if anybody really want to understand hitler and read wwi history not wwii history . find out what happen during that war and how soldier have to live around dead corps all the time . how so many soldier go insane and from what they saw during wwi and at the time they call it shellshocked now the call it post traumatic stress disorder . if you learn the true horror of wwi and you will begin to understand hitler . you will understand how a human be can become desensitized to death and not because their evil but simply because it be the only way for them too cope with the horror around them . this movie unfortunately miss that and a so many others do . read some book on the subject and you should watch the movie path of glory and the only good wwi movie ever make . you will see the frustration of the soldier in that movie and the sense of helplessness and and a utter devaluation of human life and a nothing more than bullet catcher . thats what this movie miss and it really the key point to understand germany . a lost war and where million and million of german lose their life and for no real reason . then come an utter economic collapse and follow the war . those be the factor that create extremism . the loss of family member and massive poverty will create always lead to extremism . unfortunately this movie ignore these factor and and have just become another throw away piece of crap to throw on the pile . with really no real value and there be fictional movie base upon fictional character that could give you a good idea of hitler than this do . they just throw hitler name on this so it would sell more .