Blind Spot

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Marina, May 6, 2005.

  1. Marina

    Marina Senior Member

    I watched Traudl Junge's account of her association with Hitler. Fascinating stuff - what a nightmare the bunker was in those last months. Her view of his personal relationships - non existent apart for the one with his dog - was quite chilling. I suppose he would have to have been that 'dead' to be able to do the things he did. Also interesting was his absolute refusal to see what was going on in Germany - travelling on the train with the blinds down for example. Stalin was the same, wasn't he? Never could face being confronted with reality.
    Marina
     
  2. Kiwiwriter

    Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member

    Yes, that really happened. I include it in my web page on World War II.

    He never visited a hospital, never toured ruins (except the Reichschancellery), never visited a bombed city, never went to air raid shelters, never went to the front to give pep talks. Goebbels did all that for him.

    He just had no interest in people at all...at the very end, he was happy to order the executions of his old cronies, flood the U-bahns, full of wounded civilians, and send 12-year-old boys armed with Panzerfausts and myths to their deaths.

    Horrible person. :(
     

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