Wow. What a thread...

I've watched "Der Untergang" in the vernacular on Youtube. English subtitles a bit irritating but I prefer it to watching a dubbed version. I thought Ganz did an incredible job. Deserved an Oscar for that.

As for the nature of Hitler, Nazism etc... I don't think folks will ever stop writing screeds on that topic. Not ever. Because it was probably the most exceptional upheaval in world history. A blatantly racist attempt at control of the European landmass by one group by the subjugation and extermination of all disparate groups. Nowhere, and nowhen, else has any group progressed so far along such a path. As to wether or not Hitler was clinically insane, before or during his life, and how much he deteriorated as events progressed, wether influenced by drugs or not, that's something that will probably never be definitively known.

One thing that needs highlighting though. While Nazism as it came to be during the Third Reich was largely a creation of Hitler, he didn't do it in a vaccume. Much in Germany, and in fact in Europe as a whole was receptive to such crude racism.

- Peter.

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