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I find it difficult to believe there was no Wiesler. The nature of secret organizations is that they can only be known incompletely. Were there no acts of compassion, redemption, kindness? I liked the movie for offering that people survive despite the seeming monolithic seamless paranoia. But it isn't and can't be.
I see the point of Dr Knabe- but there is much more nuance to his glib example has which he elides. War profiteering isn't exactly a virtue even if the greater good was served by saving lives. And, the issue- as presented in the movie- was cultural rather than political. The only political act was betrayal although to be sure being a DDR citizen was in effect to betray.