To me the SS officer playing the piano during the Krakow raid was a way for Spielberg to portray the soldiers as monsters. For them, playing a beautiful piece of music such as Mozart (but really Bach) is the same to them as shooting Jews. So playing the piano is equivalent to shooting innocent lives. The two military personnel, who are then discussing the composer of the music, show how routine it was for them to be doing what it was that they were
To me the SS officer playing the piano during the Krakow raid was a way for Spielberg to portray the soldiers as monsters. For them, playing a beautiful piece of music such as Mozart (but really Bach) is the same to them as shooting Jews. So playing the piano is equivalent to shooting innocent lives. The two military personnel, who are then discussing the composer of the music, show how routine it was for them to be doing what it was that they were