It is often said that this film "humanise" Hitler and some people have problem with that. But in my opinion, to humanise Hitler is a necessary step towards understanding the crimes to humanity he committed.
Watching this film reminds me of a review of "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday I wrote a year ago. For some reason, the review has recently received hundreds of hits. This is quite surprising considering its age and the fact that I wrote it after reading an edited extract rather than the entire book (I have not read the book nor do I intend to).
Anyway, the point I tried to make in the review was, you can't begin to understand the complex personality of Mao and the atrocious legacy he left by trivialising him through broad-brush demonisation.
And the same is true for Hitler.
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