"DOWNFALL" II

the memoir's of traudl junge can be found in, "voices from the bunker". an excerpt from a review sorta' sums up my feelings about the movie;

" Junge was in her early twenties when the events she recounts in *Voices from the Bunker* took place and one wonders just how accurate her extraordinarily detailed memory can possibly be after all this time...and how much the authors credited with actually writing this book added to round out her account. One also can't help but speculate on how much revisionism Junge is engaging in, conscious or unconscious, to justify her past, although, for the most part, one gets the feeling that her account is pretty even-handed and no apologia for Hitler, Nazism, or herself. Her story of her escape from the bunker through the ruins of Soviet-occupied Berlin is riveting, the kind of episode that makes you forget to swallow for pages at a time until you realize your mouth is dry. Her avowal that she, like most Germans, had no idea that the Jews were being exterminated since most of the camps were located outside of an increasingly isolated Germany is partly credible and partly incredible. Could it possibly be true? After two years at the very hub of Nazi power, in the presence of Uncle Adolf himself...could she really have heard not even a rumor of the millions being exterminated?"


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i am fascinated by this movie as it depicts in a larger sense my beliefs in the craziness, ignorance, stupidity, and fantasy life of humans from jihadists to nazis to communists to religious fanatics of all persuasions.

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