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Final Account chronicles thoughts of aging Nazis, Holocaust witnesses Margarete Schwarz in Klaus Kleinau in Photo courtesy of Focus Features The atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis before and during World War II are well-documented, but what has rarely been put on film are interviews with those who witnessed or perpetrated the crimes. The most famous example is the 1985 film Shoah, a 9+ hour documentary by Claude Lanzmann that told the story of the Holocaust directly from the mouths of survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators. The new documentary Final Account treads simi...

| Last updated  6:12 PM, May 21 2021 GMT+1 Over three quarters of a century after his fall at the climax of World War Two, Adolf Hitler is still considered as one of the most evil men to have ever lived. Apart from the many atrocities the Nazi leader committed, including the the mass-extermination of six million European Jews between 1941 and 1945, the image of him in many people's minds today is largely taken from footage of his public speaking. Having spoken at more than 5,000 rallies and other public events, Hitler would use these spectacles to whip up supporters in a frenzy in order to ...

‘Final Account’ Review: The Banality of Evil The filmmaker Luke Holland interviews a series of former Nazi functionaries in this unsettling study of complicity. In the documentary “Final Account,” Margarete Schwarz describes working  six years as a nanny for an SS family.Credit... Focus Features By Devika Girish May 20, 2021, 7:00 a.m. ET In “Final Account,” the filmmaker Luke Holland interviews a series of erstwhile Nazi functionaries: older men and women who seem to have spent a lifetime perfecting the use of the passive voice. Heinrich Schulze, a former Weh...

Documentary bears sometimes frustrating witness to the crimes of the Third Reich Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post May 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Margarete Schwarz in "Final Account."Focus Features In 2008, filmmaker Luke Holland started filming interviews with what would turn out to be hundreds of elderly Germans, described - perhaps euphemistically in some cases - as "witnesses" to the crimes of the Third Reich. Among those who appear on camera in "Final Account," Holland's last documentary before his death of cancer last year, are ordinary citizens; rank-and-file veterans of the ...

A Holocaust Documentary Interviews the Perpetrators Luke Holland’s film “Final Account” makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler’s Third Reich. COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES Margarete Schwarz worked for an SS family as a nanny for six years. What atrocities a human being is capable of and the psychic torments she might or might not suffer in consequence are, to a disturbing degree, social questions. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s disorienting 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing, a group of Indonesian gangsters reminisce in fond tones abou...