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After they committed suicide, the bodies of Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun were burned—as Hitler himself had insisted—outside an emergency exit from the bunker in which they spent their last days...
...bunker itself was discovered only in 1990 during, of all things, preparations for “The Wall,” the mammoth concert Roger Waters organized in celebration of German reunification. In May 1995, the regional parliament of Berlin, rejecting a proposal to retain the site as a monument, locked it and built houses for the representatives from the Bundesländer over it. A present-day visitor can walk by without having any idea of its significance...
KILLED. ASLAN MASKHADOV, 53, separatist leader elected President of the Chechen Republic in 1997, during a brief period of self-rule; by Russian special forces, who cornered him in a bunker and bombed it when he refused to surrender; in Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya. After the slaying of this relative moderate, who was open to negotiation with the Russian government, rebels vowed to carry on an Islamic holy war to wrench the region from Russian control...
Here's a moviegoing opportunity you may want to refuse but should not: spending 21/2 hours trapped underground in a dank bunker with world history's most loathsome creature...
What's perhaps most striking about Downfall is how profoundly everyone in the bunker loves death. Hitler, naturally, thinks the Germans have betrayed him and is willing to let them all die in a great Gtterdmmerung while he passes out poison capsules to his circle. This leads to the most horrifying sequence in the film: Magda Goebbels, wife of the notorious Propaganda Minister, poisoning all six of her children because she does not want them to grow up in a world without National Socialism. This act, a blend of romantic and ideological fervor, is almost unbearable to witness...