| To portray them as cliched stereotyped monsters is the easy way out. As ever people are far more complex than that, and the real success in Downfall was to present believable Human beings; back to that old banal/evil combination they're far more interesting/chilling when presented in a realistic way.
I reckon they should have stuck with 'The Under-Gang' as the English title, it gives a stronger indication of the pack of not all exactly bright gangsters coming to the limits of their own schemes. The functioning brains presented in that bunker are resident with Goebbels & some of the military types, which seems reasonable to me.
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