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Critic Tara Mcnamara
rated 10

As he creates a living document of people who lacked the courage to stand up to evil by deciding it was out of their control, Holland himself is a portrait of courage, perseverance, and self-control.

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Critic Xan Brooks
rated 8

...the results are damning; the testimonies chill the blood.

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Critic Wendy Ide
rated 6

...an exhaustive study that was completed shortly before Holland’s death last year.

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Critic Matthew Monagle
rated 7

Final Account is about today as much as yesterday, and that makes it perhaps the most urgent World War II documentary of them all.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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"Final Account" is a documentary film that sheds light on the last living generation of people who participated in Hitler's Third Reich. The film features never-before-seen interviews with former SS members, civilians, and other individuals who share their memories, perceptions, and personal appraisals of their roles in the Nazi war crimes. Through these interviews, the film raises questions about authority, conformity, complicity, perpetration, national identity, and responsibility. It also explores the level of indoctrination of the youth under the regime and the brainwashing of boys into being good Nazis and eager soldiers. The film is unique in that it shows the perspective of the Third Reich and the Holocaust through German eyes, providing a chilling insight into the minds of those who witnessed and participated in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in history.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Final Account include 20 Days In Mariupol, They Shall Not Grow Old, The Bloody Hundredth, Battle of Jutland: The Navy's Bloodiest Day, Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony, Of Fathers and Sons.

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Final Account was released in theaters on May 21, 2021.