Hitler In The Fall Of Berlin And Downfall

The films The Fall of Berlin (film 1) and Downfall (film 2) both present different depictions of Adolf Hitler in his final days during the Battle of Berlin. The first film provides a contrast between Hitler and Stalin throughout Germanys’ war with the Soviet Union. The Fall of Berlin was truly a propaganda film to promote Stalin as a leader and celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory against Germany. The film portrays Hitler as an explosive, demanding and unreasonable dictator who acts more as a child throwing a tantrum than a leader. He openly berates his commanders over the failure to seize Moscow calling them useless fools and claims his own genius is the only solution to winning the war. While Stalin is depicted as the calm, patient and understanding father figure …show more content…
As seen through the eyes of Dr. Zygumunt Klukowski in his diary of the occupation, the Poles were very wary of the Red Army’s invasion and some like Klukowski himself were demoralized as the appearance of the Red Army robbed the Poles of their chance to claim their own victory against the Germans and their subsequent freedom. The Red Army’s actual occupation of liberated towns in Poland was not very different from German occupation, they were strict and enforced a curfew among other rules, confiscated goods and threatened death if not obeyed but were never spontaneously cruel, which was the only real positive for the Poles. The Soviet presence in Poland sparked the Warsaw Uprising, where the Polish Home Army and resistance force tried to claim Warsaw from the Germans before the Red Army, an act which resulted in the massacre of Warsaw’s population destruction of the city. The failure of the Warsaw uprising ensured that the London Poles lost the majority of the influence they had in the country and lead to a coalition Polish Soviet