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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Junge's testimony is a salutary reminder that Hitler was like other people in ways, and that the evil he manifested could visit us again if more civilized humans don't remain watchful.
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What are critics saying?
80
Junge's testimony about the last days in Hitler's bunker will fascinate the layperson, but it adds little to what is already known by historians.
80
Dallas Observer by Gregory Weinkauf
If Junge's first-hand recollections aren't always visually stimulating, they're still more illuminating than most cinematic re-creations of the era.
70
That unexpected rage is the movie's most powerful emotional truth.
75
Not a very visually interesting documentary its simply one head talking to the audience, with no film clips, photographs or other diversions. But its awfully hard to turn away.
78
Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten
Most important, Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary makes us wonder, in a very human sense, about the various blinders we all adopt to make our peace with life.
75
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
The movie, in the end, is devastating because of the banality it reveals, and because its terseness and plainness cut a mass killer down to size.
75
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Just one talking head, that's all. But the head in this mesmerizing documentary belongs to Traudl Junge.
80
Riveting testimonial.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
This bracing portrait of a woman who painfully accepts her responsibility as a citizen is a revelation.