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Yeah, I disagree with the notion of the 'less-than-impressive battle scenes'. The focus was really on Hitler and the immediate people that surrounded him, not Berlin. However, the battle scenes that were in the film were more than adequate for their small screen time and I thought they were well done. And this is coming from someone who loved BHD.
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Within the context of the film, they were OK, but they do not in any way convey the scale of the actual battle that was raging in the city. Over
2 million soldiers and
thousands of tanks were involved in the street fighting, with over
500,000 casualties. From watching the scenes in
Downfall, one might have the impression that only small pockets of troops were sporadically engaged. This was an enormous and bloody struggle.
It was like one of those History Channel specials where they hire 8 re-enactors and show close-ups of them from a bunch of different angles to represent some huge battle.
