Why was Elsa crying?
During the book burning scene, why was she crying?
shareShe wasn't totally nazi.
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This scene does not make sense to me.
shareYou just didn't understand it.
sharewhat exactly?
shareI already answered. Also, read Darren's reply below.
shareEverything is fine, but still it does not make sense to me that she cried in the way she did, with so many nazis around.
shareThe nazis were busy burning books, they didn't pay attention if some female looked sad. This is exactly the reason why I can usually stay on chat boards like this no more than few minutes at the time. Stupid questions and comments like the one from the OP pisses me off.
shareClearly. “Some female.”
Why so mad? I skip irritating posts.
She is a Nazi but perhaps she hasnt completely bought into all the propeganda and has a mind of her own, and realizes what a travesty her party has partaken.
shareI didn't take her for a Nazi, but merely as a totally amoral opportunist (which also explains why she seduced both Joneses to get information from them). She worked with the Nazis and Walter Donovan because they were after the Holy Grail too, but I don't think she had any particular belief in Nazi ideology. And the burning of books pained her because, whatever her moral failings, she was a scholar, and to see people joyfully destroying the painfully accumulated knowledge of generations was genuinely upsetting for her.
shareShe explains it pretty well herself.
Elsa: You came back for the book? Why?
Indiana Jones: My father didn't want it incinerated.
Elsa: Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!
Indiana Jones: You stood up to be counted with the enemies of everything the Grail stands for! Who gives a *damn* what you believe?
Good explanation
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