... standings as a world power, but eventually only found themselves to be devastated by the aftermath of the war. In the final scenes of the film, Rosenthal tells Marechal that the Swiss-German border was "man-made and invisible" and that "nature doesn't give a damn". The border is symbolic of all the boundaries between "captivity and freedom ... ...

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... , and `the necessity for war no longer follows from a difference of opinion' (Luard 1992: 416). Bentham showed that federal states such as the German Diet, the American Confederation, and the Swiss League were able to transform their identity from one based on conflicting interests to a more peaceful federation. As Bentham famously argued, `between the interests of nations there is nowhere any ... ...

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