History Characters / Downfall

[[caption-width-right:297:''One and one is two! Two and two is four! I feel so bad 'cause I'm losing the war!'']]

* BadassGrandpa

* VillainousCheekbones: To the point where he is sometimes called [[HeMan Skeletor]].

Head of the ''Oberkommando der Wehrmacht'' (effectively making him the war minister) and one of Hitler's most prominent yes-men. He signed the both documents that accepted France's surrender and Germany's surrender. Despite being the third in the German chain-of-command (behind Hitler and Göring), Keitel's job eventually devolved into applying his signatures to various papers, including a decree that condemned millions of Russian prisoners and civilians to brutality by their German captors. After being ordered to regroup with Admiral Dönitz, Keitel began to grovel before him just as he did before Hitler. He was hanged on October 16, 1946 (like a criminal), after being denied by the Allies a request to be shot by firing squad (like a soldier).

[[folder:Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mathias Gnädinger

One of the lesser characters in the movie despite being Hitler's NumberTwo, having been the founder of the Gestapo, the Nazi SecretPolice, and leader of the Luftwaffe (air force). His relationship with Hitler, however, started to sour due to incompetence in the battlefield, and was subsequently fired when he sent a telegram to Hitler asking him to bless him as his successor upon learning of his impending suicide. He was subsequently captured by the victorious Allies and found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but chose to bite a cyanide pill before he faced the gallows on October 15, 1946.

* DemotedToExtra[=/=]TheVoiceless: In the movie. Despite being one of the most prominent Nazi officials, he doesn't get a single word.
* FatBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In his only scene, he is calmly checking his watch.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Or for a career. Interestingly both he and Magda arranged themselves into a political marriage to get closer to Hitler. Only Magda did it [[MyCountryRightOrWrong out of passionate loyalty]], while Fegelein simply climbs the ladders of the party that happens to in power.

* KnightTemplar

* SubordinateExcuse: She seems much more emotionally invested in Hitler than her husband. It’s TruthInTelevision, too.

* VillainousCheekbones

Chief Adjutant of the Wermacht Heer during the closing days of WorldWarII. As a veteran of WorldWarI, Burgdorf was passionate about preventing a repeat of Germany's humiliation after that war, and thus sworn fealty to Hitler, including having to facilitate the suicide of WorldWarI hero [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel Erwin Rommel]] as an alternative to facing court-martial for an assassination attempt on Hitler. At the war's end he and Krebs handled Fegelein's court-martial, and both also committed suicide on May 2, 1945.

* AteHisGun: Though we never saw it happen.

* BerserkButton: Disobeying him in any way.
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Speer admits deliberately disobeying and even contradicting orders ''to Hitler's face.'' Hitler is shaken, but simply lets him leave.]]

* {{Single Tear}}

Hitler's most loyal supporter and head of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, largely responsible for Nazi Germany's antisemitic activity. After Hitler's suicide, Goebbels was appointed Chancellor, only to commit suicide the next day with his wife Magda after poisoning their six children.

An architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production, and a friend of Hitler, responsible for bringing to form many of his most ambitious infrastructural projects. Unlike Hitler, however, Speer at least believes that Germany should have a future even if defeated, begging him to spare their nation his suicidal ravings. After Hitler's death Speer served his twenty-year jail term before traveling the world writing memoirs about his life with Hitler until he died in September 1, 1981.

* DefectorFromDecadence: While he considers himself to remain Hitler’s true friend, he admits to him disobeying his orders because he found them lunatic and inhuman.

[[folder:Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mathias Gnädinger

One of the lesser characters in the movie despite being Hitler's NumberTwo, having been the founder of the Gestapo, the Nazi SecretPolice, and leader of the Luftwaffe (air force). His relationship with Hitler, however, started to sour due to incompetence in the battlefield, and was subsequently fired when he sent a telegram to Hitler asking him to bless him as his successor upon learning of his impending suicide. He was subsequently captured by the victorious Allies and found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but chose to bite a cyanide pill before he faced the gallows on October 15, 1946.

