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Another reason is that sometimes the more unbelievable parts of the story are the ones that happened in real life. Take the film "Schindler's List" which is based on the real life Oskar Schindler. The villain of the film, Amon Goeth, who is also a real life character. One of the few complaints of the movie was that Goeth was a bit over the top, even for fictional portrayals of Nazis in modern media, but in actuallity, Goeth was toned down because the real life horrors he was committing were so unbelievable, the audiences would think they were over the top. Without going into too much details here Goeth holds a distinction for being fired by his superiors from his role as as a commander of a Nazi concentration camp for "mistreating the prisoners".

There are some things in fact that are crazier than the willing suspension of disbelief will allow in fiction.

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