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▲== Hitler’s inner circle ==
▲== Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz) ==
* [[Ate His Gun]]: Though we never saw it happen.
* [[Bad Boss]]: While he can be nice to the people daily around him, he has zero sympathy for his [[Mooks]].
* [[Believing Their Own Lies]]: For a good part of the film he holds on to his delusions.
* [[Beneath the Mask]]: Traudl mentions how he can at one moment be pleasant, and the next moment say/scream such horrible things. Eva responds “You mean when he’s the Führer?” , so she seems to believe at least some part of his public self is a mask.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Disobeying him in any way.
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]
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* [[Large Ham]]
* [[Licked by the Dog]]: Licked by the Goebbels kids and Traudl
* [[Magnetic Hero]]: Glance through the rest of the characters. Most of them have [[Undying Loyalty]] to him.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[May-December Romance]]: When they marry, Hitler is 56 and Eva 33.
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* [[Say My Name]]: FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
* [[Smug Snake]]: Hitler claims to have conquered “all of Europe” despite his generals, but it’s obvious it goes [[General Failure|the other way around.]]
* [[The Sociopath]]: To [[Card-Carrying Villain]] levels. During a dinner he calmly discusses with Goebbels about how sympathy for the weak is a primal sin.
** He really did say that, or at least something along those lines: "Life is granted only to those who fight the hardest. It is the law of life: Defend yourself! The time in which we live has the appearance of the collapse of this idea of helping the weak." (Hitler's Table Talk)
* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: Believes to be so.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: Trying to take Germany with him.
* [[That's an Order]]: Steiner’s assault was an order! In general Hitler is unwilling of tolerating any kind of opposition to his will.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Every now and then.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]
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* [[Body Horror]]: She wants to be "a pretty corpse", and therefore opts for poison instead of guns.
* [[The Ditz]]
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* [[While Rome Burns]]
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* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Her moral code is not like ours.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
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* [[Lady Macbeth]]
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Plays solitaire after killing her children.
* [[Obliviously Evil]]: She honestly believes in National Socialism and thinks she’s doing the right thing [[Offing the Offspring|saving]] her kids from the horrible fate of living in a world without it.
* [[Offing the Offspring]]: During the film’s perhaps most depressing scene.
* [[Psycho Supporter]]: For Hitler
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Falls down on her knees and begs Hitler to escape from Berlin instead of committing suicide. When turned down, she breaks down in hysteric crying and has to be dragged away by Günsche. In contrast, she shows no fear or sadness while calmly waiting for her husband to shoot her.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: “Skeletor”
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* [[Yes-Man]]: So much. In one scene you can spot even Krebs rolling his eyes while Goebbels licks Hitler’s butt.
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* [[Cheerful Child]]
* [[Children Are Innocent]]
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* [[War Is Hell]]: In case the audience didn’t yet get the message.
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* [[Anti-Villain]]: Mostly [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type I]]. Arguably [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type II]].
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: While he considers himself to remain Hitler’s true friend, he admits to him disobeying his orders because he found them lunatic and inhuman.
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: Unlike Speer, he attempts to jump ships out of selfish interests. When Hitler learns about it, his reaction is much more severe and he wants Himmler dead.
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* [[Turncoat]]
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* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Not interested in the Nazi ideology or serving his country, but advancing his own position. Fegelein was deeply disliked by many both in [[Real Life]] (Speer described him as one of the most disgusting men in Hitler’s circle) and to some extend in the movie (Burgdorf calls him a careerist at his face.)
* [[Anti-Villain]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|Type I or II]]. A Nazi, an opportunist, a deserter… and a young man who just wants to live, unlike his lunatic fellow men determined to die for a crazy ideology.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: He becomes this to his yet unborn daughter.
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: Upon realizing he’s about to be executed, he buttons up his jacket and salutes Hitler.
* [[Gold Digger]]: The real Fegelein married Gretl Braun only to get closer to Hitler (Gretl was Eva Braun’s sister.) His relationship with his wife is left undiscussed in the movie, as she is never seen. However, he is shown to really be fond of at least Eva.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: “The playboy of the Third Reich”.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: This isn't the first time Thomas Kretschmann has played a Nazi. You may also recognize him from ''Resident Evil Apocalypse'' as Timothy Cain.
** He has also played a Nazi in films such as ''[[The Pianist]]'', ''[[Valkyrie (film)|Valkyrie]]'', ''[[Stalingrad]]''…
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: The real Hermann Fegelein didn't become [[Complete Monster|Heinrich Himmler's]] adjutant for being a nice person. Among his real-life war crimes were the deaths of 17,000 Soviet Jews in Byelorussia.
