Hitler and Speer | Final Meeting | Downfall Scene
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2019
- A vivid reconstruction of the final weeks of Hitler’s regime.
In mid-April 1945, the Soviets launched an offensive against Berlin “with twenty armies, two and a half million soldiers, and more than forty thousand mortars and field guns”-an avenging force of an almost unimaginable size and scale. Hitler retreated into the Reich Chancellery, but not before warning that this “Asian onslaught” had to be stopped; if it were not, he warned, Germany’s “old people, men, and children will be murdered, and women and girls will be forced to serve as barracks whores.” Thus inspired, the Volksturm and Wehrmacht units charged with defending the city put up a stiff fight, even as Hitler continued to imagine that with Franklin Roosevelt’s death the Western Allies would realize that their enemy was Russia and join Hitler’s crusade. The fall of Vienna to the Soviets put an end to that vision, and Hitler-physically and mentally ill-waited out Marshal Zhukov’s arrival while gorging himself on chocolate cake. An inglorious end, that, and German historian Fest (Speer: The Final Verdict, 2002, etc.) surprises with a number of unreported or overlooked details-such as a letter that Albert Speer had written to Hitler only a few weeks before, chiding him “for equating the existence of Germany with his own life span, describing this as an egocentricity unparalleled in history.” For all that, Hitler shot his wife and then himself, leaving it to the handful of remaining stalwarts to burn their corpses.
I was with Speer when he paid his first visit to the Zeppelinfeld at Nürnberg, long after the war. It was an emotional moment for him: this ghost city was the place where the Nürnberg Rallies were held before the great catastrophe. In close order, drilled by military choreographers, the orders of German power from the pimply, white-kneed columns of Hitler Youth to the older ranks of Waffen SS, banners uncurling and trumpets blaring, would march up and down under the exigent eyes of Hitler.
We were climbing one of the seemingly interminable flights of limestone steps when Speer observed an enormous ragweed, an accursed thing the size of a sequoia, sprouting from a crack in the limestone cladding covering the reinforced concrete understructure. Speer hated that particular weed. The Zeppelinfeld was hairy with them, but that was his weed, his emblem of the decay of a utopian idea, and he would not let it survive. After much tugging, during which the former Generalbauinspektor of the Third Reich went nearly purple with effort, the ragweed gave way, and Speer stood there, panting, the earth crumbling from its defeated roots. "The Führer," he said, slowly, to no one in particular, "would have been very mad at me for this poor stone quality."
Most important, he was the man closest to Hitler; absurdly, and precociously so. Hitler's relationship to Speer has been called a love affair but, if there was a homosexual flavour to it, it was sublimated as an epic of narcissism with the young Speer cast as Hitler's unfulfilled other self. "Hitler quite often told me: 'You are fulfilling my dream. I would like to have been an architect. Fate made me the bildhauer Deutschlands, the sculptor of Germany. I would have liked to be Germany's architect. But I can't: you are. Even when I am dead you will go on, and I give you all my authority so that even after I am dead you will continue.' "
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Hitler and Speer final meeting scene
Speer leaving the Bunker scene
Speer exiting Hitler's Bunker
downfall with english subtitles
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It's weird seeing Hitler cry in silence rather than throwing a tantrum about it.
I guess because Speer was important to him and at least much more honest and honourable about his betrayal
Why would he have to throw a tantrum? Those were his last 10 days in the bunker before he would:
A) Get caught by the Soviets (which would be disastrous for him)
B) Die naturally from stress, or suicide - Thus, he wouldn't give a damn about treason or betrayal anymore, not when he had much bigger problems to be concerned about and after the failure of Steiner's offensive. I agree with you, but when you realize the circumstances here, I don't think I would've done anything different...
Speer, ja!
One of the reasons they had to actually remove the scene. It made Hitler seem to "human" and they were already pushing it with the film as is.
Proximate Cause it isn’t removed from the movie as far I know
That last scene, where Speer looks back, you can almost feel a eerie connection. In the sense that Speer was an architect, he loved architecture and was practically put in charge of designing a new Germania. Berlin itself is an architectural masterpiece. Imagine the world you once knew and loved is all about to be reduced to rubble and debris. All you can do is walk away and leave.
No lie
That was a building he designed.
