Joachim Fest Articles
DOWNFALL Movie Accused of Humanizing Hitler
One of history's most hated monsters has undergone a humanizing makeover in the German motion picture Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reiches (Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Based on historian Joachim Fest's best-selling Adolf Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator's last personal secretary, Traudl Junge, Downfall chronicles the last days of [...]