Due to Hungary's former alliance with the Germans, Hungarian Jews were among the last to be deported and sent to concentration camps. “In 1994 German and Hungarian collaborators worked together to deport large numbers of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Bergen 222).” This is accurately depicted in the film where, in 1944, we see Gyorgy being stopped by Hungarian police on his way to the "labour camp", but instead he was transported to a burial camp and then sent on a train to Auschwitz. Both the book and the film depict the Hungarian police as anti-Semitic and brutal. Karoly Lendvai in the book tells how a Hungarian policeman shouted at him “Rot! You Jew-Gypsy!' (Bergen 223). Before being deported to Auschwitz, this also happens in Gyorgy, when the British were bombing the surrounding areas, a Hungarian policeman shouted “you stinky Jews, we saw you sign the British