PREVIEW: Backer Bonus E5 Downfall
I Don't Speak German
IDSG
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode about 2004's Downfall about Hitler's last days (it's the source of the YouTube 'Hitler gets angry' meme).
Plus access to all other bonus episodes.
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Show Notes:
Downfall at Wikipedia
Traudl Junge at Wikipedia
Hitler Downfall Parody Memes
Ian Kershaw on Downfall
- Does it help us to understand Hitler any better? My own feeling is that, brilliant though the portrayal is, it does not. It is hard to see how it could - or, indeed, what great enlightenment it would bring if we did know him better (whatever that means). Would we then have a clearer grasp of his hold over the German people, or why so many intelligent individuals in positions of authority were prepared to put his wishes into practice? At any rate, no amount of intuitive acting is likely to make him any more intelligible to audiences which cannot possibly enter his warped mentality. His life has been scrutinised as scarcely no one else’s, but an inner core is still unfathomable. Hitler will always remain in some senses an enigma.
Christian Berkel at Wikipedia
- Bartender “Eric” in Inglourious Basterds, Ernst-Günther Schenck in Downfall.
Alfred Zech at Wikipedia
AP History 2019 Exam Questions
- Not even a mention of WWII.
The Massaging of History by David Cesarani and Peter Longerich https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/07/germany.secondworldwar
"The film Downfall relies on memoirs written by Hitler's allies to distance themselves from Nazism"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | IDSG bonus episodes are a regular extra just for patreon backers of myself or Daniel. Here's a |
| 0:06.4 | preview of the new one. By continuing to be in the meeting, you are sending to being recorded. |
| 0:11.0 | All right, then. Oh, apparently they've had some some some lawyers get involved in this whole thing |
| 0:16.1 | apparently. So yeah, yeah, probably. I mean, I would say it's never a good sign when lawyers |
| 0:24.5 | get involved, but we are talking about the tech industries. Yeah, it's probably. It's kind of like |
| 0:32.1 | a libra shrugged. It's like, well, I mean, the banks are terrible, but they are dealing with |
| 0:38.4 | Facebook. And so yeah, it turns out the multinational banks are the good guys in the situation. |
| 0:44.8 | They are at least theoretically supposed to have some rules that they stick by, you know. Yeah, |
| 0:49.6 | well, I mean, or like, you know, when the red army is bombing Berlin in 1935, it's sort of well. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, is the red army a completely unimpeachable organization? No. |
| 1:03.7 | Well, I mean, Stalin, Stalin was, Stalin was one of history's greatest monsters, but Hitler, |
| 1:09.4 | you know, Hitler. Yeah, that's really, I mean, that's just that's just an argument winning move, |
| 1:14.2 | isn't it? Well, I mean, that is the Godwin thing, isn't it? But Hitler, you know, because it is |
| 1:21.2 | the nuke, it's the nuclear option that just wins the argument immediately. But Hitler, you know, |
| 1:26.1 | Hitler was on the other side of that. So, you know, whatever. Yeah, I mean, if, you know, |
| 1:31.2 | if one side is Hitler, then pretty much by definition, the other side is at least preferable, |
| 1:37.3 | you know. If you, if you have to pick a side, you know, the side that isn't Hitler is pretty much |
| 1:44.9 | always the best stop. Yeah, non-Hitler is the one to go for. I would say generally. |
| 1:52.4 | The hard to hard to fight a cat or example to that, you know. Yeah, it's like Robert Evans talking |
| 1:57.2 | about, you know, one of the episodes behind the bastards he was talking about, like, yeah, |
| 2:01.6 | then one of Hitler tried to commit suicide and his friend talked him out of it. And usually, |
| 2:07.8 | you think, talking to someone out of suicide, you're universal good. Maybe if your friend is Hitler |
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