Summary: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 SSFinal 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. …Expand
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ― Primo Levi
This film brilliantly documents very dangerous common people.
Dictators and fascist leaders are really nothing without followers. In a situation like the holocaust and Nazi Germany the most simplistic explanation would be to call everyone involved evil, but it's more horrifying to understand that in many cases it happens because people are stupid andDictators and fascist leaders are really nothing without followers. In a situation like the holocaust and Nazi Germany the most simplistic explanation would be to call everyone involved evil, but it's more horrifying to understand that in many cases it happens because people are stupid and indifferent.
There was a book burning in Tennessee, USA a couple of days ago by a pseudo pastor who's just looking for attention and to keep taking money from people. But you know what? He's not the biggest problem. The problem is all the people who were there following his directions and throwing books into the flames.
Final Account may not go as deep as I would've liked, but it reminds people how dangerous the enablers are.…Expand