German reflection

Bernadette 2022-01-25 08:03:17

It was first known that Hitler’s last years plot was a book written by her female secretary. It seems to be called "I'm a Secretary to the Führer". The cover and the end of the movie are black, with detailed pictures and text, this movie and that one. The content of the book is almost the same, and the shock it gave me at the time has not disappeared, especially the bunker, which is eerie and terrifying, where many people died, those who were executed by him and those who died for him. The Germans restored that period of history with a serious attitude. There are many films made by Germany on the theme of World War II. One of them is clearly called "One Night of the General", which is an objective show of the Allied forces when they are about to take Berlin.
The breath of death hung over Berlin, and the cruelty of the war and the innocent civilians were nothing but the high-sounding pawns in the hands of the politicians in the war. It is commendable for the Germans to reflect on World War II, especially the scene of German Chancellor Kohl kneeling at the memorial to the dead Jews to make atonement. In Japan, I wonder if you can see the Japanese prime minister kneeling for the dead Chinese? There are many Japanese movies about World War II, but I haven't watched them.
In my opinion, Hitler was an extreme nationalist, a fanatical, unconscious lunatic who wanted to revive the Germanic nation. What impressed me the most was that he would give his subordinates a piece of cyanamide as an honor, a bit like the words said by a young girl, I swore in front of the head of state, it sounds so naive and ridiculous. And she is only a teenager, and the cross is like a cross to me, representing death. He is the incarnation of the devil himself, think about how many Jews he killed and his subordinates who were unfaithful to him. So much so that people who later wrote legends for him said he was paranoid.
War is a bloodthirsty machine, and people lose their minds. And those people paid the price for what they did.
At the end when the Soviet Red Army surrounded them, the running deputy and the internal medicine department pointed to the ammonia cyanide and said, "The Führer gave you this?" The deputy was completely brainwashed, and he was anxious to commit suicide. And such Nazist extremists also exist in Germany today. Germany is the most exclusive country in the world. A foreigner needs to work in Germany for 15 years to get a green card and live for a long time. This may also have the influence of the Second World War, it is the purity of blood.

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Extended Reading
  • Scot 2022-03-16 09:01:02

    I am eight years old now, and I have been in more than 70 battles. Those who were attacked were defeated, and those who attacked were defeated. I was not defeated, so I dominated the world. However, today's death is trapped here, the death of me this day is not a crime of war. -----Xiang Yu Benji

  • Nestor 2022-03-23 09:01:19

    Exquisite, close, calm, fluent, rhythm controlled, from a technical point of view, the level of typical German manufacturing is too good.

Downfall quotes

  • Adolf Hitler: You see, gentlemen? I'll be proved right. Wenck will come.

    [leaves generals]

    Adolf Hitler: Wenck will come.

    [passes by guards who salute to him]

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: I want to immediately know if it's possible for Wenck to attack or not.

    General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: It's unlikely that Wenck's small force can attack the Red Army...

    Joseph Goebbels: [interrupts Krebs] How dare you say it's unlikely?

    General der Infanterie Hans Krebs: Wenck has nothing to confront the Red Army!

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Why don't you tell the Führer? Have you all gone crazy?

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: The Führer knows it himself, but he will never surrender, and we won't either! I went through that before, and once is enough!

    General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: Come on, I have to get out of here.

    [leaves with Mohnke]

  • Adolf Hitler: General von Greim, I appoint you to Commander in Chief of the Air Force and General Field Marshal. A large responsibility rests on your shoulders. You must shake up the entire air force. Many mistakes have been made, so be ruthless. Life never forgives weakness. This so called humanity... is just priests' drivel. Compassion is a primal sin. Compassion for the weak is a betrayal of nature.

    Joseph Goebbels: The strongest can only be victorious by eradicating the weak.

    Adolf Hitler: I have always obeyed this law of nature by never permitting myself to feel compassion. I have ruthlessly suppressed domestic opposition and brutally crushed the resistance of alien races. It's the only way to deal with it.

    [Linge enters with a folder in hand]

    Adolf Hitler: Apes, for example, trample every outsider to death. What goes for apes goes even more for human beings.

    [Hitler reads the folder]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler, in Lübeck, has made an offer to surrender to the western powers through Count Bernadotte... according to a report by English radio.

    [finishes reading]

    Adolf Hitler: Himmler... Of all people, Himmler! The truest of the true... This is the worst betrayal of all! Göring, yeah; he was always corrupt, of course. Speer, yeah: an idealistic, unpredictable artist. All the others, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

    [puts folder down]

    Adolf Hitler: But not Himmler. Has he gone crazy?

    [stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: He claimed authority by saying I was sick, perhaps already dead!

    [pause]

    Adolf Hitler: Please leave me alone with Lord von Greim and Frau Reitsch.

    [Everyone except the following stands up]

    Adolf Hitler: Oh, and bring me Fegelein.

    Heinz Linge, Kammerdiener: My Führer, we don't know where he is.

    Adolf Hitler: But he's Himmler's adjutant. He must be here.

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: We haven't seen him for days.

    Adolf Hitler: I want his report at once!

    [Everyone leaves, and Goebbels is about to step out]

    Adolf Hitler: Please stay, Doctor.