Not Just a "Movie"

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2006)

As a professional soldier (retired), I've studied many, many books, papers, studies, analyses...describing the beginning, middle, and end of the third Reich. As a descendant of German farmers, miners, soldiers, sailors, engineers, artists, etc., I've always been intensely insulted by the nazi's perversion and destruction of (what was once) one of the planet's 3 great cultures. This movie ("Downfall" in USA) is the first I've seen that addresses the fundamental fact that all the perpetrators were, initially, human. It is a warning that any of us can be convinced of the purity of our prejudices. Do you know that Traudel was about 11 years old when Hitler was elected (!)? When did your personal perspective begin? Carter? Johnson? Regan? Clinton? Who are those people? Why don't you know? Why do you know what you think you know? Watch the film, boring facts or not. But don't stop there...