Speer also had very destructive roles within the Nazi political system. He managed to deceive people that he was just an architect and nothing else.
The Nuremberg trials were a façade, so many of the former Jew hunters got good jobs working for the Stasi in East Germany, West German companies that had an important hand in the Holocaust and robbed Jewish businessowners of their copyrights flourished during the Wirtshaftwunder, in Latin Americas Nazi's had important roles in the many fascist Juntas and the US used operation paperclip to get their hands on Nazi's they deemed useful (the US was always more ideologically aligned with Fascism than Communism).
Much more Nazi blood should've flowed after their defeat.
@@robbiedubbelman3024 so USSR is also closer to fascism by doing their own paperclip? Excdpt they got the trash onstead?
at this point Berlin had already been bombed to bits by years of raids by the USAF and RAF
Speer admiring the Berlin architecture for the last time
..which of course he had build, in this case..
Or perhaps he sees the tragedy of how a dream of romanesque Reich whose destiny it had seemed to shine has collapsed into tomb of despair....
If you read his memoirs, you'll know that the destruction of all that Speer designed is a damn waste.
@@Galland_ yes of course
@@odinewing3463the man was a genius. Just at the wrong place in the wrong time
We can all be fair, Downfall is the best ww2 movie ever made.
And dunkirk
Everything about Hitler here was historically inaccurate
@@Theunseenesoteric
No it wasn't you fool.
Schindlers list?
@@AssyMcgeeee Hitler here seems more like a perfectionistic-helper type personality but he was in reality a doubting-thinking type. That obviously does not preclude him from outbursts of emotion, which he would frequently have as a result of his deep pessimism which ironically does not come off as strong here.
It might seem like I am making his case to you but really most movies either portray Hitler as a comic book villain or as basically being OCD, and thats not really the core of his psychology. From my perpective, the best portrayal of Hitlers internal mindset is actually the portrayal from the movie Look Whos Back, which demonstrates perfectly how he was able to convince people of his position by sowing doubt about the existing structure of the world. Not taking a position on anything, just being honest about my thoughts.
Heres a clip - ruclips.net/video/t2aNRYL0nq8/видео.html
RIP Bruno Ganz
YES finally someone who knows this legend's name
TLDR:
Hitler: I will not shed a tear for my people.
Speer: Then, I'll make you shed one.
Yeah!
2:40 It's a great little detail. When Hitler breaks the pencil, it's right in front of his chest, so it's like hearing his heart physically break from Speer's betrayal. Just my humble interpretation.
I thought Hitler is going to cause destruction with the pencil of doom
@@99mrpogi He's gonna raise an army of doodles like in Spongebob.
@@gonzobliter8or992 Hitler used to watch Nick Toons back then?
@@feosavoyan1320Underrated comment
I think that's a great interpretation! 👍
Speer was smart, the moment he figured Germany was doomed, he started collecting brownie points for the forthcoming trial, making him look better than what he actually was.
Himmler tried to do it as well, but the SS was just too infamous, and he made too many mistakes doing it
@@nicholasoneal1521 😀 yup, he was too detached from reality.
This is true, but I think the defiance of Hitlers orders to destroy what is left of German cities and infrastructure if the enemy moves in, has nothing to do with "making him look better".
@@abominusrex3205 far too detatched from reality. Along with Hitler, he's one of the few names in history whose very mention will spark fear and terror.
100% right,
Hitler surrounded himself with yes men for years and years. Imagine being told over and over for decades that you're right. That you're making the right decisions, without those closest to you ever challenging you. Then in these last days as it's all falling apart so rapidly, your closest and dearest friend gives you the brutal and honest truth. Sort of like your orders aren't even worth following. That would feel like a sharp dagger through the heart.
Let me be frank though, I have no sympathy for Hitler. I'm just imagining how horrible that would feel.
For real
@flatmunch 007 true
That's actually not quite true. If you read the memoirs of German generals, they argue with Hitler all the time. Including such thing as Walter Model telling Hitler: "Mein Fuhrer, are you the commander of the Ninth Army or am I?!", and Hitler gave in to his demands. I guess on the political side maybe what you said would be more accurate.
@flatmunch 007 may have been broken but he broke families way worse than he was broken himself
Don’t be ashamed of or deny having sympathy for someone just because they’re an evil person. You do have sympathy for him and that’s good it reflects well on you. It proves your more human than he is.
