Hopefully not so useful Japanese

I am extremely sleepy after staying up all night to watch Downfall (or "Hitler", as it is known in Japan). Tomoe and I started watching it a few nights ago, but the Japanese subtitles were flashing by a little too fast for me and it seems that I forgot all my high-school German sometime around 1995. The only way I would be able to follow this is to switch to the Japanese dubbed version, which Tomoe did not want to see - so I ended up spending over three hours last night, after she had gone to bed, watching it with my dictionary in one hand and the other hand on the "pause" button. Even the spoken Japanese was a little difficult to follow as they spoke quite fast and I lack the vocabulary that most people get from discussing war strategy and troop movements with Japanese friends and co-workers.