I wasn't even physically alive yet in 1945, Ebbie.

What I meant was that while watching the movie I felt a sense of relief when Hitler and Goebbels finally died, mainly because it set free the many people (including some quite young people) who were under their command to get back in touch with reality, get the hell out of that bunker, and perhaps save their own lives.

I was particularly relieved to see Traudl Yunge get out of there. She was a pretty sympathetic character who found herself in a horrible situation (happening to have been born in the wrong country at the wrong time and hired as a stenographer by the wrong national leader).

The person I recall having the most satisfaction in seeing him meet his grisly end (in a movie) was Robespierre when he was taken to the guillotine in "La Revolucianne Franciase" (a 6 hour movie from 1989) That guy simply HAD to go...as did Hitler...but even in the case of Robespierre, though I was very glad to see him executed, I could also see the tragic side of it. He too absolutely believed he was doing the right thing when he caused a similar death to be dealt out to thousands of innocent people. He thought he was saving the nation by executing those people. He was dead wrong. Eventually his own paranoia caught up with him, same as happened to Hitler and Goebbels.