Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
(André Heller & Othmar Schmiderer / 2002 / Germany (subtitles) 87 mins / PG) (Tues 27th-Wed 28th / 8pm / £4/3/2)

An extradionary historical document that features interviews with 81 year old Traudi Junge who worked as Hitler's private secretary from 1942 until his suicide. It renounces all stylistic embellishments and focuses solely on Junge's talking head in unbroken recounts of her experiences. In his final hours, Hitler dictated his last will and testament to Junge, as the Third Reich collapsed above them. While taking dictation on Hitler's "final political statement", she only then began to realize for the first time the extent of his madness.
There is alot of drama in Junge's story but what is more compelling is how she grapples with the consequences of her history. The subject is as much Junge in the present, as what she witnessed during the early 1940s. Blind Spot is a chilling reminder of Hitler's advance, not only by heinous acts of evil people, but also by the ignorance of good ones.