As Speer walked through the bunker to leave, you'd think they were winning the war based on the immaculate uniforms, cheerful atmosphere, and plentiful food and drink. It's funny how even during Goebbels' last radio broadcast to the German people, he sounds perfectly calm while you can literally hear shelling in the background. It's honestly crazy to think about.
Their attempts to will and dream a victory into reality in this situation really were something else it's all kinds of surreal.
Denial is a very powerful thing. They all knew what was coming next. It was only a matter of time...they were going to be under the control of the Russian Army. Many of them would be executed or imprisoned. There was no point dwelling on that; instead they decided to live in the moment and enjoy their last moments as powerful elites.
Yes I thought the same. Fanatism is the word.
@@jonasfischer9510 Fanaticism*
Speer had a different, much different loyalty for Hitler. Even how Speer got to be in the Nazi was mystical. This betrayal truly hurt Hitler in a soft part of his heart. He cried alone. He had soo much trust and faith in everyone, this scene showed his most vulnerable state. In other portrayals Speer was seen crying, as well...
Dun Kim more so than Himmlers betrayal?
Speer was a true anti-semite, he believed in the cause, did his time after the war and then tried to clean up his image by writing a book. I don’t know why people call him the good nazi
He defied the Nero decree.
Don't trust or believe criminals, who told you he said that to Hitler, did u see it, do u have any irrefutable evidence, hitler was extremely ruthless with anybody who don't apply his orders, if you think he really did that because speer said so on his book, then you're wrong my friend, speer at that time was in jail and he wrote a book to protect himself and show the world that he wasn't a radical nazi...etc
@Rafael Resende I'm not talking about this, my comment was about what he said in his book about the conversation between him and Hitler, he said that he told hitler he was not only against his orders but he even did the opposite. Now I ask you a question on this point : Do you really think that speer told him that and Hitler did nothing ? Is there any evidence that he told him that ? I just want you to know that the biggest thing in the world hitler dont accept is Insubordination.
Speer is like that only friend the school shooting kid made.
What does that make Eva Braun?
@@nicholasoneal1521 his girlfriend of course
”You have always been nice to me”
True he basically forced everyone to die with him but let speer leave even after betraying him
@@jolojrdook1419My opinion is that only man Hitler ever truly cared was Albert Speer. He saw in Speer what he always wanted to be. Speer to him was like a son he never had. Speer obviously mislead world thinking that he was just caught up in it. Speer was a young man looking for a father figure that he found in Adolf Hitler.
You can tell that was a Julius Caesar moment. Speer sank the final dagger into Hitler and all Hitler can do is accept it like "et tu?"
They casted Speer flawlessly, he looks exactly like him.
Eh, the guy from valkery looked the most like Speer.
Eh, Heino Ferch did a good job acting but he doesn't look like Speer at all.
No he doesn't. Hewel should portrayed Spear.
Endphase des Krieges befindet sich Speer total erschöpft und seine Gesundheit wurde durchaus beschädigt
Imagine your closest best friend and trustest companion betrayed to you,it must been felt hurt
Hitler cried the last time before his death that day.
It`s a film. Most likely he did not cry, but had bursts of anger. Hitler had no friends, only subjects. Maby he was delusional and belived Speer liked him. But reality is that Speer was from a higher class than him and had real artistic and organisational skills and was charming and likeable. Hitler was always envious of Speer and tryed to imitate his tastes. Speer was a pure opportunist, he saw the possibillitys in the third reich and took them. When they where gone he simply left.
Why didnt he killed speer
@@ThomasJoseph-ht1mu As i answer over is a possibillity. Most likely because he was delusional about Speer beeing his real friend. Reality was that Speer was just manipulating Hitler with flatter and lies. Personaly dont belive this story the way Speer tells it. Most likely it never happend because in reality not following Hitlers orders was the same as a 100% sure death sentence. It`s most likely revisjonism/lie from Speer to fool the Alies into beliving that in reality he was not the ruthless psycofant as the others and that he was just a bureaucrat following orders. Speer was a master manipulator and a " killer behind a desk" type
@@Ikaros23 Brilliant points. Speer was a lying, self-serving shit.
