10 More Insanely Accurate War Movie Details

Towards the end of the routinely funny and sometimes quite devastating Taika Waititi comedy war film Jojo Rabbit, the titular Hitler Youth member finds himself in the middle of a war zone as the Allied forces attack Nazi Germany.

And the surreal visual of tons of children running into battle against these troops was likely enough to distract viewers away from a pretty fascinating and actually quite accurate detail during this climactic showdown.

You see, as pointed out by an r/MovieDetail user, the various weapons the kids are seen picking up and firing throughout this sequence are all either outdated, cheaply made, or even foreign ones, with this being a nod to the fact Germany were very much running out of materials as WWII reached its conclusion. 

So, in the end, they were forced to arm their troops with anything they could get their hands on, something the director-writer, who also plays the most flamboyant Hitler you'll ever see, brilliantly alludes to here in a surprisingly subtle way.