The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference (1984) - full transcript

On Tuesday, January 20th, 1942

at a house in the quiet Berlin suburb,
Wannsee, a meeting was held.

THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE.

At the invitation Reinhard Heydrich, head
of the security police and secret service,

14 key representatives of
the Nazi party, of the SS,

and the Government bureaucracy attended.

The meeting lasted just 90 minutes.

There was only one item on the agenda.

Heil Hitler.
- Heil Hitler!

Herr Gauleiter, I’m Obersturmbannführer
Eichmann. I'd like to welcome you.

Why were we ordered here to Interpol?



Are we to be arrested
for stealing silverware?

Obergruppenführer Heydrich, Chief
of Interpol, is also in charge here.

The conference rooms are suitable.
- For eavesdropping.

We must watch what we say.

I'm glad to be here.
I get lost at Headquarters.

Looks like the shack of a Wannsee Jew.

Aryanized some time ago.
- Very fitting for the occasion.

Everyone has arrived,
except the Reichsprotector himself.

His departure was delayed due to fog.

Is Heydrich flying his own plane?

He has already landed.
We expect him momentarily.

Well, well, the Ministry of the East!

Back in Berlin again.
How are our beautiful Baltic provinces?

Could be better.
Problem with the gas trucks.



Watch what you're saying.
- Nonsense! There are no blabbermouths here.

Your race expert bit off
more than he could chew.

He said he didn’t need
those trucks anymore.

So now we get Jews from all over the Reich.
Aus Stuttgart, Köln, Munich, aus Berlin.

Old hags and kids. Rabble unfit to work.

Ghettoes are bursting
at the seams again.

In Riga we had 15 thousand...

Are we just going to write off the East?

We put in n good word
for you with the Führer.

That's the best we can do.
- There are more important operations.

We're always getting dumped on!
- Pull yourself together.

At ease.

It's in your own interest to
send the Jews someplace else.

You're getting very few as it is.
- 25,000 since October!

Most are being held in Lodz.
The army needs the railroad cars.

Lodz is already overloaded.
We must make more room.

We have to ship them
out to finish the job.

The trucks are used around the clock.
- Then build more!

By spring we'll look much better.
More elegant.

Are you the hunchback of Notre Dame?

Just reporting on my prison inspection.

Hellish mutations.
Whatever happened to racial purity?

They should be looked
over and weeded out.

Headquarters has always maintained
that convicts belong in the camps.

The Reichsführer-SS is solely
responsible for anti-social elements.

What's right is what
is good for the people.

Nobody understands that,
not even the Ministry of Justice.

Don't look at me, comrade.
I'm an old National Socialist, too.

I'm far from a bleeding heart.

The National Court of Justice
needs a new president.

The Reichsführer wants a “no ifs,
ands or buts" person. Dr. Freisler?

I'd rather keep a low profile.

I was just explaining our policy
on Jews to this charming lady.

It's interesting for me.
- What did you call it?

Privileged mixed marriage.
- In privileged mixed marriages...

Which don't fall under the
special Jewish measures.

Childless mixed marriages are
privileged if the man is Aryan.

If he’s a Jew, they’re not.
- I don't understand.

We proceed on the basis
of the Nuremberg Laws

which the male determines the
racial character of the offspring.

And if there are children? - Only
privileged if they are not raised as Jews.

Even if the father is Aryan?
- Yes. - I'm lost again.

An Aryan father's belief in the Jewish
faith outweighs his Aryan blood.

He’s considered a Jew
and treated as a Jew.

Now you're applying religious
distinctions rather than racial ones.

It isn’t quite that simple.
- No?

Don’t feel bad. It took me
six years of toil and sweat

to formulate our Jewish
laws and understand them.

I still don’t understand them.

Gruppenführer, a minor problem.
- Yes, Stadtsekretär, with the Gestapo?

Actually with Eichmann,
your Jew specialist.

He includes half-Jews and mixed-
marriage Jews in the Jewish measures.

I'm getting complaints
about the interrogations.

Your Jew specialist
interrogates in the presence

of shady characters from the
SS whose roles aren’t clear

unless it's —how should I put it —
to intimidate.

They just sit there, waiting
for a signal. - Signal?

To jump in. Can't that be stopped?
It doesn't improve the atmosphere.

Let me put your mind at ease.

Just agree to tighten up
certain Jewish measures today

and the rest will be superfluous.
- Well, we’ll see.

I see you finally got an SS tuxedo.

As an honorary SS officer,
I mustn’t embarrass the Reichsführer.

But as the Reichsführer says,
"It takes more than just trappings."

Telephone call from Riga for you.

Tell me. Must my reports on the
liquidations be circulated by the dozens?

“Top Secret" should restrict them.
- You want to keep secrets here?

I need another drink. It's damn cold
out. Our poor men outside Moscow.

I can't return wrecked
cars to the railroad!

What?
How can I negotiate for more trains

if we return them in pieces?

Take care of it!
I'm holding you personally responsible.

I expect a report on what
you've done in one hour!

The train leaves on schedule at
17:16 or you lose your stripes!

Is that clear?

There's a problem, sir.
- Riga?

During the unloading of the 1500
Viennese Jews who arrived for relocation.

Compartment windows were broken, sir.
- An escape attempt?

No. They wanted the ice from
the inside of the windows.

