Traudl Junge

Gandhi to Hitler (2011)

Actors: Anil (actor), Arpit (actor), Pandit Ashok (actor), Sarnav Berry (actor), Rajat Bhalla (actor), Vivek Bharadwaj (actor), Sumit Bhardwaj (actor), Sanjay Bhatia (actor), Devdas (actor), Avijit Dutt (actor), Sunil Dutt (actor), Deepak Gulati (actor), Nitin Gupta (actor), Hemant (actor), Nassar Abdulla (actor),

Plot: Chancellor Adolf Hitler assists Azad Hind Fauj, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, which include a group of Indians who are frustrated with the Gandhian manner of non-violence to compel the oppressive British to quit their country. Punjab-based Balbir Singh is one such member of the Fauj, who has left his wife, Amrita, and son, Veer, behind. Ironically, Amrita is a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and patiently awaits her husband's return home. Mohandas writes to Adolf, addressing him as 'dear friend', imploring him to end the violence. The allies, which include America, Russia, Britain and France close in on the Germans, while Adolf, a little perturbed by defectors, but still in company of many loyal supporters, is determined to continue, and even makes preparations to wed his mistress of 12 years, Eva Braun. Meanwhile Balbir and the rest of the Fauj must risk their lives through treacherous territory, allied soldiers, and quite surprisingly - they themselves - when they end up bickering and fighting with each other.

Genres: Drama, History, War,

Uncle Adolf (2005)

Actors: Stephen Bent (actor), Julian Curry (actor), Ron Donachie (actor), Mykolas Dorofejus (actor), Michael Eaves (actor), Grant Ibbs (actor), Vidas Petkevicius (actor), Robert Pugh (actor), Ken Stott (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Peter Wight (actor), Jake Wood (actor), Diana Aneviciute (actress), Emma Buckley (actress), Geoffrey Beevers (actor),

Plot: A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal ('Elaine Cassidy' (qv)), which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun ('Christine Tremarco' (qv)) became his wife.

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Chilling Story Of Hitler's Darkest Passion

Der Untergang (2004)

Actors: Andrey Blagoslovenski (actor), Dirk Borchardt (actor), Gregory Borlein (actor), Michael Brandner (actor), I. Bubenchikov (actor), Fabian Busch (actor), Martin Butzke (actor), Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov (actor), Sergey Evseev (actor), Heino Ferch (actor), Thomas Franke (actor), Bruno Ganz (actor), Mathias Gnädinger (actor), Bohdan Graczyk (actor), Christian Berkel (actor),

Plot: In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Keywords: 1940s, 1945, accordion, acropolis, adjutant, air-raid, airplane, allegiance, allied-forces, anti-semitism
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: April 1945, a nation awaits its...

Quotes:

Adolf Hitler: In a war as such there are no civilians.

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler: When I meet Eisenhower, should I give the Nazi salute, or shake his hand?

Adolf Hitler: The war is lost... But if you think that I'll leave Berlin for that, you are sadly mistaken. I'd prefer to put a bullet in my head.

[first lines]::Traudl Junge: I've got the feeling that I should be angry with this child, this young and oblivious girl. Or that I'm not allowed to forgive her for not seeing the nature of that monster. That she didn't realise what she was doing. And mostly because I've gone so obliviously. Because I wasn't a fanatic Nazi. I could have said in Berlin, "No, I'm not doing that. I don't want to go the Führer's headquarters." But I didn't do that. I was too curious. I didn't realise that fate would lead me somewhere I didn't want to be. But still, I find it hard to forgive myself.

[last lines]::Traudl Junge: All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didn't know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isn't an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things.

Walter Hewel: Why do you want to live on?::Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: And you? Why do you absolutely want to die?::Walter Hewel: You see this? [shows him a cyanide cap] The Führer personally gave it to me!::Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck: [bitter] As last honor?::Walter Hewel: ...maybe.

Magda Goebbels: Sleep tight, children.

Albert Speer: You must be on stage when the curtain falls

Adolf Hitler: I always make mistakes when I'm dictating.

Joseph Goebbels: I feel no sympathy. I repeat, I feel no sympathy! The German people chose their fate. That may surprise some people. Don't fool yourself. We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!