Probably the best movie on Hitler I have seen.....

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2006)

I am a longtime scholar on National Socialism, the Second World War, and the German Military in the Second World War. My brother suggested that I see the movie. I think it was probably the best treatment on the last ten days of HItlers life in the bunker because it showed that Hitler despite all of his abhorrent qualities was a human being that felt pain, such as when he killed his dog and felt anger and hate, from which he assigned his rage upon the Jews and the world. Too often we assign labels to people and we detach ourselves from the reality of the situation. The fact is that Adolf Hitler did not come out of his mothers womb spouting anti-Semitic invectives. Rather he learned it and unfortunately ruthlessly destroyed European Jewry as we know it. Probably the most revealing part of the entire movie for me was when he killed Blondi his dog. Here a man who had started a war that killed millions of innocent people looked away when his most trusted friend in the world died. To me it was the ultimate irony, he loved his dog yet he could not care for the welfare of another human being. I don't think that any of us will ever forget the Second World War, it impacts us to this day. This movie went a long way in showing the human side and the effects that were wrought upon humanity