"I'm up to my neck in double-crosses in this damned country," moans the American hero of Verboten!, a film created to explore, in Fuller's words, "the most important question that has arisen out of the Second World War: what is the difference between a Nazi and a German?" Fuller dramatizes-and personalizes-the chaos of confused identities in postwar Germany in an anti-love story, in which a young German woman marries the above-mentioned American soldier as a "meal-ticket" while still maintaining close ties to a furious neo-Nazi group. The jading of his naive love is nothing compared with the hurdles she must jump if she is to love him. Fuller provides the hurdles: the ex-reporter cum film director works into his pulp fiction considerable documentary material from the Nuremberg trials, which he rubs in the face of his characters (and audience) to drive home a point. Eric Sherman writes, "Verboten!...speaks directly to the question: where does individual responsibility end and national identity take over? Perhaps the most explicitly chaotic of Fuller's war films...Hysteria is Verboten!'s major motif. Intercutting documentary footage with movie studio set-ups; mingling long-take scenes with rapid montage sequences; fluctuating between Beethoven and Wagner on the soundtrack, Verboten! points to a world truly gone berserk."