@@Ikaros23 where'd you get this info from? like what books? its very impressive. I like how you've analysed the close relationships in the reich but I do have to say hitler somewhat did have friends, purely because he viewed as a god in the people kept close to him. two prime examples being goring and goebbles. Goring admitted many times the war was lost from the end of the battle of britain, he also often bore brunt of hitlers outburts and saved alot of jews personally. however despite all this he still followed his fuhrer plunging the country into the ground with all his loyalty up until the end of his life, maintaining his justifications at nuremberg. he is often critiqued for this manner in which he placed hitler's personal agendas above lives itself. Goring changed aspects of his personal life to impress hitler, where I can see the friend relationship
Hitler breaks a pencil, the tool that an architect and artist uses - the thing that united him to Speer
I don’t know if that symbolism was intentional, but that’s an incredible description. Bravo
Imagine the balls you must have to tell Hitler "I sabotaged your orders" without sugarcoating it, straight to the point.
Certainly didn't happen like that, but nice drama.
@@rickglorie it could have very well happened like this. There was nothing left to lose.
@@DoIgopyatUnless Hitler testified that this is what happened, this is as acceptable as believing in the existence of Shangri-La. Speer has an agenda to make himself look good and his auobiography is the only source historians have of the inner workings of the Third Reich...
@@DoIgopyatSpeer was probably the only man who could be honest to Adolf like that. We also don't know if Hitler actually said anything about Speer afterwards. There seem to have been a lot of jealousy towards Speer for him being in Hitler's favor. Hitler probably viewed it as a son standing up to his father.
4:14 Speer quite frankly stands in the ruins of what was once almost the biggest empire in Europe, on par with Napoleon's genius and speed, once threatening Great Britain and the Soviet Union, only to come crashing down so quickly. He leaves, never to return to the Neue Reichkanzlei, understanding clearly it's over.
Bruno Ganz gives one of the finest performances in the history of film.....he makes Hitler seem much more complex than the pure evil character he is usually portrayed as.....which he was
No i think hitler himself was complex not just pure evil
The pure evil version is just the victors version of him
@@DA-hk5nv its true to a certain extent reading carefully historians especially for starting ww2.winners write history.stalin was horrible comparing to him
To be honest I think it all came down to his parents (specifically he's father) that changed his behavior then to harsh world where he suffered emotionally financially and spiritually without the ability to be himself as a good painter or just the man who just wanted to live a normal life and finally the propaganda the states broadcasted combined with WW1 did I see the good side of him truly perish and been replaced by a broken man beyond repair. I have in no way sympathy towards Hitler but it was those events did it mold him to become something it wasn't meant for this world
@@miniatureben3558 Or maybe he just wanted to save germany.
This is actually kinda sad. To have one of your most trusted peers reveal he betrayed you.
One of the best movies I've ever seen
Why do the subtitles always have to be inaccurate? He doesn't say "I don't find it hard to continue". He says "I don't find it hard to depart from the scene." (i.e. die).
@@behindyou3689 I speak too but the subtitles are wrong
@@behindyou3689 how else would he know?
One the one hand they must be short enough to be read and on the other the goal was to translate the essence of what was said not what was actually said.
all i can say is, that pencil snap was PERSONAL.
As much as it's rude to not shake someone's hand when they offer it to you, I don't blame Hitler for refusing to shake Speer's hand, because I can see how betrayed and broken he looked.
You do know his order was stupid right, basically reducing what was built during the 12 year rule of the Nazis into a pile of scrap. Their only good contribution to the german people after 7 million citizens of their utopian fascist socialist state died under the war they initiated
@@inigobantok1579 I'm certain Speer referenced the other projects that could have benefitted Hitler during the war.
It's good that they didn't come to fruition otherwise that would have resulted in more death, but still Hitler felt the cruel jab of betrayal from a man he had upmost love for.
@@inigobantok1579 nazis weren't socialists you fucking troglodyte
@@shivjethwa4439 their economic system was full on government bureaucracy and interference on every aspect of German life in order to sustain a certain industry of the economy, which is war production. Add to that their massive deficit spending on construction works to herald their ideology of self sustainability.
