The exhibition proved that the Wehrmacht was very much involved in the killings of civilians, mainly Jews, and prisoners of war.
Every army exists because its soldiers and officers are willing to obey orders.
Nevertheless there were German officers (a small minority) who refused to kill civilians, although they got the order to do so. They were not punished for their refusal.
As was pointed out to me during my visit there (February 2007) certain doctors and psychiatrists in the US army refused to work in Guantánamo Bay. They were not punished for this refusal.
Not only this documentary but also other movies by Michael Verhoeven are worth seeing.
In the unsurpassed movie theater Quad Cinemas I saw last night the documentary “The Unknown Soldier” by the German director Michael Verhoeven.
The immediate cause for this movie was the exhibition “Crimes of the German Wehrmacht”, which caused considerable discussion in Germany a couple of years ago.
For a long time the myth existed that the Wehrmacht (in other words the ordinary German soldier) was not involved in any of the crimes of the Nazi-regime.