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There must be a couple of hundred YouTube Hitler videos, "Hitler Mad Because the Aggies Lost," "Hitler Denounces Supreme Court ACA Decision," etc. But what is he really mad about?
This much I can make out: Informed that the Allied armies are marching towards Berlin, Hitler shrugs as if to say "We've got that covered." Then one of the generals informs him that the situation is much worse, it's really bad. Hitler chases every underling from the room so that he can explode.
Is this scene true to life?
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What's the actual history here?
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zeemike
(18,998 posts)But I love the genre that has formed around this...it cracks me up most of the time.
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Understanding the German words gets in the way of the subtitles.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)This could never be popular in the German speaking countries....and they probably think it weird that we do this.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)obamanut2012
(26,142 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)Not that he wasn't at the start, he was just worse.
He was informed that general Steiner had been cut off and wouldn't be able to relieve Berlin from the russians. At that he blew his top, since he was still under the delusion that he had armies marching all over Europe. He went off on the generals in what he perceived as their incompetence, when in fact, it was his own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Steiner
Napolean did the same sort of thing in 1814 when the sixth coalition was aiming for Paris. Of course, Napolean had lost 450,000 ( out of 500,000 ) men on the march on Moscow, which he had planned and executed. If he hadn't lost so many men, he probably would have marched all over Europe for another 20 years.
thelordofhell
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rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:17 PM - Edit history (2)
One scene in the film, in which Hitler launches into a furious tirade upon finally realizing that the war is truly lost, has become a staple of internet videos...subtitles are added so that he now seems to be reacting instead to some setback in present-day politics, sports, popular culture, or everyday life...The film's director, Oliver Hirschbiegel, spoke positively about these parodies...saying that many of them were funny and they were a fitting extension of the film's purpose: "The point of the film was to kick these terrible people off the throne that made them demons, making them real and their actions into reality. I think it's only fair if now it's taken as part of our history, and used for whatever purposes people like."
Nevertheless...the producers initiated a removal of parody videos...(A)n attorney specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, stated, "All the (Downfall parody videos) that I've seen are very strong fair use cases and so they're not infringing, and they shouldn't be taken down."
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Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)Funny? [link:
|AJTheMan
(288 posts)I saw that and flipped out because it came straight from the authority on fascism.
You sig is cool too since it describes the RW's propaganda on class warfare,i seem to recall a protest sign that i'll paraphrase;"Its only Class Wafare when the Poor fight back."
Peace.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The movie is quite good.
Basically, toward the end, he was directing movements of units which had been decimated, and blaming the failure to hold Europe on disloyal generals.
Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...realizing she lost the nomination to Barack Obama. If you were an Obama supporter here for at least a few months before the convention, the rhetoric got so goddamned nasty from the Clinton camp that some hardcore supporters just started to 'pop' psychologically. It was bad. Huge parts of that whole campaign just...snapped in the head. Then it started to come out they were willing to steal it with super-delegates and this actually looked like it would go down like that. Fucking nightmare world. And then the supers...after a nerve-wracking interval...started to move over to Obama. That's about the time Adomian made his version of the famous scene.
And it's a rough watch, especially if you're politically correct, but it captured the attitude and predicted the extreme ugliness the Clintons dragged the convention into. While there exist hundreds of other versions on different topics, Adomian's version struck its blow perfectly and, like a world-class editorial cartoon, momentarily turned the horrific into the absurd.
PB
rocktivity
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...(I)t's a rough watch, especially if you're politically correct, but it captured the attitude and predicted the extreme ugliness the Clintons dragged the convention into.If Hillary didn't realize that she'd reached the end of the line the night she lost North Carolina and barely won Indiana, she should have.
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