@@inigobantok1579 the first victims of the concentration camps were socialists, the communist party was banned, trade unions were banned and huge corportations were given benefits. Plus the term privatisiation was coined by nazis. they were not socialists
This was almost true to the book
4:18
If you just cut it out for a moment that Speer was partly responsible for the Holocaust, you do really feel sorry for him. Imagine: You have been put in charge in redesigning an entire city and are meant to turn it into the capital of the world...only to have these plans crumble apart with your architecture and to finally see them surrounded by flames in a mess of rubble and ashes... It‘s really hard not to feel sorry for him, especially considering what a prick he was...
He wasn’t just a city designer though. From 1938 onwards he was involved in the removal of Jews from their homes, and in 1942 he was made Minister for Armaments for the entire reich, where he extremely capable at the political game with the other high level men in the reich like Bormann, Goring and Himmler. He explicitly created a group that’s sole purpose was to kidnap occupied citizens for use in slave labour for the war machine, and (unlike what his book and interviews say) he had a role in the Holocaust, helping to expand auchwitz and even visiting a concentration camp. He was, by reports, extremely politically motivated and had hoped to be named Hitlers successor, extremely unlike the myth that prevailed following the release of his book and subsequent interviews where he was portrayed largely as a non-political technocrat with no interest in the reich, and its policies.
@@daraghjohnYou read too much Joo propaganda
That is not true. Speer was never a nazi or believed in the nazi ideology
@@justusP9101Source? Speer's own autobiography downplay his involvement with the Nazis, casting himself as the "saner" one amongst the sea of drug addicts and hare-brained occultists that form the inner circle. He has an agenda to downplay his role with the Third Reich when the standard penalty for being declared guilty of those crimes is execution...
Speer just took the Mass Effect Paragon option
If this was Russia circa 2022, Speer's equivalent would really need to worry about being near any windows.
"They called this fate upon themselves" - I mean he has a point, Hitler didn't get to where he was because he had "a few loyal followers", he had millions upon millions of them.
Even though it was a case of vote for me or suffer the consequences
I think he is bashing his generals and military in that statement.
2:41 best moment in the whole movie for me it's priceless
I just rewatched the movie after years and realized that in the end of the scene, Speer looks back at the 'NeueReichskanzlei', the New Reich Chancellary, wich was designed by him and was only finished 6years prior. Just imagine all the thoughts that has gone through his head in a second while looking at the embodiment of his possible and more succesful future. "Alles Vorbei"
I think Its also a look back to Hitler and Berlin Itself. A city where he spent most of his life now In ruins and decay.
It's interesting to note that at the beginning of the film, Albert Speer is wearing his military (Organization Todt?) Uniform with rank and Nazi party insignia. Soon afterwards, he ditches the uniforms and wears a business suit. At the end of the film, at his last meeting with Hitler, he wears a suit with no Nazi party insignia, not even a lapel pin or armband.
It is well known that many German officers and troops, especially SS, ditched their uniforms and put on civilian clothing to appear more innocuous and blend in with civilians. Speer was cunning and is likely preparing for his capture by not wearing anything identifiably Nazi, thus appear more innocent than he was.
He was a smart fella
Although Hitler was wrong
I feel sad that his own man had betrayed him So badly.
The orders Speer was given was to destroy architecture and cities throughout Western Europe to slow down the Allies, But Speer could not bring himself to follow them. He did not want to be the one who destroyed Europe for Hitlers vanity. So he quietly disobeyed and sabotaged those plans.
@@psilobom lmao, been reading too much of his lies he made to cover himself up?
@@omegaproductions6667 Speer is a little bitch who is getting his mouth pissed in as Hitlers personal cup bearer in Valhalla.
@@CaiusCosades44 cope
I don't.
My great uncle corresponded with Speer after he was released from prison. I have copies of the letters written by Speer. I work with a nurse who is German, and she has translated some of them for me.
What did they say?
Can you post them somewhere??
How interesting. Can you provide more information?
You have great videos, but are you monetized yet?
If he does it, yt will flag him and put down the channel.
Very interesting choice of music at the end here-- Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas by English composer Henry Purcell (1659-1695).
The fall of Carthage. "Remember meeee"
Albert Speer got 20 years in the Nuremberg trials
Rightfully so.
He weaseled out of the certain noose at that trial.
Less than he deserved, for the hundreds of thousands of forced labourers.
Yea he did use forced labour while he was head of the industry. He was still a piece of shit, just not as bad as some of the others.they
@@rippspeck Why rightfully so? He was a victim of the same establishment that hired him. He deserved little time.
