Normally, in documentaries about the death camps, we hear about the victims or their families, but in Luke Holland’s remarkable film Final Account, it’s the former Nazis who tell their stories.

Olland, who died shortly after completing his documentary, spent more than a decade hunting down the little people, the nobodies, the cogs in Hitler’s death machine

What is striking is how unrepentant or evasive some of them are. One woman, Margarette Schwarz, remembers having her teeth filled by inmates from Dachau, whom she qualifies with studied neutrality as “nice prisoners”. Another pensioner, Herman Knoth, explains how the SS were considered the pinnacle of Germanic manhood, “not just physically – spiritually too”.

More typical of the reactions encountered by Luke Holland, however, are those of Heinrich Schulze, a well-bred Saxon who grew up on a farm near the Bergen-Belsen camp. It takes Holland back to the family farm and shows a hayloft where a group of escaped prisoners once took refuge. They were starving, he recalls, and then the camp guards found them, which was “very sad”.

But when Holland questions him further, he admits that the Jewish inmates were arrested because he alerted the guards. And what happened to them, Holland then asks. “Oh,” said the old man, looking away evasively, “no one knows.”

final account, Wednesday, BBC4, 10 p.m.

movie of the week

Munich – The Edge of War,
netflix

Story-simplifiers like to present Neville Chamberlain as a minor villain, a Hitler appeaser, and a political weakling. But they do so in hindsight: in 1938, no one knew what kind of monster the Führer was, and Chamberlain was a sincere pacifist, part of the generation scarred by the horrors of the Great War, and determined not to repeat them. . .

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Played by Jeremy Irons, he was rewarded in this film, which co-stars George MacKay as Hugh Legat, a young civil servant who travels to Munich with the Prime Minister for a vital peace conference. There, Hugh meets an old friend from Oxford, who gives him some shocking news. With Jessica Brown Findlay, August Diehl.

TV highlights of the week

SATURDAY

GAA Beo
TG4, 2:45 p.m.
Dublin will face either Kildare or Laois in the O’Byrne Cup final this afternoon, and coverage of that will be followed by the McKenna Cup final. Micheál Ó Domhnaill presents.

Movie
American animals
RTE1, 11:45 p.m.
A group of bored middle-class students with rights decide to steal a priceless picture book from the University of Kentucky library, with unintended consequences. Barry Keoghan stars in Bart Layton’s factual drama.

Victim
BBC1, 9:30 p.m.
When Steve discovers that Faith has not slept with any of the men she has seen, she feels judged and proposes to a stranger in a bar.

SUNDAY

Dancing with the stars
RTÉ1, 6:30 p.m.
All the celebrities have happened, and the public will have formed opinions about who they like and don’t particularly care about. Let the eliminations begin! Jennifer Zamparelli presents.

Movie
The Eagle
Movie 4, 9 p.m.
A Roman centurion arrives in Britain determined to restore his father’s honor by retrieving the lost standard of his legion and sets out on a dangerous journey north of Hadrian’s Wall. Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell.

The tourist
BBC1, 9 p.m.
As The Man breaks through his past, Helen is traumatized by what she has seen and decides to turn to the police for help. But a lead from an unlikely source changes his approach. With Jamie Dornan.

MONDAY
The change makers
RTÉ1, 8:30 p.m.
This week we look at an innovative Greentown Project, a collaboration between the University of Limerick and the Department of Justice that aims to break the hold urban crime gangs have on children and families.

Movie
American gangsters
Sky Cinema Drama, 9:45 p.m.
Ridley Scott’s swaggering thriller tells the story of Frank Lucas, a Harlem mobster who saw a gap in the market in the early 1970s and began importing pure heroin from Vietnam. Starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe.

The Nilsen Files
BBC2, 9 p.m.
Michael Ogden reopens the case of London serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who in 1983 was convicted of murdering six young men and boys, and asks if homophobia helped Nilsen evade capture.

TUESDAY
style advisors
RTÉ1, 8:30 p.m.
Suzanne Jackson meets Dubliner Joanne McCann, a dance teacher and busy mother who wants to show up to her brother’s birthday party with a radical new look.

Movie
The wind that shakes the barley
Sky Cinema Drama, 11:30 p.m.
In Ken Loach’s drama set during the Irish War of Independence, a young medical student is drawn into the conflict and joins a flying column. With Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney.

Golden age
Atlantic Sky, 9 p.m.
Period drama set in 1880s New York starring Louisa Jacobson as Marian, a penniless young woman who enters the whirlwind of Manhattan society when she is sent to live with her aunts separated. With Carrie Coon, Christine Baranski.

WEDNESDAY
Jay Blades: Learning to read at 51
BBC1, 9 p.m.
TV presenter Jay Blades has always struggled with literacy and now decides to do something about it by embarking on a six-month reading course developed for use in prisons.

