Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
by Othmar Schmiderer, Andr? Heller
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Actor: Traudl JungeDirector: Andr? Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Othmar Schmiderer
Writer: Othmar Schmiderer
Writer: Andr? Heller
Editor: Daniel Poehacker
Producer: Danny Krausz
Producer: Kurt Stocker
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 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: I'm a military history buff and so I might find this film more interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
than most.
The value I found in this film, and I agree with some who say it was poorly shot and edited, was the reflections of an 81 yo woman who knew she was dying of cancer and died days after the interview. This is as good as a death bed confession.
What interests me is this . . . Traudl Junge seems a good example (or might be a good example) of the common folk of Germany, who, like many or most Germans were moved sufficiently by his oratorical skills to at least trust him, and overlook any obvious indications that atrocities were happening during the war. Nor did she feel a need to find/discover what information there was regarding the horrible events. We now know that with a bit of effort most any German of the time could find out the awful truth. Soldiers came back on leave, Jews, the mentally handicapped, and others were roughly loaded on into train cars made for cattle or horses, and the stink from the incinerators was easily detected from surrounding towns.
I found it fascinating to listen to this woman who knew she would die soon, describe her confusion and her moral turmoil during the past decades. The question arises in the viewers mind and hers . . . how could she not have known. That is my fascination. Almost a whole population seems to have been in a similar state. Sophie Scholl knew, as did her brother . . . both who participated in the White Rose resistance movement (non-violent). If them, then why not others, many others who could have known more if the had the inclination and interest to find the truth.
In all, a disturbing revelation into the psychology of those German's raised or living during the 1930's to the end of the war.
This film left me feeling strangely depressed and with an odd sense of dread. Also, I must admit feeling some anger at this old lady for being . . . what . . . blind, naive, gullible, stupid, dense? And yet I feel sorry for her. It was only late in life that she finally had the epiphany that, yes, she could have known. I have to say it . . . how pathetic.
DVD Review: Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary
Summary: 4 Stars
It seems to always be refreshing to hear History from one who lived it. Blind Spot accomplishes the refreshing.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.
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.Germany DVDs
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