Adolf Hitler — Downfall Character Profile

Adolf Hitler — Character Profile

Affiliations

• Nazi Party
• German Workers' Party
• Nazi Germany
• German Empire

Quick Facts about Adolf Hitler

Education

Lambach Abbey, Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße

Occupation

politician, Holocaust perpetrator

Eye Color

Blue

Hair Color

Brown hair

Manner of Death

Suicide

Adolf Hitler's Known Relations

• Eva Braun — Spouse
• Klara Hitler — Mother
• Heinz Hitler — Relative
• Leo Rudolf Raubal — Relative
• Bridget Dowling — Relative
• William Patrick Hitler — Relative
• Gretl Braun — Relative
• Martin Heinrich Hammitzsch — Relative
• Maria Schicklgruber — Relative
• Franziska Braun — Relative
• Ilse Braun — Relative
• Johanna Hiedler — Relative
• Therese Schmidt — Relative
• Anton Schmidt — Relative
• Elfriede Hochegger — Relative
• Johann Schmidt junior — Relative
• Johann Schmidt — Relative
• Maria Koppensteiner — Relative
• Johanna Pölzl — Relative
• Eduard Schmidt — Relative
• Adolf Koppensteiner — Relative
• Aloisia Veit — Relative
• Viktoria Veit — Relative
• Josepha Schicklgruber — Relative
• Josef Veit — Relative
• Josefa Veit — Relative
• Johann Schicklgruber — Relative
• Theresia Pfeisinger — Relative
• Martin Hiedler — Relative
• Anna Maria Göschl — Relative
• Johann Baptist Pölzl — Relative
• Peter Raubal — Relative
• Heiner Hochegger — Relative
• Hedwig Mickley — Relative
• Friedrich Otto Wilhelm Braun — Relative
• Alois Hitler, Jr. — Sibling
• Angela Hitler — Sibling
• Paula Hitler — Sibling
• Gustav Hitler — Sibling
• Ida Hitler — Sibling
• Otto Hitler — Sibling
• Edmund Hitler — Sibling
• Alois Hitler — Father
• Joseph Stalin — Business partner
• Maria Reiter — Unmarried partner
• Eva Braun — Unmarried partner
• Geli Raubal — Unmarried partner
• Nazi Germany — Allegiance
• German Empire — Allegiance
• Joseph Stalin — Significant person
• Benito Mussolini — Significant person
• Albert Speer — Significant person
• Eva Braun — Significant person

Adolf Hitler appears in 8 titles

• Cross of Iron (1977) — character page
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) — character page
• Downfall (2004)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) — character page
• Kung Fury (2015) — character page
• Look Who's Back (2015) — character page
• Jojo Rabbit (2019) — character page
• Kung Fury 2 (2026) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Bruno Ganz

Appears in

Downfall (2004)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (5)

• Adolf Hitler — related — Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes)
• Adolf Hitler — Professional Secretary — Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)

  Hitler employs Junge as his personal secretary, relying on her for administrative tasks and final document dictation.

• Adolf Hitler — Romantic Wife — Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler)

  Hitler and Braun enter a formal marriage during the final days and share a joint suicide.

• Adolf Hitler — Professional Minister — Albert Speer (Heino Ferch)

  Speer serves as Hitler's armaments minister, reporting directly to him on infrastructure and war production.

• Adolf Hitler — Professional Propaganda Minister — Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes)

  Goebbels holds the official title of Propaganda Minister and operates within Hitler's inner cabinet.

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More characters from Downfall

• Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)
• Magda Goebbels (Corinna Harfouch)
• Joseph Goebbels (Ulrich Matthes)
• General der Infanterie Hans Krebs (Rolf Kanies)
• Eva Braun (Juliane Köhler)
• Albert Speer (Heino Ferch)
• SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke (André Hennicke)
• General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling (Michael Mendl)
• Prof. Dr. Werner Haase (Matthias Habich)
• General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf (Justus von Dohnányi)
• Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck (Christian Berkel)
• Martin Bormann (Thomas Thieme)