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Thread #131551   Message #2968933
Posted By: Little Hawk
19-Aug-10 - 06:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Why did Hitler and Braun Marry?
Subject: RE: BS: Why did Hitler and Braun Marry?
That's the movie I was referring to. It's called "Der Untergang" in German, "The Downfall" in English. It was made recently in Germany and is regarded as an extremely accurate depiction of the people and events in the last 10 days inside Hitler's bunker in Berlin. The movie has some brilliant acting in it, particularly Bruno Ganz's superb depiction of Hitler. I think that anyone who saw it would gain some further useful insight into the motivations of Hitler and those immediately around him.

Yes, he encouraged Eva Braun to escape while she still could (and some of those people did get out even in the last few days), but she refused to leave his side, so he married her in a completely symbolic ceremony that could only have been done for personal emotional reasons...it had no practical or political bearing on the rapidly ending story of the Third Reich.