He was not doing well in the battles, and was considered a fairly corrupt man. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Rather, to the exact opposite, the film's thesis is that this horrible corrupt man could have done so much good, had he not obsessed over his own fairy tale. (awardscircuit.com)
Even the film can't explain why this German Nazi factory owner, a greedy, corrupted man who never had enough drinking, gambling and womanizing, how could such a flawed man risk everything he had to save some of the people everyone around him deemed inferior. (montrealfilmjournal.com)