At the end of "Hitler : the last ten days," Hitler is ranting at Eva Braun Hitler, berating her viciously. When he stops to take a breath and glances over at her, she has already taken her cyanide capsule. If her last minutes were really like that, death must have been a relief.
Just now, the voiceover in the documentary we are watching tells us, "Estimates are that there were 100,000 suicides in the spring of 1945. ... In the end, all that people actually worried about was, How do I kill myself?"
"Downfall" depicts many suicides. What's behind the steady stream of Nazi officers killing themselves? Throwing themselves on the funeral pyre of National Socialism? Following the example set by their colleagues? Remorse and guilt for what they had done? Or fear at facing the wrath of the Soviets?
The scene where Magda Goebbels murders her children in their beds is pure wickedness. The children had been given a sleeping potion at bedtime. Then as they lie sleeping, their mama comes in to tell them goodbye. She puts a cyanide capsule in each mouth, places one hand on the top of the child's head and forces the jaws together with the other hand and, lastly, pulls the blanket free to cover the dead child's face. Capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule. Once she started, there was no stopping her. A perfect Nazi.
Just now, the voiceover in the documentary we are watching tells us, "Estimates are that there were 100,000 suicides in the spring of 1945. ... In the end, all that people actually worried about was, How do I kill myself?"
"Downfall" depicts many suicides. What's behind the steady stream of Nazi officers killing themselves? Throwing themselves on the funeral pyre of National Socialism? Following the example set by their colleagues? Remorse and guilt for what they had done? Or fear at facing the wrath of the Soviets?
The scene where Magda Goebbels murders her children in their beds is pure wickedness. The children had been given a sleeping potion at bedtime. Then as they lie sleeping, their mama comes in to tell them goodbye. She puts a cyanide capsule in each mouth, places one hand on the top of the child's head and forces the jaws together with the other hand and, lastly, pulls the blanket free to cover the dead child's face. Capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule after capsule. Once she started, there was no stopping her. A perfect Nazi.