Nobody seems to notice that there are multiple English translations of this film. The one depicted here is the most rare with the yellow subtitles. The mainstream white small ones miss so many subtle differences int he dialogue that make it truly shine.
Tremenda escena. Un balde de agua fría, esta fue la cruz que clavaron sobre la tumba
Can anyone link me this clip without subtitles? Thanks.
1:39
Speer telling Hitler there won’t be no santa Clause this Christmas
Understanding German far better than I did originally watching this it was a fun to rewatch. Even simple things; Hitler says at :28 “sitz mir uns” (informally saying sit with me- as to a friend) not “let’s sit down”.
I would add it seems to me that Speers consistently used the formal Ihnen to du
@@factbeaglesarebest That’s because he always calls him “Mein Führer“, i.e. he calls him by title. ;)
He says setzen wir uns. But it's close enough
The shots of him walking thru the bunker while everyone is talking and minding their own business, makes it feel like he's the main character. One of the best scenes in history, despite being such a short and forgettable scene. Awesome movie.
Almost every line here is memorable. Incredible scene.
friendship goals
Speer was always trying to work the system. He even thought about dropping a poison gas bomb down the smoke stack of the bunker, but the night he went to scope it out, he discovered that the smoke stack had been lengthened for security. He had a love-hate relationship with Hitler.
According to himself at least. Speer was a liar through and through and most of his "claims" have long been proven to be false by historians. Speer had one big advantage over Hitler: He survived the war and could form his own narrative of it.
Hitler basically became the scapegoat for everyone trying to safe their own skin...after all a dead person cant protest or argue against it.
@@noobster4779 good point. His memoirs do indeed need to be taken with a grain of salt.
This story about the bunker and the poison gas was something that he told to defend himself at the Nuremberg trial. It was never proven.
@@talex7473he whitewashed himself for sure, but that doesn’t mean he was as bad as many people say he is
It's always that no one understands you. That's always the problem. That's every dictator's problem. "If only, if only, if only, no one understands my vision..."
It's never YOU. It's always everyone else.
Oh, shit...
Downfall is one of the best Movies ever
Pov : Your Friend leaves you for a girl
You know you messed up big time when your best friend left you.
A tragedy. All of it.
Yeah a tragedy that they got away with it, both of them.
@Elvia Darkgrape Incel moment
Yes a tragedy that they started
@@greenlime1997 Blame the unfair treaties forced on Germany for a war they didn’t even start.
@@weazels What the hell did you just say? Blame the 'unfair treaties' for a genocide? No, my friend, you are gravely mistaken. Fine, I'll grant you that the Versailles treaty was what allowed Hitler's rise to power, but the support he gained was built off of the antisemitism of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Jews being the typical scapegoat in Europe for hundreds of years. No unfair treaty would have changed that. Fine, I'll grant you Germany didn't start WW1, but they didn't exactly have to go and use mustard gas, A WAR CRIME, and commit atrocities in Belgium and Luxembourg, use forced labour, sink civilian boats and deport and murder civilians. May I also remind you that, like all empires, the german empire was brutal. Genocide and slave labour in Namibia happened. The treaty of Versailles was nothing compared to the evils of the German empire throughout its history. Germany definitely caused a lot of suffering, even during its imperial days. The treaty of Versailles is nothing compared to what Imperial Germany did. You cannot just blame the cause of the worst regime of all mankind that caused the darkest days in world history, on some treaty.
A friend of mine worked for speers son in his architect office in Frankfurt, hes still there
Crazy stuff
Any confessions?
Its really sad how most people think that A.H. was heart broken of Speers betrayal. NO! NO! AND AGAIN NO! He was heart broken because he released that all his plans with speer and all his 'great' projects for Germania will never happen and never succeed. There is video explaining Untergang/Downfall and its specially explains this scene. THIS WAS NOT CRY OF BETRAYAL BUT A CRY THAT HE NEVER SEES HIS VISION AND NONE OTHER WILL.
Damn, thats sad
No it's not
@Elvia Darkgrape shut up nazi
Shut up radicals!
@@sebastianelytron8450 is that supposed to be an insult?
@@thesniperofstalingrad7556 I cannot think of a worse one. Can you?
Top 10 anime betrayal
For the best book on Speer read Gitta Sereny's biography of him, 'Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth'. It's truly a masterpiece.
