He does not skateover the conduct of Allied troops who apparently looted more freely than the Germans, or the appalling record of French Moroccan troops, who raped their way through the mountains south of Rome without being held to account then or later.
Even so, this pretty bauble of a picture -- which looks like it was filmed in a giant snow globe - scrapes together enough invention, exuberance and goofiness to skateover this blatant misstep, and Roberts herself is so willing to give it the old college try you wind up rooting for her regardless.