The perspective of those around the dictator

Kira 2022-03-21 09:01:18

I was about to clear the hard drive, and I just put one in. At first, I didn't even pay attention to the name. When I turned on the speaker, I found that it was spoken in German. At the beginning I thought it was a documentary, and then a row of ladies was taken to let Hitler draft, the draft? Choosing a secretary is a turning point in the fate of the protagonist, Ms. Jung.
After seeing Wikipedia, I realized that this film was very influential and well received. It turned out that no German-speaking person had played Hitler before. For Hitler’s last days, my impression is described in the history books. The Soviet Red Army was approaching the city, Hitler and his mistress (although they had their wedding a few days ago, but they still call Eva in the book) committed suicide, and that photo was taken. Poorly printed photos of charred corpses. In the two-hour movie, the last days are magnified and I saw the last days of a dictator. Some people say that the depiction is too human. In fact, this kind of reality makes people feel that the dictator brings humanity. s damage.
In fact, I have always been puzzled. Why did the Germans listen to a hysterical Hitler in the middle of the last century? In fact, this film answers some of the questions. The people around him are loyal and indulgent towards him, so that in the end this monster did not believe in the army. No, the people around had to follow the orders against the lost army, so that he died and many people died for him.
At the end of the film, Ms. Jung said about her reflection on this experience. It’s just a secretary, typing, no order was given by her, so she didn’t think she was wrong. The Nazi crimes listed in the Nuremberg trial, she didn’t know before, and it was really far away from him, knowing that in the end, she said she saw It was the experience of her peers being persecuted to death by the Nazis that they deeply realized that these were so close to her. From her perspective, Hitler was not hysterical all day long, and he was kind and kind to the people around him, which is very consistent with the image of the dictator described by the people around the dictator. But the last narrative proves that she has seen through this experience of her own, and that the human side cannot conceal the nature of the devil. It is a pity that many people around the dictator do not have this awareness.

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  • Tre 2021-10-20 19:01:42

    Even if it is told from the perspective of a biographical film, the film is too long and dull.. The editing effort is not enough, but the actors’ acting skills are very good. Hitler’s Austrian husky accent is well restored, and the hysterical voice is even My old German sounds a little strenuous. The war scenes can’t be considered spectacular, it can only be said that some scenes have been restored realistically.. Crazy and run-down are scattered in an orderly manner. Four stars are given to those small details.

  • Demarcus 2021-10-20 19:01:42

    The material, take the root to help stabb him to death! Nima scum and Stalin is so great, so great, I am coming to Hebei Province!!

Downfall quotes

  • Adolf Hitler: General von Greim, I appoint you to Commander in Chief of the Air Force and General Field Marshal. A large responsibility rests on your shoulders. You must shake up the entire air force. Many mistakes have been made, so be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so called humanity... is just priests' drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.

    Joseph Goebbels: The strongest can only be victorious by eradicating the weak.

    Adolf Hitler: I have always obeyed this law of nature by never permitting myself to feel compassion. I have ruthlessly suppressed domestic opposition and brutally crushed the resistance of alien races. It's the only way to deal with it.

    [Linge enters with a folder in hand]

    Adolf Hitler: Apes, for example, trample every outsider to death. What goes for apes goes even more for human beings.

    [Hitler reads the folder]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler, in Lübeck, has made an offer to surrender to the western powers through Count Bernadotte... according to a report by English radio.

    [finishes reading]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler... Of all people, Himmler! The truest of the true... This is the worst betrayal of all! Göring, yeah; he was always corrupt, of course. Speer, yeah: an idealistic, unpredictable artist. All the others, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

    [puts folder down]

    Adolf Hitler: But not Himmler. Has he gone crazy?

    [stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: He claimed authority by saying I was sick, perhaps already dead!

    [pause]

    Adolf Hitler: Please leave me alone with Lord von Greim and Frau Reitsch.

    [Everyone except the following stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: Oh, and bring me Fegelein.

    Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener: My Führer, we don't know where he is.

    Adolf Hitler: But he's Himmler's adjutant. He must be here.

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: We haven't seen him for days.

    Adolf Hitler: I want his report at once!

    [Everyone leaves, and Goebbels is about to step out]

    Adolf Hitler: Please stay, Doctor.

  • Martin Bormann: [reading folder in hand] My Führer, following your decision to stay in Berlin, do I have your approval as Vice Chancellor to immediately take charge of the entire Reich with the necessary power and authority? If I receive no answer by 10 p.m., I will assume that you have been incapacitated. I will serve the well-being of our people and fatherland.

    [closes folder and puts it down]

    Martin Bormann: He's betraying Germany... and you!

    Walter Hewel: Göring's concern isn't unjustified. If our communication system breaks down, which could happen at any time, we'd be cut off from the world; we could no longer pass on orders.

    Joseph Goebbels: I see it differently. Göring wants to seize power. I never trusted that mob he gathered at Obersalzberg; it stinks of a coup.

    Adolf Hitler: That failure. That sponger... A parvenu! A lazybones!

    [Albert Speer returns while Hitler rants offscreen]

    Adolf Hitler: How dare he declare me unable to act? Tomorrow he might declare me dead!

    Albert Speer: Hello, Frau Junge.

    Traudl Junge: Herr Speer. How did you get into Berlin?

    Albert Speer: It wasn't easy, but I must speak with the Führer.

    Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener: I'd wait here if I were you.

    Adolf Hitler: The Luftwaffe... What did he do with it? That was reason enough to execute him! That morphine addict... helped to corrupt this country! And now this...

    [Hewel looks down in disappointment]

    Adolf Hitler: He betrayed me of all people! Me of all people!

    [pause]

    Adolf Hitler: I want Göring to be deprived of power and removed from office. If I don't survive the war, that man is to be executed at once.