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Downfall the Movie Downfall The actions of Nazi Germany were some of the most inhumane and abominable witnessed in the twentieth century. With so much horror and destruction left after its wake, one has to think -- was it inevitable? Or was the whole scenario avoidable? As the movie Downfall and history both show, Germany was in the midst of being dominated by a mob mentality. One which was fueled with propaganda and blatant lies.

This environment could not have produced any different result, as the mob mentality proved too powerful for Germany to avoid entirely in its already distressed state. The main characters in the movie Downfall are the major players in the last remnants of the Nazi regime in Germany. The movie features the infamous Adolf Hitler and his closest military and political advisors as they await their inevitable end towards the end of World War II and the power of the Nazi regime.

This highlights the insanity and mob mentality that dominated German politics, but also the fear of opposition that caused a general consensus towards even the most extreme of policies coming from Hitler's Nazi administration. Yet, this is contrasted with more everyday type characters, like Traudl Humps, one of Hitler's personal secretaries who documents the last futile days of the Nazi regime's elite. Unable to free themselves of the mob mentality, these average people get swept up in the Nazi war regime.

The major argument of the movie illustrates how the madness of one man influenced a regime and initiated the failure of an otherwise potentially powerful movement. The film shows Hitler as completely unreasonable and even on the verge of madness. Throughout the film, many of his advisors try to bring the ruler back to a sense of reality, but fail. One notable example was the case of Hermann Goring, who was trying to take command from a safer situation outside of Berlin.

Rather than giving in and allowing command to make the better move for Germany, Hitler denounced Goring and had him arrested for treason. The people around Hitler falter because they still have some sort of rational sense in their mentality, yet Hitler seems to have lost all sense. Everyone around him seems to still be in touch with reality, yet they are helpless with a leader who is still resistant to the thought of surrender and defeat.

There is the example of Albert Speer who essentially pleaded for Hitler not to enact the scorched earth plan in hopes of saving thousands of Germans. He is simply overlooked by the other Hitler fanatics who are so caught up in the mob mentality that was so representative of Nazi Germany. Rather than come to his senses, Hitler would rather scorch the earth, or enact the Demolitions of Reich Territory Decree, which was the mass suicide of the German people who remained during the last few weeks of the war.

In this madness, there was a continual belief that the Germans will still win the war, despite the clear fact that the Soviet Army was already well on its way to taking Berlin. There was not really another possible outcome, because of the social conditions and the practices of the upcoming Nazi regime within Germany at the time. The mob mentality has swept over Germany, because there were no easy solutions to the problems facing the German people.

Economic hardships after World War I had caused the decline of the average German's livelihood. What resulted was an over abundance of people accepting Hitler's fanatical claims because there was a lack of another viable solution. Hitler had been loosing his touch on reality throughout his rise to power. Yet, his influence seemed to blind those around him because of his seemingly impossible promises during such hard times. Even the most intelligent people in Germany at the time are helpless against the mob influence that brought the Nazi.