HITLER died 60 years ago today

The Sun UK ^ | 4/29/05 | MARTIN PHILLIPS

[XR7]

IT was 60 years ago today that Adolf Hitler slunk for the last time into the private quarters of his Berlin bunker.

With Soviet artillery shells shaking the earth above him and the last remnants of his empire crumbling, Hitler took with him a pistol for himself and a poison capsule for his mistress Eva Braun.

The world was about to be rid for good of one of the most evil tyrants it has ever known.

[Paleo Conservative]

You mean he's really not 116 years old living in Argentina?

[Luigi Vasellini]

As Michael Savage would say "Hitler is alive and well and he's wearing a headscarve"!!!

[hoagy62]

As I remember from the old "Unknown Soldier" comic book, the line he uttered upon Hitler's death:

"Burn, Satan...to the last tick of Eternity!"

[Army Air Corps]

Too bad we didn't have an opportunity to make his death slow and particularly gruesome.

[No Truce With Kings]

This just in:


Hitler is *still* dead.

[Bahbah]

The liberals must be mourning a loss of one of their own.

Actually, I think they are more in the Stalinist mold. He got away with it.

[xJones]

He had to shoot himself or risk being captured by Stalin's Red Army troops who were very close to the bunker entrance at the time. Stalin was a better mass murderer than Hitler if you judge by sheer numbers, and it's a toss up as to who was more sadistic. Suicide was a better option for Hitler than risking being captured alive by his fellow monster.We can truly hope, though, that neither monster is resting in peace.

[feedback doctor]

Herr Hitler began his rise thru the German Worker's Party. WHAAAAATTTTTT, socialism. It is alive and well!

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Dead? Not really? Mein Kampf is selling well in the middle east.

[popdonnelly]

He died about six or seven years too late.

[dfwgator]

Suicide was a better option for Hitler than risking being captured alive by his fellow monster.

Hitler and Stalin are probably best pals in Hell.

[Taft in '52]

Good morning, Schicklgruber,
Why did you break so soon?
You swore that you would rule the world
And maybe the stars and moon.
What happened to that super race you had in '39?
Mein Kampf has backfired in your face
And trickled down your spine.
--Mother Goose

[Barnacle]

HITLER died 60 years ago today

If only it was 80 years ago today.

[woofie]

Downfall (the movie) is excellent


Hitler's final days disturb

The depth of the Fuehrer's evil is horrifying.
LOUIS B. HOBSON, Special to The Free Press 2005-04-29 01:44:22







Historians love to chill us with the image of Emperor Nero fiddling as his beloved Rome burned around him. What Adolf Hitler did for 12 days as Berlin was reduced to near rubble by the invading Russian army is even more horrifying and disturbing.

Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Downfall is a portrait of rampaging evil as Hitler (Bruno Ganz) rules his underground bunker as he once did the Nazi empire.

Sadly for the citizens of Berlin, Hitler still had power over their lives and he forbade any form of evacuation.

He also appointed the Hitler Youth to be the last line of defence, thus putting children in the line of fire of Russian tanks.

The cameras follow one such boy, then descend into the bunker to show Hitler grilling and admonishing members of his inner circle for orchestrating the decline of The Third Reich. The monster himself was not about to accept any blame.

Ganz is riveting as Hitler. He portrays the dictator as stooped and broken, but always defiant.

His palsied hand shakes behind his back, but is rigid whenever he points it at someone.

Many of the scenes in the bunker unfold like theatre, with all the drama in the dialogue, rather than some forced movement, and it's all the more effective for its reserve.

Though Ganz dominates the film, as he must, the supporting performances are all memorable, especially Juliane Kohler as Hitler's deluded mistress, Eva Braun, and Heino Ferch as Albert Speer, the architect of the new Germany, who remained loyal in spirit, if not in practice.

Watching Braun try to throw a party as bombs rain on Berlin is surreal, whereas Speer's attempt to make Hitler release the people in his bunker and those cowering in burning buildings in Berlin is genuinely touching.

The greatest horror in The Downfall is watching Magda Goebbels (Corinna Harfouch) poison her children because she does not want them to live in a world without Hitler.

It is through her performance that we get a glimpse of the charisma Hitler possessed to so enchant a nation that they would either willingly commit inconceivable crimes against humanity or turn a blind eye to those who did.

The Downfall is much more than a history lesson. It is a stark and chilling reminder that evil of Hitler's magnitude continues to live and thrive in other megalomaniacs, even today

[theDentist]

Some years ago I heard a radio interview of an author who wrote of comedians and stage actors during the 2nd world war.

One man, in Paris I believe, was known for his biting humor. He was on stage making jokes about the Nazis and afterwards was given a little talking-to by some Gestapo(?) agents. They told him that the next time he took the stage he would treat Hitler and the German people with repect, or else.

The next night he walked on stage. He stood still until all was quiet and all eyes upon him. He then gave the German salute, and said, "That little sh** stands this tall."

Never heard from again.

Now that... was a real Frenchman.

[CondorFlight]

I agree. GREAT film!

[Tailgunner Joe]

IMO, while Nazism may be more evil in terms of quality, certainly Communism has it beat in quantity, and as Stalin said, quantity has a quality all its own.