Submits completely, becoming a tool for her father's dark perversions and a continuation of the system.

The film's focus, however, is not on the fathers or their political crimes, but on the younger generation. We see the story primarily through the eyes of (LucĂ­a Knecht), the teenage daughter of the Krauss family. As she observes her parents' uneasy complicity with the newcomers, she also forms complex relationships with the fugitives' children: Gretel , Hans , and the youngest, Emma .

, many critics praised the film for its:

: The horror does not come from tanks or concentration camp fences, but from the dinner table, the bedroom, and family dynamics.

A prime example is . Born in 1922, she joined the Nazi party at 19 and trained as a camp guard. She served in RavensbrĂŒck before being transferred to the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland. Survivors recount her as a brutal figure, known for her severity. She would personally select prisoners for the gas chambers, beat women and children mercilessly, and was even said to have kicked a small child while she was pregnant. For these acts, she was explicitly nicknamed "La Bruja de Hitler". After the war, Wallisch evaded justice for decades, eventually living freely in Vienna until her death in 2008.

Even the real occultists around the Nazis (Wiligut, Himmler’s astrologer Wilhelm Wulff) were men. The idea of “Hitler’s witch” is pure fantasy, and “better” has no referent.

By treating the real-world historical phenomenon of as a dark, grim fairy tale, the movie offers a far deeper, more haunting analysis of historical trauma than standard Hollywood period pieces.

A more widely known reference is the book "La Bruja de Hitler" (which translates to "Hitler's Witch" in English), written by the Spanish author, Ignacio Lasierra, but I couldn't find much information about it.

The Thule Society was a post-WWI German occult group that funded the German Workers’ Party (precursor to the Nazi Party). Its rituals involved “Germanic witches” as symbolic figures. But no individual witch sat beside Hitler.