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The film centers on Hitler's bunker, but there were also scenes of the wider defense of Berlin. The film includes the chilling scene on Hitler's birthday. He emerges from the bunker for the last time to decorate a group of Hitler Youth boys fighting in the defance of the city (figure 1). Many like these boys continued to believe to the very end what NAZI radio broadcasts told them, that miracle weapons would make it possible for Germany to win the War. They wear the Winter Hitler Youth uniform. These boys and other Berliners are dieing to give Hitler a few more days life. A particularly heartrendering scene deals with the Goebbels children. They are shown singing to some German soldiers. One of these chilren is a boy, he wears a white shirt, black short trousers held up by braces. The children wear typical middle class clothing of the Nazi period. The girls all wear wash dresses with ankle socks. The boy wears shorts (with detachable suspenders), knee socks, and a white shirt. The children later are given a sleeping draft so that their mother can adminster a capsule containing poison. Dr. and Mrs. Goebels could not conceive of the children growing up in Germany without the Führer. After poisoning the children, they committed suicide themselves as the Russian Army was closing in on the bunker. There are other boys seen in the film but very briefly.
The film centers on Hitler's bunker, but there were also scenes of the wider defense of Berlin. The film includes the chilling scene on Hitler's birthday. He emerges from the bunker for the last time to decorate a group of Hitler Youth boys fighting in the defance of the city (figure 1). Many like these boys continued to believe to the very end what NAZI radio broadcasts told them, that miracle weapons would make it possible for Germany to win the War. They wear the Winter Hitler Youth uniform. These boys and other Berliners are dieing to give Hitler a few more days life.
A particularly heartrendering scene deals with the Goebbels children. They are shown singing to some German soldiers. One of these chilren is a boy, he wears a white shirt, black short trousers held up by braces. The children wear typical middle class clothing of the Nazi period. The girls all wear wash dresses with ankle socks. The boy wears shorts (with detachable suspenders), knee socks, and a white shirt. The children later are given a sleeping draft so that their mother can adminster a capsule containing poison. Dr. and Mrs. Goebels could not conceive of the children growing up in Germany without the Führer. After poisoning the children, they committed suicide themselves as the Russian Army was closing in on the bunker.
There are other boys seen in the film but very briefly.
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