What’s it about? Give me a short summary
@justusxxx9101 It's both a biography and an attempt at getting a true confession and admission from Speer, as she becomes his friend over the course of hundreds of interviews. The big question is how does a well-educated, moral and reasoning man become part of a great evil, and how does such a man face it within himself and perform contrition. Sereny is a brilliant writer, Speer is a fascinating storyteller and he really brings to life the growing surreal insanity within 30s / 40s Germany and the eventual downfall. He admits a certain guilt, regret, horror... but Sereny is pitiless in pursuing her objective of making him stare unflinchingly at all of his crimes in acknowledgement. In part it's a battle of wills and an interrogation - it really is gripping stuff.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures what is the conclusion?
@justusxxx9101 He comes part of the way to full confession but falters and can't make the final jump. Sereny is ultimately frustrated and with the evidence she presents its left to the reader the question, 'how much did he know?' and, 'is it true remorse?' My feeling is he DID know and he does feel true remorse, but lacks the moral courage for confession and contrition.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures that is an answer good enough for me. I will still feel compassion for Speer but i accept who he was and what he did
What is said above the door at 3:55? Translation?
Service building only for members of the reichs chancellery
Translation: Service building (or office building) only for members (meaning staff) of the Reich Chancellery
@@bielefeldundmehr2461 Awesome, thanks for the response!
Loyalty is a good thing if given to a good person. It is a terrible thing if given to an evil person, such as Hitler.
from an PAL-toned International but original German-language print of Der Untergang/ Downfall (2004) (2005 in certain areas)
The conversation shown most certainly did not occur... Speer retold the story to appear as if he challenged hitler... Hitler would have hung Speer on a meat hook if Hitler knew that Speer betrayed Hitler's orders...
Was Speer thinking "I wonder if he's going to order my arrest and execution?" As he left the building.
Anyone else notice Dido's Lament (the music)?
Yesssss - just this time, and I've seen the scene dozens of times. Beautiful and appropriate (the fall of Carthage, Dido committing suicide, "Remember me")
Albert Speer was a cunning fox I am listening too he’s Audiobook now
Lovin me some *breaks pencil*
The way Hitler snapped his pencil and wiped his brow…its the ultimate “you’ve gatta be fuckin kidding me” 😂
4:21 the actor of Albert Speer was much more handsome than that small freak of Speer.
The soundtrack almost sounds a little bit like When I am lain in Earth.
What an outstanding film.
This almost made me cry, that's how I felt like when my schoolmate commited suicide in January 6, 2021. I think she loved me secretly and couldn't tell me it.
I am sorry for your loss,but it was her decision
@@giovanicampanini189 Aw man, but my shoolmate was step cousin of my best friend which is now in fifth grade.
@@giovanicampanini189 Bruh
@@giovanicampanini189 I agree, people should ask their parents permission before ending it!11
Was she hot?
If anyone is curious, when Speer talks about how he "sabotaged [Hitler's] orders for destruction", he's talking about the Nerobefehl (Nero Decree) where Hitler ordered Speer to sabotage all German infrastructure to basically destroy what was left of Germany to prevent the allies from using German infrastructure after the war. Speer deliberately disobeyed this order which is what he's referring to here.
Gotta hand it to Hugo Boss, those outfits, that jacket!
Very sad scene. Great acting and overall, compelling film. A realistic view of the Fuhrer (RIP)
It’s the guy on my hoodie 😮
In the movie Downfall, there is a scene depicting the final meeting between Adolf Hitler and his architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer. This scene is often referred to as "Speer's last conversation with Hitler" and is commonly used in parodies.
Description of the Scene:
The scene is characterized by a lot of silence, creating a tense atmosphere [1].
Hitler is seen breaking his pencil in half and throwing it on the floor, symbolizing his frustration and despair [1].
Hitler is shown crying, displaying his emotional state [1].
In the Movie:
The scene begins with Speer entering Hitler's office, where Hitler is glad to see him [1].
Hitler recounts his life leading up to the present circumstances, still believing in his views on the Jewish people [1].
After a moment of silence, Speer informs Hitler that he did not carry out the destruction of the Third Reich's civil infrastructure as ordered, but emphasizes his loyalty to Hitler [1].
