Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries

A collection of filmmaker Luke Holland's interviews with elderly Germans who witnessed--or participated in--the atrocities of the Holocaust. Conversations with Third Reich Contemporaries presents excerpts from filmed interviews conducted by British documentary filmmaker Luke Holland across a span of over a decade. These interviews were compiled into the German-language documentary film Final Account (2020), completed shortly before Holland's death. Most interviewees were young adults when the war ended; some had benefited from Nazism, and others had directly enacted persecution or state violence. In addition to making this vital interview collection more widely accessible, the sourcebook raises critical awareness of issues around representation, authenticity, memory, and the co-production of narratives, reshaping discussions around the role of "ordinary" citizens under the Third Reich. It is the first sourcebook to engage directly with issues of representation and identity after 1945.