Final Account

... First product of an ambitious undertaking to interview the now elderly [who were accepting] of the Nazi regime. ” Variety

Everyone knew, but no one said anything…

FINAL ACCOUNT is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

Rating
M
Duration
94 MINS

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