Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
by Othmar Schmiderer, Andr? Heller
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Actor: Traudl JungeDirector: Andr? Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
DVD Review: NOT the first extensive Traudl Junge DVD interview!
Summary: 4 Stars
The reviewer from the New Yorker said, "After the war, she kept herself and her story out of sight until two Austrian filmmakers, Andr? Heller and Othmar Schmiderer, interviewed her two years ago, shortly before her death."
Wrong.
A much younger Traudl Junge, along with Albert Speer (a few years after finishing his 20-year N?rnberg sentence) and other F?hrerbunker survivors spoke extensively on camera throughout "The World at War," often speaking excellent English. "TWAW" also shows original German and allied film of events described and depicted in "Blind Spot," the outstanding "Downfall," and related films.
I do not understand how any professional reviewer, especially for the New Yorker, could presume to discuss this DVD without being familiar with "TWAW" and other historic documentary works. These, along with Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," writings of Churchill and Speer and other contemporaries at the focus of events, are just a few items which any decent scholarship should include among even rudimentary homework for reviewing "Blind Spot" authoritatively.
Instead, the New Yorker subjected us to the bungled effects of their own collossal blind spot.
DVD Review: A Must See for "Why" of following Hitlet. One Perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
I admire Traudl Junge for her honesty. I could see myself doing just as she, in the isolated world she inhabited. In my view, she cannot be held accountable for all the evils of the time. Having been a secretary myself, I guess I could relate to her experience. I worked in a research facility as a secretary; I didn't know what each individual lab was doing in that building. Also consider that she didn't have a father and had a hole in her heart; she was therefore easily led by her need. She took the job to better herself, not even realizing that the typing test was for a personal secretary to Hitler. She wanted out of the mailroom. She wanted more money in her paycheck as we all do. This isn't excusing the whole terror of the time, but in this woman's everyday life she was like a hamster in a wheel.DVD Review: Was That Bunk or Bunker?
Summary: 2 Stars
That some may find this fascinating, I don't doubt. Perhaps many would find this a fascinating insider's view of those final days in the bunker with you-know-who. I understand well, because I ordered this film believing much the same. Actually, I got bored very quickly. I think I heard "we didn't know" about 500 times in the first 20 minutes and decided not to waste my time listening to the rest, which no doubt is fantastic. I was struck by the prosperity in evidence in the apartment and found myself wondering what she's been doing these 50 years give or take. Clearly, she comes from a good middle-class family. She had wanted to dance, was related to Hitler's right-hand man Bormann who got her the job, lived a comfortable existence unaffected by the world around her, blah, blah, blah. Why should a lady such as this trouble herself with fate of other people? This is a fair question. 50 years later, the lady doesn't have the answer. She gets a job in a concrete bunker at the peak of WWII, types death orders, and wonders how she could have missed the larger implications of what was happening. "Blind Spot" has its archival value, but the woman is as dull now as she was blind then. DVD Review: Misleading Description, She WAS Interviewed In The 1970's.
Summary: 3 Stars
Just to set the record straight and I'm sure many of you know this, she was interviewed first by the BBC/Thames for the documentary "The World At War" which was made around 1974! I just wanted to point that out since the description says she was quiet until just a couple of years ago which would make it around 2003, thats inaccurate. I think once you have seen her in The World At War interview and seen the movie Downfall, we know where she is coming from. I would not waste my time on seeing anymore of this Hitler admirer. Her descriptions of Hitler in the bunker are totally different then Speer's account in his autobiography, I am sure Adolf could be different things to different people and I think the person Speer's recounts was the real Hitler. DVD Review: Blind Spot
Summary: 5 Stars
With so many excellent films concerning Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, few have transfixed me as much as "Blind Spot." This feature needs no graphic wartime footage to deliver its impact. Instead, the camera stays focused on Ms. Junge, who, in her early twenties as the war raged, was completely naive in her political outlook (or so she claims). This film is made more poignant in that Ms. Junge died shortly after production was completed, giving us the feeling that in these interviews, she is working to expiate a lifetime of guilt, one born of ignorance, or perhaps more accurately, a suppression of horrific reality. This makes a perfect double feature with the outstanding narrative film "Downfall", in which her character is featured prominently.
Description of Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
An interview with Traudl Junge, one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries from 1942 through the collapse of the Nazi regime, in which she tells it all. 2003 National Theatrical Release.German DVDs
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