Downfall

Right.

Remember at the end of the movie Downfall, as the German Republic is collapsing around Hitler, Hitler orders his own air force to bomb his own country.

They refuse the order.

But he's like, if I can't have it, nobody can have it.

With Oldman, you never think anything other than that's Winston Churchill, to me anyway, as I'm watching it.

And with Downfall, it's the same thing.

You can't see an actor there.

You see Adolf Hitler.

So this is an exact, if you look through the people on this story, you will see an exact replica of the bunker scene from the Adolf Hitler movie.

From Downfall.

From Downfall,

thank you.

The Adolf Hitler movie.

Actually, no, he directed another movie before this, but this would be his first major studio film as a director.

They originally looked at the German director Oliver Hirschbegel to direct, but he decided to do the Adolf Hitler biopic Downfall instead.

All right.

Yeah, and this time...

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, well, I say downfall.

Yeah, you had ended at Ryan and I added in the, because of Todd, because Todd told me about the, what is it? Downfall.

Downfall.

The base or something, right? I haven't seen

Downfall.

Yeah, it's a, there's another one I got to

buy.

Okay, as always, I will include a bibliography in my show notes, but my favorite resources for this episode were either Traudl's memoir, titled Until the Final Hour, or a documentary film about her called Blindspot.

If you want, there's a dramatic film that tells her story called Downfall that's pretty good.

The star of that movie is definitely this actor named Ulrich Mattes, who plays Josef Goebbels.

Holy smokes, is he scary in it.

And it's kind of like the way I would describe your book.

It's like watching the the movie Downfall.

I mean, many people know Downfall from the endless memes that are created about it with, you know, Hitler having a meltdown in his bunker.

But it's kind of like watching the last days of the Third Reich and viewing it through the prism of Bonhoeffer's life, arrest, and ultimately his death.

I mean, that's what I really liked about it.

Yeah.

Have you ever watched that German film, Downfall, about the last few weeks of Hitler? I think I did.

Was that like from the 80s? Yeah, maybe the 90s.

This German actor called Bruno Gantz plays Hitler.