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" The most disturbing thing about The Patriot is not just that German director Roland Emmerich ( director of Independence Day ) and his screenwriter Robert Rodat ( who was criticized for excluding British, Canadian ( Juno Beach ) and other Allied soldiers from his script for Saving Private Ryan ) depicted British troops as committing savage atrocities, but that those atrocities bear such a close resemblance to war crimes carried out by German troops — particularly the SS in World War II.

It's hard not to wonder if the filmmakers have some kind of subconscious agenda .... They have made a film that will have the effect of inoculating audiences against the unique historical horror of Oradour — and implicitly rehabilitating the Nazis while making the British seem as evil as history's worst monsters .... So it's no wonder that the British press sees this film as a kind of blood libel against the British people.