Gestapo in Nice does not undress the children before him, he sends them to a doctor, in another room. We treat thoughtfully sick prisoners, while they in other torture in the cellar ...
_ Resisters were not all clean, and staff not always rotten. The prestige of Petain recalled. Similarly for the Italians, presented in a rather friendly.
There is also the black market smugglers, corrupt or real, ordinary Righteous, all the people that we see for the last time without knowing it ... Anyway, the main aspects of this tragic period are mentioned, with honesty which, curiously, is lacking in film Jacques Doillon from the book. Thus, a good priest who takes the children under his wing on its own will end up on the screen in the guise of a kind of selfish hedonist, saving children almost against the heart. To believe that for some, anticlericalism comes before truth.
Finally, despite the deaths, despite the fear, despite stolen childhood, leaves the impression that this book is positive, faces life. It's almost a victory.