Movie
The young Victoria
Sky Cinema Drama, 8 p.m.
Shortly after her coronation, Queen Victoria is caught in a power struggle between her mother and a cohort of scheming politicians who want to micromanage her life. With Emily Blunt.

The man who saw too much
BBC4, 9 p.m.
Alan Yentob travels to Trieste to meet Boris Pahor, Slovenian novelist and the oldest living survivor of the Nazi death camps. Now 108 years old, he remembers his fight against fascism, and his life in the camps.

THURSDAY

The apprentice
BBC1, 9 p.m.
Fish is on the menu this week, as half of the contestants are sent to Cornwall and set sail with a trawler, while the rest stay in London to sell what is caught at a market stall. With Karen Brady.

Movie
season of the witch
Sky Movies Action, 9:20 p.m.
Macabre drama set in 13th century Austria, where two battle-weary crusaders are tasked with escorting a suspected witch to trial. With Nicolas Cage, Claire Foy.

Screw
Channel 4, 9 p.m.
Contraband that may have been smuggled in by a guard has created a spike in drug problems and violence in C-Wing, and Leigh decides to declare a weapons and narcotics amnesty.

FRIDAY
The Incredible Spaces of George Clarke
Channel 4, 8 p.m.
George watches with interest as a 21-year-old fitness fanatic attempts to convert a 1920s railway carriage into a fully equipped luxury sauna and gym.

Movie
a handful of dollars
TG4, 9:05 p.m.
In Sergio Leone’s classic Western, a bounty hunter appears in a small town on the Mexican border and sparks outright war between rival families.

murder in paradise
BBC1, 9 p.m.
The murder happens in Sainte Marie – again – and as Neville sets out to solve the crime, Florence goes undercover.

Sheena McGinley’s stream of the week

ozark, Netflix, streaming now
Fasten your seatbelt, Bateman fans. Part 1 of the fourth and final season is now available. If you’re wondering what this whole part 1 is about, isn’t it 10 episodes per series like the previous three seasons? — let me reassure you: this time you will receive four additional payments.

So that’s seven in Part 1, followed by the other seven in Part 2 (release date TBC). By way of a spoiler(ish)-free recap, this season opens with the Byrde family knee-deep in the FBI, the Navarro Cartel, and the aftermath of Helen’s sudden departure from the “financial advisory” business.

Looking for Part 1 information before committing? Fourteen-year-old Jonah is now a money launderer… well, he hasn’t licked a stone and has all the right contacts. As for what that ultimately means for doting parents Marty (Bateman) and Wendy (Linney) – only time and carnage will tell.

Also streaming…

The puppeteer
Netflix, streaming now
Hunting the Ultimate Conman landed last Tuesday and could be seen as a very British precursor to the soon-to-be-released Tinder Swindler. Like the latter, it’s the jaw-dropping story of one of the world’s most audacious con artists.

Over the course of a decade, Robert Hendy-Freegard controlled, defrauded and defrauded a number of souls, stealing nearly £1million in the process.

His traumatized victims were led to believe that they were complicit in highly elaborate Secret Service operations and that their families were in grave danger if they did not comply. Now, in an amazing twist, the story comes to the present day, featuring a family who fear for their mother’s safety.

My son
Amazon Prime, streaming now
Directed by Christian Carion — and starring James McAvoy, Claire Foy and Tom Cullen — My Son is an English-language remake of Carion’s French film, My Boy. It follows the story of divorced couple Edmond and Joan (McAvoy and Foy), who set out to find their seven-year-old son after learning he has been kidnapped from a campsite. Display generally busy.

Midnight Asia
Netflix, streaming now
Darkness brings out a more playful side of the multiple Asian metropolises. This docuseries captures the “eat, dance, dream” ethos that pervades once the sun goes down. After all, when night falls, a lot of people flip their switch completely… From an 85-year-old DJ dropping beats, to S&M and mixed wrestling in Manila, to Korea’s thriving indie scene. from the South (no, it’s not just K-pop), expect an eclectic assortment of often illicit delights.

Servant
Apple TV+, streaming now
Indeed, M Night Shyamalan is still making the rounds, albeit on smaller screens. He directs a few Season 3 episodes of Tony Basgallop’s rather disturbing Anatomy of Grief – via unexplainable supernatural sources. As always, Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) stars as mum Dorothy, Rupert ‘Ron’ Grint as her brother, and Nell Tiger Free as the titular ‘servant’. If Fraggle Rock is more your bag this January, new episodes of Back To The Rock are also now available.

Neymar: perfect chaos
Netflix, Tuesday
This three-parter, directed by David Charles Rodrigues, traces Neymar’s rise to glory at Santos, his glory days at FC Barcelona and the roller coaster with the Brazilian national team and with Paris Saint-Germain – all while lifting the veil behind its marketing machine. . With Beckham, Messi, Mbappé and many more.

Become curious with JVN
Netflix, Friday
Yaaas, THAT JVN. Just as you wrap up season 6 of Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness swoops in like the curious fairy godmother they are. More on that in next week’s column.