Don't give up thinking because you are young

Maybell 2022-04-21 09:01:21

At the end of the film, Ms. Jung's speech is thought-provoking. You are also young, but not everyone will make the same choice. Don't choose to be naive and ignorant because you are young and give up reflection.

The secretary, Jung, sympathized with Hitler, who was betrayed by everyone. Even when Hitler himself persuaded her to run away, he still stubbornly stayed by his side, even though he did not work for Hitler for a long time. But she didn't know then that Hitler didn't need her sympathy. She thought that the Goebbels had taken over the children, and the bunker would be safe, but she didn't know that they were here to commit suicide.

In the end, Berlin did not save the decadent smell of former men and women getting together to drink and smoke, intertwined with the pictures of some people who finally shot without turning back and ended up with themselves. Mrs. Goebbels believed that a world without Nazism could not be lived. I don't know if she really thinks so, or if she thinks that their family's life will be worse than death after the defeat.

Ugh

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Downfall quotes

  • Adolf Hitler: [Screaming after Steiner didn't attack after giving an order] Traitors! I've been betrayed and deceived from the very beginning! What a monstrous betrayal of the German people, but all those traitors will pay. They'll pay with their own blood. They shall drown in their own blood!

  • Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: The Führer has lost all sense of reality.

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: He moves divisions that only exist on his map. Steiner's scattered unit can hardly defend itself and yet, Steiner is ordered to attack! It's pure madness!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Then why don't you tell him yourself?

    Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: He won't listen to reason. You should know that.

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Something must be done.

    Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Are you insane? We'll be thrown out like Rundstedt and Guderian!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Yes, and?

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: [glares at Fegelein] We are soldiers! We pledged our allegiance to the Führer!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: So that means we are no longer allowed to think?

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: All this coming from you? An opportunist? A ruthless careerist?

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Pardon?

    [Burgdorf takes a swig of alcohol]