Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies

Between 2008 and 2017, the British documentary filmmaker Luke Holland conducted 265 video interviews with men and women born between 1905 and 1934. The interviewees were primarily German and Austrian, but also included individuals from other countries. The focus was on their memories of National Socialism, the Holocaust and the Second World War, as well as their involvement in these events. The interviewees included former members of the SS and the Wehrmacht, secretaries and employees of Nazi organisations and the military, as well as farm workers and housewives. Their recollections provide insight into their reflections on responsibility, complicity and guilt.

These interviews are available via the VWI Archive as part of a cooperation with University College London, the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, the Pears Foundation and Luke Holland’s ZEF Productions.