Downfall (2004 film)

Downfall German Der Untergang is a 2004 German war film depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitlers reign over Nazi Germany in 1945. It is based upon the books Inside Hitlers Bunker The Last Days of the Third Reich 1945, by historian Joachim Fest Until the Final Hour Hitlers Last Secretary 1947, the memoirs of Traudl Junge, one of Hitlers secretaries cowritten with Melissa Mller Inside the Third Reich first published in German in 1969, the memoirs of Albert Speer, one of the highestranking Nazi officials to survive both the war and the Nuremberg trials Hitlers Last Days An EyeWitness Account first English translation 1973, by Gerhard Boldt Das Notlazarett unter der Reichskanzlei Ein Arzt erlebt Hitlers Ende in Berlin by Doctor ErnstGnther Schenck and Soldat Reflections of a German Soldier, 19361949 1992, Siegfried Knappes memoir. The film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The story resumes onApril 1945, the Fhrers birthday, during the Battle of Berlin. A loud artillery blast wakes up Traudl, Gerda Christian and Constanze Manziarly in the room they share. Down in the Fhrerbunker, Hitler is informed by Wilhelm Burgdorf that Berlin is under attack and then by Karl Koller that the Red Army has advanced to withinkilometres 7.5mi of central Berlin.At Hitlers birthday reception, ReichsfhrerSS Heinrich Himmler and his SS adjutant Hermann Fegelein plead der Fhrer to leave the city. Instead, Hitler declares, I will defeat them in Berlin, or face my downfall. Himmler leaves to negotiate surrender terms with the Western Allies, behind Hitlers back. In another part of the city, a group of Hitler Youth members are bolstering defenses. Peter, one of the members, is urged by his father to desert but refuses. ........

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