In modern popular culture, it’s springtime for Hitler all year round. Harmony, Barry Manilow’s musical about Jewish members of a Nazi-era barbershop ensemble, has just closed on Broadway. Meanwhile on the US west coast, The Zone of Interest, written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, is up for five Oscars, including best picture, at Sunday’s Academy Awards. A week after its release in Germany, though, how is the British director’s Auschwitz drama going down in the land where the Holocaust originated? After largely ecstatic reviews in the English-speaking world, German critics have been more ambivalent – as were audience members who...