In the historical film The Destruction of the Reich, Hitler, the fuehrer of Nazi Germany, commented for a long time on a portrait hanging inside the bunker at the last moments of his life. The film "The Destruction of the Empire" can be said to be a single shot that is superfluous, and the portrait that Hitler looks at is no exception. So who was the portrait that Hitler was looking at?
According to the footage taken by the camera, it can be seen that the portrait of Hitler is the famous Prussian king in German history, frederick II (Frederick the Great). Frederick II, the third king of the Hohenzollern dynasty of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786), was a military, politician, writer and musician.
During the reign of Frederick II, Prussia developed rapidly and became one of the leading european powers, laying the foundation for Prussia to become the core of German unification. Frederick II is still regarded by Germans as one of the greatest monarchs in German history, and the Nazi Party compared Hitler to Frederick II, Bismarck and Hindenburg in the elections that year.
More importantly, Frederick II fought in the Seven Years' War against the entire European continent, including France, Austria, Russia, and Spain, which was also very similar to Hitler's situation. The difference was that Frederick II relied on the "Miracle of the Brandenburg Gate" by the Russian Tsar Peter III to bring Prussia back from the brink of subjugation.
For this reason, Hitler looked at frederick II's portrait on the one hand in the hope that he would achieve the same "great feats" as Frederick II, and on the other hand, hoped that Frederick II's "Brandenburg Gate Miracle" would be staged again and that Nazi Germany would be saved from extinction. But the Nazi version of the "Brandenburg Gate Miracle" did not appear in the end.