Yes, exactly! Both Shosanna and Fredrick were damaged by this war, and his trauma is just as valid as hers; it's just hard for people to deal with a character like Fredrick when the film is based off of a very real, horrific time in history. That is understandable, but not every German who served in the war was a monster. For someone very young like Fredrick, he was most likely forced into it (Hitler Youth was mandatory by 1936, which then led to military training); so many young people were indoctrinated/enlisted to fight for a future that would never come, and by the end of the war, they were dead or damaged. Tarantino stated in an interview that he wanted to make the film hard on viewers as we have to be able to see the characters from their perspective; so yes, there are awful, irredeemable characters and even ones that can be called heroes, but there are also the shades of gray, the ones who were forced to try and survive a situation larger than them, which is where Fredrick and Shosanna fall. Everything about Shosanna and Fredrick, including the way Daniel and Mélanie portrayed them, is realistic, subtle, and powerful. I suppose it's far too easy for many to view the world simplistically and in black and white, when it just isn't so.

Daniel/Mélanie is so wonderful and so very welcome, as there's not enough of it in the fandom! It also took me some time before I wrote Shosanna/Fredrick, too; the fandom was very new, I was very nervous, and so I requested a prompt for one of my friends instead. I've found, too, that they require a little more special care than the others when writing them.