Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film 'Der Untergang' Page #3

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Somewhere. Maybe.

Most people from my group

must be dead.

I should never

have left that bunker.

I should have shot myself,

but I couldn't.

Eat something first.

There's always enough time to die.

You stay with the women.

Come along.

The Russians have surrounded us.

-What's going to happen to us?

Maybe you can get through.

You could try.

I'm not taking another step.

Think about it. The Russians

are after us.

As a woman, you might have a chance.

Try it.

Good luck.

When you walk past the Russians,

don't look them in the eyes.

Remember that well. All the best.

The Russians.

Gerda, let's go.

-You go.

I'm exhausted.

-Please.

I have to give it a try.

Don't be angry with me.

I'll be alright.

Herr Doktor.

My comrades want to surrender.

Can I join you?

The Fhrer's dead. Do you want

to continue the war on your own?

I'm obliged by my oath.

Then you'd better go

to the Brigadefhrer.

The Russians are evacuating the square.

-So?

No opposition.

No shooting.

Then they'll be

here within the hour.

What shall we do?

We can't surrender.

-What exactly do you mean?

When the Russians come,

we'll empty our weapons on them.

The last bullets are for ourselves.

-That's radical.

Is this prestigious murder and suicide

our only option?

We're SS officers.

We can't survive the Fhrer.

Who agrees with me?

Come and sit down with me?

-Please.

Why do you want to continue living?

-And you? Why do you want to die?

See this?

The Fhrer gave it

to me personally.

As a last decoration?

-Maybe.

A goodbye present from Hitler.

I had to promise him something.

If the Russians get me,

I have to kill myself.

Did he make you promise that?

But why?

Maybe he didn't want

me to be forced...

...to say anything bad

about him.

But, as a diplomat,

you're under international protection.

Who will benefit

if you stick to your deal?

There they are.

Don't shoot, comrades.

We surrendered.

The war is over.

It's over.

Complete surrender took place

on 7 May 1945.

Hostilities were suspended

on 8 May.

The war took the lives of more

than 50 million people.

in German concentration camps.

Gerda Christian managed to escape

and avoid imprisonment.

She died in Dsseldorf

on 14 April 1997.

Dr. Schenck was released in 1953

by the Soviets.

He died in Aachen

on 21 December 1998.

Wilhelm Mohnke was released

by the Soviets in 1955.

He died in Damp, near Eckernfrde,

on 6 August 2001.

Helmut Weidling died in

captivity, in 1955.

Werner Haase was arrested

in the bunker, by the Red Army.

He died in captivity,

in 1945.

Otto Gnsche was arrested

by the Soviets.

He was released in 1956 and

died in Lohmar, in 2003.

Hanna Reitsch survived the war

and would break many flying records.

She died on 28 August 1979.

Robert Ritter von Greim committed

suicide on 24 May 1945.

Linge and Hentschel were

arrested by the Soviets.

Linge was released in 1955 and

died in 1980.

Hentschel was released in 1949 and

died in 1982.

Constanze Manziarly disappeared

without a trace, during her flight.

Albert Speer was arrested

in Flensburg, in 1945.

He was sentenced to

He was released in 1966 and

died in London, in 1981.

Keitel and Jodl were sentenced to

death in Nuremberg and executed.

Hermann Gring was

sentenced to death.

He committed suicide in his cell,

shortly before his execution.

Heinrich Himmler tried to escape

using a false name.

After he was found out,

he committed suicide.

Martin Bormann and Ludwig

Stumpfegger committed suicide...

...on 2 May 1945,

near the Lehrter Bahnhof.

Rochus Misch was released

by the Soviets in 1955.

He still lives in Berlin.

Traudl Junge was classified

as a 'young follower'.

She worked as a secretary and lived

in Munich, until her death in 2002.

All the horror I heard about during

the Nuremberg trial...

...the 6 million Jews, dissidents

or people of another race...

...who died, shocked me deeply.

But I hadn't made the connection

with my own past yet.

I reassured myself by thinking

I wasn't personally guilty of it.

And that I hadn't known

about the sheer size of it.

But one day, I walked

past a commemorative plaque...

...for Sophie Scholl,

here in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse.

I saw that she was my age...

...and that she was executed in

the year I joined Hitler.

And only then did I realise...

that youth is no excuse.

And that it might have been

possible to find out the truth.

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