A realistic film, keeps the Nazi's riddle unresolved

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2010)

I started watching this film with a prejudice: That's because of my disfavor about any attempt to show the Nazis as victims or even as miserables in retro-perspective. As a Jew, this opinion is accompanied by extremely strong emotions.
However, after watching the movie, I waive any criticism of that kind: There was nothing pathetic about these characters in the bunker. Their behavior while experiencing an extremely fast destruction was so realistic on one hand and yet as monstrous as you would expect i.e. we are not imposed by the director to change our narrative neither our feeling toward the Nazis (and in this context this is quite O.K.)
People committed mutual suicide, a mother killed her all sons, old citizens of their own nation are killed as traitors for nothing, and so on... The common initiation to all these horrible actions is one: persons took these inhuman act due to their cognitive dissonance.
But how did they reach such a level of cognitive dissonance ? This is the unresolved German riddle: what caused tens of Millions of people to choose a totally inhuman attitude. No one in this situation has shown any regret neither sorrow about ruining tens of Millions of lives. Just a purely egocentric dilemma about reality vs. the Germans' aspiration that time. They were inhuman in their lives and inhuman in their deaths. Such a phenomenon is unique in history and no nation has ever acted that way before neither after Nazis.