Given Uwe Boll's track record with films like Stoic and Seed,I was expecting another pointless display of sickening cruelty and nastiness born out of the self-deluded belief that he was delivering a poignant message. To my surprise I found that this is more likely to make you laugh than gag. It was meant to be a horrifying, graphic, and realistic portrayal of the brutal acts that occurred in the titular concentration camp during WW2. Yet, the execution is so bumbling that it's far too unnatural and inexplicably tame to achieve that goal. The behavior from everyone onscreen, particularly those playing the Jewish prisoners, is flat-out unbelievable. They all line up so nonchalantly outside of Auschwitz' gates you'd think they were being checked into a convention rather than being taken record of for a savage death. Mothers don't even react to having their children ripped from their arms. Probably because of how gently the Nazis take them away before shooting them in the back of the head in a scene I'm pretty sure was reused more than once. The only time anyone looks even remotely uncomfortable is, understandably, when they're all forced to be naked around each other. The gas chamber sequences are the most shocking and explicit parts of the movie as Boll directs men, women, and children alike to strip down full-frontal and stand in a room together. You can tell this was too much for a portion of the people involved as for some baffling reason they forgot to take out a moment where one of the female extras got so embarrassed they had to give her back her clothes and let her leave, further breaking the illusion. Even Boll himself, who in what might have been a somewhat clever move is directing the action onscreen as a soldier, looks like he's feeling incredibly awkward about the whole thing. Seeing a 10-year-old's penis is about as raw and visceral as it gets however, as despite showing little restraint in the past when it came to depicting acts of torture and murder in an excruciating to witness manner Boll completely fails to show how terrible it would be to die this way. We see the actors cough a bit, lie down, and then the camera pan over their supposedly dead bodies. I say supposedly because some of them are clearly still breathing. Wasn't the whole point of this to show the true horror of these events? So why did Boll feel the need to make this movie at all? To put it simply, he believes that younger generations aren't being taught about the holocaust. A premise he inadvertently proves is false by including extended interviews with a few German students that are legitimately knowledgeable on the subject. Way to drop the ball. This might be the schlock maestros most inept piece of filmmaking. It is totally unsuccessful at everything it sets out to do and with mistakes so comedic at times that you have to wonder if Boll just didn't care or was honestly unaware of how to fix them. The worst part of all though is that some parents were so convinced that this was going to be an important movie they let their kids be nude around strangers and on film.