* DemotedToExtra[=/=]TheVoiceless: In the movie. Despite being one of the most prominent Nazi officials, he doesn't get a single word.
* FatBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In his only scene, he is calmly checking his watch.

* TheVoiceless: Despite being one of the most prominent Nazi officials, he doesn't get a single word.

* AntiVillain: Mostly [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I]]. Arguably [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type II]].

* AntiVillain: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains 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.

* NietzscheWannabe

*WrongGenreSavvy: He believes in HeroicSpirit.

[[folder:Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring]]
->'''Portrayed by:''' Mathias Gnädinger

One of the lesser characters in the movie despite being Hitler's NumberTwo, having been the founder of the Gestapo, the Nazi SecretPolice, and leader of the Luftwaffe (air force). His relationship with Hitler, however, started to sour due to incompetence in the battlefield, and was subsequently fired when he sent a telegram to Hitler asking him to bless him as his successor upon learning of his impending suicide. He was subsequently captured by the victorious Allies and found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but chose to bite a cyanide pill before he faced the gallows on October 15, 1946.
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* FatBastard
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In his only scene, he is calmly checking his watch.
* TheVoiceless: Despite being one of the most prominent Nazi officials, he doesn't get a single word.
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This is the character sheet for the German WW2 movie ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. The movie has become famous in the internetland for the long living [[WebVideo/HitlerRants YouTube Meme]] (which now has [[Characters/HitlerRants its own character page]]) it has given birth to. Tropes listed here are related to the original movie only.

!''Downfall''

[[folder:Hitler’s inner circle]]

!!AdolfHitler

The principal character of the movie, Austrian-born Hitler rose to power in his adopted Germany as Führer in 1933 with a promise to bring Germany back to [[YeGoodeOldeDays its glory days]] when it ruled much of the world. As of the movie's span, however, Hitler has become a shrunken, near-defeated shell of a man who would ultimately put a bullet through his skull on April 30, 1945.

!!Eva Braun

!!Joseph Goebbels

!!Magda Goebbels

!!The Goebbels Children

!!Albert Speer

!!Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

!!Hermann Fegelein

[[folder: The bunker staff]]
!!Traudl Junge

!!Otto Günsche

!!General der Infanterie Hans Krebs

!!General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf

!!Generaloberst Alfred Jodl

[[folder: Battle for Berlin]]
!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst-G%C3%BCnther_Schenck Standartenführer Ernst-Günther Schenck]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_Weidling General Helmuth Weidling]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Mohnke SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke]]

!!Peter Kranz

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring]]

!![[Otto Günsche]]

!![[General der Infanterie Hans Krebs]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Burgdorf General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jodl Generaloberst Alfred Jodl]]

This is the character sheet for the German WW2 movie ''Film/{{Downfall}}''. The movie has become famous in the internetland for the long living [[WebVideo/HitlerRants YouTube Meme]] (which now has [[Characters/HitlerRants its own character page]]) it has given birth to. Tropes listed here are related to the original movie.

!![[Eva Braun]]

!![[Joseph Goebbels]]

!![[Magda Goebbels]]

->'''Portrayed by:''' Aline Sokar, Amelie Menges, Amelie Menges, Gregory Borlein, Laura Borlein, Julia Bauer

* KickTheDog: They’re the dog that gets kicked.

!![[Albert Speer]]

!![[Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler]]

!![[Hermann Fegelein]]

!![[Traudl Junge]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traudl_Junge Traudl Junge]]

* NaiveEverygirl
* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_G%C3%BCnsche SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche]]

!![[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Krebs_%28Wehrmacht_general%29 General der Infanterie Hans Krebs]]

Infantry general of the Wermacht Heer (Army) and Chief of the Army General Staff. Krebs was pretty much Hitler's military arm during the last days of Nazi Germany, ordering around officers on the front lines to fight till the very end, and subsequently presided Fegelein's court-martial. After Hitler's suicide, he and Burgdorf stayed behind and together committed suicide on May 2, 1945.