Over the course of more than a decade, the documentary film-maker Luke Holland collected interviews with surviving witnesses and participants of Hitler’s Third Reich. The result is an exhaustive study that was completed shortly before Holland’s death last year.
In some ways, Final Account draws a line under a period of history that has been explored extensively before. But it also hints, in several chilling segments, at how pervasive some of the ideas that formed the core of Nazi ideology remain, even now. This is not, the film argues, the time for complacency.