The Day Hitler Died (TV Movie 2016)

The Day Hitler Died: Directed by Craig Collinson. With Mark Strong, Michael A. Musmanno, Traudl Junge, Bernd von Loringhoven. Filmed interviews with the survivors of the Berlin Bunker in which Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family killed themselves in the final days of World War II. The interviews were made in 1948 by Captain Michael Musmanno, a US Navy Lawyer and Nuremberg Judge, and the film was offered to Hollywood, but the mood of the western world had changed and wanted to forget Hitler and the war and instead look to the future. The film remained in a US university archive until it was re-discovered in 2013.

“Is anyone else questioning how well the witnesses are speaking English? If the interviews were three years after the war, and these people spent months in jail, how is this possible? Junge was captured by the Russians and then the Americans…yet she seems to speak with a British accent.? Her descriptions and vocabulary are flawless. In later interviews, she only speaks in German…”