This I think was what I liked the most, that redemption isn't easily earned and just realizing you "might be the bad guy" doesn't mean you aint getting a bullet in the head for what you've already done. Syril encapsulates that there is no final hour come to Jesus moment for Nazis and their enablers, they either realized much earlier the system was F-ed or they wouldn't have come along for the ride so far into the shitshow to then pull back at the last second because "oh BUT THIS is too much".

Oh, like there aren't good obnoxious jerks nobody likes.

I thought about this a lot while watching it. He would've been a great, albeit annoying bureaucrat in a communist society. It doesn't matter what the rules are, he would make sure they're followed to the letter. In his life, that meant dying for a fascist empire.

In a communist utopia, he would've made sure all the forms are filled out before getting your alottment of food or guaranteed job, or tracking down corruption in party officials, or something else indispensable that doesn't require people to like you, but does mean picking some principles and following them to the end and gives him some authority to retain some control he never got while living with his mother.