Three films with great craft to recommend. These are non-Rainer Fassbinder, as every feature by the German master is class.
Das schreckliche Mädchen (1990)
Pacy West German production. A teenage girl uncovers her town's Nazi past.
Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (2005)
Scholl was 21 when she and other White Rose members were famously executed.
Bitterne ernte AKA Angry Harvest (1985)
War time examination of morality with strong script.