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Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich
Downfall:  Hitler and the  End of the  Third Reich
Nominated for the Oscar(r)for Best Foreign Film, Downfall takes you into Hitler’s bunker during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler’s infamous secretary Traudl Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany’s defeat is inevitable.
As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Fuhrer and his closest advisors.
Customer Review:Â This film is essential for anyone who wishes to understand “the evil that men do” (and women, for example, Frau Goebbels, who killed her children because she did not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism, Nazism).
It is a deep film, based on the historical novel of Joachim Fest, and the stunning documentary “Blind Spot” (Bis Zum Toten Winkel) revealing the thoughts of Hitler’s personal secretary, Traudl Humps (married to an SS officer on Hitler’s staff who was killed in 1943, she became Traudl Jung), shortly before her death as the millenium turned.