Hitler Suicide Scene

The Hitler Suicide Scene is a major scene in Downfall. Its grose nature means that it is extremely rarely used in Downfall parodies.

In Downfall
The scene begins with Traudl eating with the Goebbels children. Whilst they discuss living in the bunker, in the conference room, Goebbels, Bormann, Burgdorf, Krebs and others sit around in silence, seemingly waiting for something to happen. A gunshot can he heard seconds later, whcih Traudl reacts to suddenly.

In the conference room, Burgdorf stands and heads slowly towards the door, whilst Heinz Linge heads to the Führer's office and, after slowly opening the door and peeking inside, tells Günsche that "it has happened". Günsche then heads inside Hitler's lounge room (which is not visible in this scene), inspects the bodies, then heads back outside and into the conference room, where he announces that the Führer is dead. The generals and Goebbels then bow their heads.

Meanwhile, back in the telemarketing room, the men start lighting cigarettes and smoking, an action which was prohibited in the Führer's presence. Back in the kitchen, Helga Goebbels opens the door and sees his father and Krebs overseeing the removal of the bodies, and says: "There's Papa". Traudl then watches the events outside, and quickly slams the door.

The bodies are removed from the lounge room, and taken upstairs. The corpses of Braun (who committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill) and Hitler (who died by a gunshot to the head) are then placed outside the bunker's entrance and doused with petrol. After narrowly avoiding a artillery bomb, the generals then burn the corpses. Back in the bunker, a worried Traudl drinks a cup of water and slowly walks to the lounge room, where she sees what happened when Hitler and Braun committed suicide. Traces of blood can be seen where Hitler was supposedly sitting and Braun's handbag is also seen. She then runs away.