Rome, Open City

Two of the scenes that stuck out to me had to do with the Nazis. The scene with the drunk high-ranking officer telling the higher-ranking officer he has seen people the Nazis deemed inferior showing great character and courage. Character and courage that the officer in charge attributes to the "master race". He was a drunk man having a moment of clarity. The officer in charge believed wholeheartedly that the Italian man was going to talk. In the officer's mind, he would eventually talk due to the fact that he was part of a "slave race". To him, Italian people don't have strong character or that much courage. If the torture did not break him, that would mean there is no difference between the "master race" and the "slave race". The final scene stuck out to me also because it shows a few Nazi soldiers having some humanity when they refused to shoot the priest.  Perhaps those particular soldiers respected the courage that he had shown and felt like they would be cowards to shoot a defenseless man of God.