* [[I Have a Family]]: Not spoken by him, but by Eva on his behalf while she begs Hitler to save his life. It doesn’t work.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Has shades of this.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Or for a career. Interestingly both he and Magda Goebbels arranged themselves into a political marriage to get closer to Hitler. Only Magda did for passionate loyalty for National Socialism, while Fegelein simply climbs the ladders of the party that happens to in power.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Takes no part in Hitler’s delusions, nor has any interest in dying for Nazism. He also tries to convince others to come to their senses, with little success.
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Attempts it. It doesn't end well.
* [[Tragic Villain]]: He knows that the Nazis are going to lose the war in a matter of days and wants to get away from their messy demise, but his Nazi comrades, and Hitler, make things difficult for him to leave.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Being married doesn’t stop him from being found in a prostitute’s bed.
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* [[Audience Surrogate]]: An inexperienced new arrival in Hitler’s circle, level-headed and innocent of the horrid crimes most of the cast has committed.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Brunette and brainy enough to score a job as the secretary of the most important man in the Reich. Though in this company merely being of normal sanity places her above her surroundings. Unfortunately it doesn’t help her [[Horrible Judge of Character|judge of character.]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Brown Eyes]]: Brown eyed and down to earth.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]
* [[Friend to All Children]]: Befriends both the Goebbels children and later Peter.
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* [[Nice Guy|Nice Girl]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: In all innocence, as she’s clearly “a good girl”.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: Arguably this to Hitler, the real main character. However, the movie bookends with an interview of the real Traudl Junge, and her fate during the war is the carrying plot thread.
* [[Token Good Teammate]]
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Upset by people abandoning Hitler and determined to stay with him till the end.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208163240/hitlerparody/images/thumb/f/f6/TraudlSmiles.jpg/497px-TraudlSmiles.jpg Just]{{Dead link}} [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111101172005/hitlerparody/images/thumb/b/bd/TraudlTooMuch.jpg/497px-TraudlTooMuch.jpg look] [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111023022547/hitlerparody/images/thumb/4/4b/Thshot0036.jpg/663px-Thshot0036.jpg into]{{Dead link}} [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111023022617/hitlerparody/images/thumb/c/c3/Downfall-1.jpg/663px-Downfall-1.jpg them.]{{Dead link}}
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* [[Battle Butler]]: By the definition of being an adjutant, i.e. a soldier servant to a superior officer, in his case to Hitler.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Generally friendly and helpful, especially to Traudl and Gerda.
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Among those who stay with Hitler till the end. Near the end he joins in the Mohnke's group of survivors, and when the group votes for what to do Günsche is among those who vote for dying before dishonor. Yet when the surrender is declared he declines from committing suicide.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: A Nazi... and quite polite.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Stays in the bunker until everyone else have left.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Boozing Burgdorf", and less commonly "Fast-Talkin' Boozin' Burgdorf"
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* [[With Due Respect]]: During his most famous [[Villainous Breakdown]] Hitler accuses the army for his loss, calling them cowards and traitors. Burgdorf stands up to the furious Führer, declaring this to be outrageous and that he cannot accept Hitler insulting the soldiers. No other character dares to speak to Hitler in such manner.
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* [[Bald of Evil]]: Bald and a Nazi. Not eviler than the rest, though.
* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]: Averted. He offers reasonable counter arguments against Hitler's ludicrously delusional orders. Hitler is not amused.
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]:
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Despite arguing with Hitler, he refuses to consider abandoning him.
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* [[Bald of Awesome]]
* [[Herr Doktor]]
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* [[The Medic]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]
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* [[Punch Clock Villain]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Considers being put into the lead of the defense of Berlin to be this.
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* [[You Are in Command Now]]: He’s not happy about it.
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* [[Badass Baritone]]: Perhaps not quite baritone, but distinctively soft and pleasant anyway.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Bonkers" - Due to the difficulty English-speaking viewers sometimes have in pronouncing his name, many fansubs have taken to calling him "General Bonkers", because "Mohnke" sounds somewhat close to this. The in-universe fan-joke is that Hitler is the kind of annoying boss who invents demeaning pet names for his subordinates, but Mohnke is too afraid of Hitler to correct him. Other joke fansubs straight-up say that "Bonkers" is his actual name.
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* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Played with. During the movie he plays the role of a [[Only Sane Man]] who's concerned about saving lives from the [[Senseless Sacrifice]] that the Battle for Berlin is. Near the end he leads a group of survivors, who argue about what to do. A vote is called, and Mohnke votes for dying. Yet when the surrender is announced, he doesn't commit suicide.
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▲== Peter Kranz (Donevan Gunia) ==
* [[Action Survivor]]
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Is ashamed of his WWI veteran father, who tries to order him and his [[Child Soldiers|Nazi Youth friends]] to give up fighting, as their cause is lost, and more importantly they’re just kids and can’t do any real good in a battle.
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* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: Bicycling into the blooming springtime countryside with Traudl.
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* [[Fat Bastard]]
* [[Screw This,
* [[The Voiceless]]: Despite being one of the most prominent Nazi officials, he doesn't get a single word.
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