Black Book

Saw an excellent Dutch/English/German/Hebrew language film last night ( Ok it had English subtitles) called "Black Book"
It was basically a wartime thriller, with overtones of the old Victor Mature film " The Scarf", where the brave resistance leader turns out to be the traitor.
Dr.Akerman ( brave resistance etc etc) turned out to have been arrested by the Gestapo and turned. He was in custody for 3 weeks.
Of course, he met his somewhat grisly end, but my thought was more on the point of what would YOU do? I know that if the Gestapo had had me for three MINUTES I would happily have done anything for them. Within us we all have the overwhelming urge to survive ( that's how we got here), and if it means betraying others then ( in our own minds) that's a price worth paying.
Think of the French collaborators , the Quislings, the Dutch traitors and so on. Would we - in the same situation- be as upright as we would like to think we would be? I doubt it very much.
There is a price that will buy ANY of us, and, to distort Bernard Shaw, " We have established what we are, we are now simply trying to ascertain the price"