FINAL ACCOUNT: Testimony of The Last Generation- Nazi Children of The Third Reich & Holocaust, Film

[appalachiablue]

- Trailer. Everyone knew, but no one said anything. FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Hitler’s Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity & perpetration, national identity, & responsibility, as men & women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with- in very different ways- their memories, perceptions & personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.
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- The Guardian, ‘It became crystal clear they were lying’: the man who made Germans admit complicity in the Holocaust. Dec. 2, 2021.

With Final Account, the late director Luke Holland set out to obtain testimonies from those who participated in the Nazi atrocities – before their voices were lost. The result is a powerful mix of shame, denial & ghastly pride..
When Holland embarked on the project in 2008, he wrote a mission statement in the form of a semi-haiku:
“My grandparents were murdered / I want to shoot old Nazis / I am a film-maker.” His Jewish mother had fled Austria for England just before the German annexation in 1938; her parents had not.

Holland had previously explored the period in his films Good Morning Mr Hitler! & I Was a Slave Labourer. Now he wanted to build an archive of interviews with perpetrators, coaxing often reluctant men & women in their 80s & 90s into unearthing uncomfortable memories. “The main driver was: ‘If we don’t get these voices now, soon we won’t have the opportunity to do so,’” says Sam Pope, an associate producer of Final Acccount...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/02/it-became-crystal-clear-they-were-lying-the-man-who-made-germans-admit-complicity-in-the-holocaust

[cilla4progress]

1. I started watching the documentary

Four Seasons Lodge about survivors of the camps.

Nothing harder....

This one sounds relevant, too.

[teach1st]

2. I'm in the middle of this well-done and compelling documentary

It's hard for me to watch...I have to do twenty-minute installments. I keep relating the initial horrors (Kristallnacht, for example) to what's currently going on with the Trumpian goon squad.

[luckone]

3. its on netflix

IMO there are hordes of people who will get like this in the US when/if it comes down to it
I just cant watch it now but its on my netflix list
someday maybe during a more reassuring time