Hitler becomes saddened by this revelation and breaks his pencil in response [1].
Speer then leaves the office, offering a handshake that Hitler does not respond to [1].
As Speer exits the bunker, Hitler is shown crying with tears flowing down his face [1].
Parodies and Alternate Uses:
This scene has been widely used in parodies, often with modifications or alternate scenarios [1].
In some parodies, the pencil Hitler breaks is referred to as the "Pencil of Doom and Mass Destruction" [1].
The scene has also been used without the parts involving Speer, with other characters replacing him [1].
He didn’t say eternal peace he said eternal quiet. Big difference
The main problem of Hitler's scorched earth policy was that Speer and the Nazis didn't even have the resources to carry out such an order. The order was likely refused forthmost out of pure inability, similar to how generals ignored Hitler's army movement orders because, well, the armies he was moving did not exist. I'm sure Speer was still morally opposed to the order, but this story of him confronting Hitler in his office and heroically announcing his moral superiority to the tyrant seems like another fabrication of the Speer Myth. We now know that Speer was a pragmatist who was only concerned about his own self-preservation. Why would he go to the bunker and risk execution?
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I doubt Speer was that honest. He certainly wasn’t after the war, as he skillfully dodged the noose.
"And one final thing mein Fuhrer -- I was never really your Secret Santa."
02:48 "This never compromised my personal loyalty to you." Muahahahahahahahaha !!! You don´t say !
The first quote is from Hitler himself. The second one is from the memoirs of Nazi Minister of Armaments Albert Speer, speaking in reference to Islam:
1. "Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers, then we should in all probability have been converted to Islam, that cult which glorifies heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world."
2. "For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. The German peoples would have become heirs to that religion. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. The Muslim religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
"My Führer, it...it was me who shaved off your nice big moustache into a tiny toothbrush one. Please forgive me"
ahaha you think i’m dead you were wrong
Gut...auf wiedersehen
Mr.Opportunist meets sadboi for one last time
Dentist speer 😳😳😳
@@gaminghours7962what does that mean???
I can understand Hitler..
he is not what we call a good guy... I am very much for the Jews... well Israel is a pain in the ass.
@@Halbi1987 not what it's about, he's not a good guy but you can understand his pain, all of his colleagues and closest friends betrayed him on the last days of the war, he must've felt terrible and his life worthless, that's what you understand about him.
No you can't.
What he said about Germans was beyond disgusting.
Thank God, he lost the war.
@@kayvan671 I understand it most
Speer informs Hitler about Steven Harwell
one of my best friends studied urban planning with Albert Speer jr., who - in a documentary movie - is seen sitting on Hitler's lap....so imagine you have only one person between you and the Führer....
Speers saying let the people go is some BS, we all know what he was like
yep. He was fascist scum. The brownie points he scored himself through his books and towards the end of the war changed his perception as the 'good nazi'. He used slaves to build his buildings.
Had Speer been in charge, I think Germany would’ve been fine. Not only could the nation accomplish its goals, but probably would’ve been no war. Speer was extremely professional and competent.
Ich liebe diese Szene
probably his last best friend ever
Greatest World War Two movie made hands down.
It's too hard to defend hitler, but most of the movies about him were distorted, that's to say he's been described as just a crazy person, but when I watched this movie, I figured out about him as one of a person, not a monster. I appriciate what the film director made me understood how much it's made fairly.
0:01:37 Eternal peace? I don't want to be where Hitler is at this moment!
The nero decree would have destroyed Germany .
Yo Speer!
It's hard to imagine Hitler crying
to tell in English the concept I just expressed time ago in italian. For somebody, Germans but not only, this might remind the drama by Friedrich Schiller "Don Carlos" (from which the opera by Giuseppe Verdi, tomorrow opening of season at La Scala), Act IV, Scene XXIV, when King Philip II feels betrayed by Rodrigo of Posa? It's out of stage, but is Count of Lerma who tells "The King has wept" to the other "Grandes" who are astonished. (This is not in Verdi, who had to be more "synthetic" and simplify the plot). We should remember, per incidens, that in "Tonio Kroger" by Thomas Mann the main character as a youngster is deeply fascinated by this scene.
im not neo nazi's But this realy Sad
imagine all Loyaly Hitler bertayed Himself and Leave You alone in Bungker
Well i'm one