The Problem With "The Reader"

Though obviously not a comedy, The Reader has the same that problem that all romantic comedies (except this one) have. In order to enjoy the movie (in order for the movie not to be a complete boring waste of time) you have to care about something that I can't possibly imagine caring about. In the case of the romantic comedy, it's whether the girl and the douchebag get together. In the case of The Reader it's what happens to the illiterate murdering Nazi pedophile. She gets 20 years in jail even though she wasn't *really* the boss (just a murdering Nazi pedophile)? She figures out how to read? Who the fuck cares? She doesn't seem to figure out that child molesting or the holocaust were bad things.