Günsche scouts the Soviets
Günsche cannot unsee.
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Gunsche scouts the Soviets is a scene in Downfall that is rarely used in parodies.
In Downfall [ ]
Otto Günsche is seen by a window on an upper level of the building where the party is camped in, scouting for the Soviets over the smoke-filled horizon through his binoculars.
On the ground, German combatants are already destroying their weapons. Günsche scopes again, acquiring sight of the Soviets and sees the German soldiers throwing their weapons on the ground and offering no resistance. He immediately runs through a narrow corridor of the building and reports to Mohnke of the situation.
Mohnke estimates the Soviets will reach their location in about an hour, and poses to his men on a course of action. Stehr proposes they use their remaining bullets. Ernst-Günther Schenck points out its futility, but Stehr stresses that the SS cannot outlive the Führer . When asked, most of the men, including Walther Hewel raises their hands in agreement to the plan, leaving Schenck shaking his head.
In the Parodies [ ]
This scene is rarely used in parodies on its own. However, the part where Günsche uses his binoculars and runs through the narrow corridor is used in many feature-length parodies, such as The Enemy Within and Hitler and the Last Witch .
Meanwhile, the part where Mohnke, Stehr, and Schenck have a brief debate (followed by Hewel and the other SS officers raising their hands) have been recently used in parodies such as the third episode of Hitler Sends Göring to Africa 's third season, and the seventh part of Grand Master of the Antic Order .
Scenes in Downfall's timeline
Prologue
Hitler's Secretarial Interview
Battle Scenes (first part - bombing)
Traudl, Gerda and Constanze wake up to artillery fire
Hitler Phone Scene
Eva and Traudl discuss in the kitchen ext [ext]
Fegelein and Himmler at Hitler's birthday
Schenck and the burning of documents
Himmler greets Hitler (aka Hitler Wants Himmler Scene)
Himmler and Fegelein at the garage (garage )
Hitler walks around the model of Berlin (Germania )
Hitler Youth Artillery Scene
Hitler Planning Scene diff [diff]
Hitler's Generals Discussing Scene
Hitler congratulates the Hitler Youth
Traudl, Gerda and Constanze talk in bed
Schenck and Müller around a bonfire
Party Scene (beginning)
Hitler and Speer chat on the couch
Party Scene
Battle Scenes (second part - Weidling)
Mohnke calls Schenck
Weidling goes to the Bunker
Schenck in the Hospital
Wilhelm and Dorothee Kranz arguing ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Singing Burgdorf Scene diff [diff]
Peter Kranz's street battle
Fegelein talking to Traudl and Gerda
Original Bunker Scene
After the Original Bunker Scene
Fegelein and Friends
Traudl and Gerda talking in bed
Eva walks Blondi
Hitler Laughing Scene (aka Hitler's Trollface) ext [ext]
Battle Scenes (third part - Mohnke)
Schenck and Müller in a truck
Schenck enters the shelter ext [ext]
Mohnke talks to Goebbels
Eva talking on the phone with Fegelein
Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children arrival noDl [noDl]
The Goebbels children sing to Hitler
Schenck and Haase operating ext [ext]
Hitler instructs how to commit suicide
Eva and Magda write their letters
Hitler stares at his favourite painting
Peter Kranz in the bomb shelter ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Battle Scenes (fourth part - Peter Kranz)
Hitler talks about the Battle of Berlin (aka Bunker Scene 2) ext [ext]
Peter Kranz hides in the artillery crater noDl [noDl]
Keitel, Krebs and others talk ext [ext]
Hitler talks to Keitel
Battle Scenes (fifth part - well)
Bormann informs Hitler
Speer and Traudl talk
Peter Kranz in the fog noDl [noDl]
Magda, Eva and Bormann talk to Speer
Speer's last conversation with Hitler
Peter returns home ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Traudl and the singing Goebbels children ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Hitler meets Greim and Reitsch
Hitler Eating Scene
Hitler Explains Scene
Traudl and Eva discuss Fegelein's flee ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Hitler, Grawitz and Günsche (Reviews / Informed / Pros and Cons )
Grawitz family's suicide
Högl enters the brothel noDl [noDl]
Fegelein's Arrest Scene
Eva wants Hitler to spare Fegelein
Weidling and Mohnke inform Hitler (Bunker Scene 3, pt1)
Generals discuss and Burgdorf gets angry (Bunker Scene 3, pt2)
Fegelein Execution Scene
Traudl is late to Hitler's dictation diff [diff] noDl [noDl]
Hitler will scene
Hitler wedding scene diff [diff]
Goebbels crying scene
Mohnke caught in the artillery fire noDl [noDl]
Mohnke talks to Hitler
Hitler and his generals receive telegram from Keitel (Bunker Scene 4, pt1)
Hitler instructs Günsche (Bunker Scene 4, pt2)
Haase, Flegel and Schenck meet Hitler
The doctors and the drunken people / Bunker Jokes
Soldiers deliver gasoline to the bunker
Blondi is killed
Traudl's last chat with Eva noDl [noDl]
Hitler's last supper
Traudl and Gerda smoke in the generator room ext [ext] noDl [noDl]
Hitler's Farewell Scene
Magda begs Hitler
Hitler Suicide Scene
Krebs and others walk through the streets of Berlin noDl [noDl]
Krebs meets General Chuikov diff [diff]
Goebbels Rants Scene
Magda drugs her children
Joseph Goebbels gives a last testament
Goebbels Children Murder Scene
Weidling announces Berlin's surrender diff [diff]
Krebs and Burgdorf's suicide
Joseph and Magda suicide
Mohnke convinces Schenck to evacuate ext [ext]
Berlin's breakthrough diff [diff]
Soviet women in the Bunker
German soldiers gathered in a plaza
Günsche scouts the Soviets noDl [noDl]
Traudl and Peter walk past the Soviets noDl [noDl]
Schenck's conversation with Stehr and Hewel diff [diff]
Traudl and Peter leave Berlin
Fates of surviving characters scene
Epilogue
ext Scenes only in extended edition, diff Scenes differ between theatrical and extended edition, noDl Scenes without known download link
List is part of the Grand Unified Downfall Scenes Database .