Re : Der Untergang

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2007)

This was an excellent film, one of the best I have seen. I saw it in Berlin a couple of times ( in German ) when it first came out, and now have the DVD. Have also read the book. Just one comment I have to make which no-one else seems to have picked up on so far. In the scene where Hitler is presenting the Iron Crosses to members of the Hitler Youth in the Reichs Chancellery garden, he is introduced by a man in the brown uniform of the Hitler Youth, Artur Axmann, Reichsjugendfuehrer. Axmann salutes and gives the Nazi Gruess with his RIGHT arm. However, according to my information Artur Axmann was wounded on the first day of the attack on the Soviet Union, 22nd July 1941, when he lost an arm. And as far as I can make out from photographs of Axmann I have seen, the arm he lost was the RIGHT one. So he should have saluted with his LEFT hand.
I am not 100% certain of this, but I wonder whether there is any further information on this point.What do the film makers have to say about it ?
Also, I am anxious to obtain the song " Blutrote Rosen " by the Marek Weber Orchestra, which is played in the film when Eva Braun is dancing in the Reichs Chancellery. I know that the recording is available on the CD of the film, but I don't want to purchase the entire film soundtrack. Can anyone tell me where I can obtain the record ( preferably on CD ) of this song without having to buy the film soundtrack ?
Terry Moody.