Victorious Victims

It is hard to say that there is a clear "victim" in Hangmen Also Die! The Czech people are clearly targeted, rounded up, oppressed, and killed by the Nazis. However, the Czech people overcome all of this to achieve their own means of victory in the end, even if it is not absolute. As a result, the Nazis end up looking foolish in not being able to weed out the true murderer and place the blame on the man the Czech people framed, fully knowing it was not him. So on one hand, you have the Czech people, oppressed and murdered as victims of the German Occupation, and on the other hand you have the Nazis, outsmarted by the same everyday people that they are supposedly ruling over. I would say that the Czech people suffered both the greatest losses and engineered the most meaningful victory in Hangmen Also Die! In essence, you could say they were the victims, but they had a clear moral victory as well.