It's like you were there at the end

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2006)

This is the most amazing movie about the final days of Hitler told from the perspective of his personal secretary. The madness of his regime comes through loud and clear. This is a "must see" for anyone who thinks one understands totalitarian or fanatical regimes or "the madness of crowds." Denial is a potent but essential drug of fanatics. One is impressed with Hitler's conviction and tenacity of his beliefs in his maniacal fantasies, delusional at the end. However, the madness continues. Compassion for the German people, who chose their leaders, is misplaced. They deserve what they get. Traitors are executed even though the war is nearly ended. Troops and officers get drunk, party with cocaine and alcohol, only to be arrested and shot just before the Russians overrun Berlin. Yet no one wants to live in a world without National Socialism. Clinging to the ideology to the end.