"Hotel Terminus..." is much more than a "hunt down a fugitive Nazi" motion picture. It offers the best exploration of (political) collusion with evil I have ever seen on the screen. Everyone, of every ideological (facist, conservative, liberal, revolutionary socialist) stripe, is complicit, save the likable two farmer twins---members of the French Resistance. One complicit character"comes clean", a most unlikeable aging royal. His explanation for signing up as a wartime French volunteer for the German military's Wehrmacht is entirely plausible. His remorse believable. Everyone else (but the twins} hide from the truth. Humanity is scary!

Evidently, being a sheep during rough times is more than common. "Hotel Terminus..." proves, it's the rule!