Hitler Phone Scene

The Hitler Phone Scene is one of the many scenes used in Hitler Parodies.

Scene in Downfall
The scene begins with Hitler asking where the cannon fire is coming from. Burgdorf wishes him a happy birthday, and tells that the city center of Berlin is under fire, and discusses how the grenades hit the Reichstag, but Hitler wants to know where they came from. Burgdorf admits that he doesn't know, but he has Koller on the phone. Hitler gets the phone, and asks him if he knows where the artillery is coming from, which he doesn't know. Koller later goes on to say that he's in Wildpark Werder, Hitler tells him that the Soviets captured the railway bridge over the Oder. However, there wasn't one.

Koller later explains the artillery isn't long range, and the shells's calibre are only 10 and 12 cm, so the enemy is closer, and have positions near Marzahn. A suburb that's (as Hitler notes angry) only 12 km from the city center, then rants on how they should hang the entire Luftwaffe leadership, then hangs up.

The scene ends with Hitler explaining what happened, then leaves, with Krebs admitting that's it's possibly long range artillery after all. However, Hitler responds with, "Ach unsinn!".

In Parodies
This scene is frequently used by parody makers as a means of providing bizarre crossovers with other films and providing Hitler with a means of interacting with people outside of the movie Downfall. In order to do this, a lot of Untergangers edit out the scenes with Koller and replace them with a piece of footage, a music video, a clip from a movie, or something else. The result is that Hitler calls (or in some cases gets phoned by) all kinds of strange people, such as Lady Gaga, Santa Claus, Elmo, Barney, Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black, Anton Chigurh, Brian Cowen, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, King Leonidas, the Angry German Kid, Patrick the Starfish and Inglorious Basterds Hitler.

However, on quite a few occasions, the scenes with Koller are kept in, such as in Hitler Phones and ISP Center.

Trivia

 * Koller is the most edited-out person from this scene. In addition, Hitler's adressee of "Koller" is nearly always replaced with "Hello" in the first line of the phone dialogue.
 * Other than Hitler and Koller, Burgdorf, Krebs and Bormann appear in the scene, but with a minor role. Bormann doesn't have any dialogue at all.


 * Unlike the movie, where Hitler asks where the artillery fire is coming from, the parodies usually show him asking either who's on the phone or if they've managed to call a specific individual.
 * This is the earliest scene from the movie used for parody making, occurring a few minutes into the movie (Apr. 20, 1945 in the timeline).
 * The line, "Ach, unsinn!", known better as "Piss off!", is spoken by Hitler in this scene anytime it ends; unless it was skipped or edited out.