Ambiguity as a key factor in Romance In Minor Key

I would agree with Silberman's claim that Romance In Minor Key is, in significant ways, not in alignment with Nazi rhetoric of the time--in its "absence of violence, heroic themes, and visual monumentality" (as opposed to, say, Triumph of the Will, which incorporated these elements in copious amounts), its lack of a neat sense of closure at the film's end, even its French source material. Despite this, Silberman asserts, the potentially subversive effects of the film are "channeled into a direction that could not threaten the regime." In total, it is, naturally, not openly subversive (it could not possibly have been and hoped to have ciruculation), but instead was a rather ambiguous film that could perhaps be read as condemning the characters' actions (especially those characters having values not aligned with the Nazi party, such as Madeleine, who obviously is not a good example of the "proper" woman in the 3rd Reich), but at the same time could be read as critiquing a society in which individuals' true desires must be suppressed. In the context of the first type of reading, the film shows that when someone behaves out of alignment with Nazi values, as Madeleine did, she drags others down with her, even people with the "correct" authoritarian value orientation, like her husband-- this reading of the film is very favorable to a Nazi audience, because it would have showed the extreme danger and selfishness of defying the status quo for so-called personal happiness. However, the film is just as easily, if not more easily, readable as showing a situation from which there is no way out: Madeleine does not find happiness in the "correct" sources, nor is it indicated that she could have; and it can be very strongly argued that her husband's downfall is a result of his authoritarian personality, not in spite of it. What, in the end, is probably most striking and significant about this film as compared with others from the 3rd Reich is that it doesn't end neatly with a clear moral message-- this ambiguity would allow it to pass censorship, but at the same time would not require the film to strongly uphold the values of Nazi propaganda at the time.