Or so it seems.
- Why?

They were thirsty.
And that's not the worst.

Corpses, frozen to their seats.
The escort squad simply yanked them up.

And the boards along with them.
Substantial damage.

Is an Obersturmbannführer in the SS
the same as a Major in the Army? - Yes.

You're a Colonel?
- Not quite. Lieutenant Colonel.

And you? A General?
- No Lieutenant General.

The Reichsprotector is a General.
- And a Staatssekretär is a Deputy Minister?

Not quite. - There's a lot of top
brass here today. - Glad to announce that.

Attention! Heil Hitler!

Please adjourn to the conference room.

Müller, Eichmann, Lange, with me.
And the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Sit! Stay, Hasso! I'll be right back.

Forgive me, but my time is
divided between Prague and Berlin.

I understand.
I hear we've got the go-ahead.

I have some privileged information

you might want for your
report to the Foreign Minister.

I was present at a meeting. between
the Führer and the Reichsführer-SS.

The Führer feels the Jews have
lost their value as hostages.

America's entry into the
war changes everything.

The Jews have now surrounded the Reich.

The Führer is especially
disappointed in England.

He hoped they would acknowledge
our legitimate requests -

Living space in the East,
appropriate status in Europe

solution of the Jewish
question through emigration.

We could have reached an agreement.
We are of the same race.

The Jews have taken over
Downing Street as well.

The Führer has lost all patience.
Why spare our Jews

when we pre obliged to settle
accounts with world Jewry?

This is the situation right now.
- I fully understand.

The responsibility
lies in foreign hands.

Why did no one take our Jews
when there was still time?

Why boycott our emigration programs?

A Jewish state in Palestine is no
more desirable to England than to us.

We can't risk upsetting the Grand
Mufti the Führer’s Arab ally.

But Madagascar should
have been acceptable.

The Jews have only themselves to blame.

I understand why the Führer
is making them pay.

They've amassed a huge debt.
One day the world will thank us.

But maybe it will wake up
and listen to reason

when we deport the “Chosen
People" en masse to the East.

Maybe it will strike terror in the
hearts of Roosevelt and Churchill.

As the Führer says,
"It's good if terror leads our way —

the terror that we will
exterminate the Jews."

Now please excuse us.

Everything okay with the Gestapo here?

Yes, sir. What about...
- Taken care of. Keep it quiet.

Its very nature camouflages it.
And why, gentlemen?

Because no one can imagine it.
- I could say, Obergruppenführer...

Naturally, something always leaks
out in matters of such magnitude.

Being informed, within limits,
can't hurt our good citizens.

Shared knowledge means
shared responsibility.

Shared responsibility means shared liability.
- Very elegant.

Do you have the documents?
- Yes, herr Gruppenführer.

Good to see you.
What's new in Riga? Good flight?

Apart from my dog puking
all over the plane, fine.

Does the dog always come along?
- He wanted a vacation.

You have the latest task force report?

Brigadeführer Stahlecker and
the SS Commander in the East

authorized me to report:
Estonia, Jew-free!

Latvia and Lithuania,
Jew-free except for work Jews!

Congratulations. Excellent.

With all due respect, sir,
my comrades took the liberty

of drawing up a chart
of the quotas filled.

In Task Force Group A,
we've reached 220,000.

I want take a look to the documents.
- The other groups combined total 500,000.

We're getting there.

You’re trembling. Too much booze?
- That’s part of it.

There are ladies in Berlin
who can take care of you.

Why only 40,000 in White Russia?

The area is just too large.
Not enough trucks or gasoline.

The ground is frozen so we
can’t dig more mass graves

which means we can't shoot.

And you'll be getting
shipments from the Reich.

We didn't really plan
on starting up again.

You'll be getting special trucks.
Asphyxiation through exhaust fumes.

I've heard about this
from an SS Commander.

He says it's messier than shooting.
Hard to believe.

What's your opinion, Eichmann?

Eichmann puked like Lange's dog.
- What was matter?

Things went wrong.

I was an eyewitness.
While unloading the trucks...

...we saw that the exhaust fumes
weren't completely effective.

Some were dead,
some half dead, some alive.

It was, if I may say so,
not a very pleasant situation.

Who said it would be pleasant?
- Slip-ups happen.

There were women,
children and elderly among them.

They’re Jews too aren't they?

It's been resolved.
A minor technical problem.

The carbon monoxide was burning off
before reaching the back of the truck.

Eichmann, it seems you handled it quite
well. I want to tell you something.

The Reichsführer-SS himself
fainted during an execution.

Nothing dishonorable in that.
It proves we Germans are human.

But it is dishonorable
not to carry out

what the future of our people demand,
whether it is pleasant or not.

It is dishonorable to be a weakling
which we in the SS are not.

I recommend. we relieve Eichmann from
future inspections of gas operations.

Theoretically, we’ve worked it all out.
- Where do we stand?

Herr Gruppenführer, first – executions.

Appropriate near the front,
but technically and psychologically

bad for the final solution.
Second - special vehicles. The same.

Third: stationary exhaust units.
Fourth – Zyklon-B.

Initial results in Auschwitz - promising.
- A battle of beliefs has broken out.

Wirth swears by engine exhaust,
Hoss by Zyklon-B.

It's a pesticide gas. - I'll suggest to
the Reichsführer to continue on all four.

Competition's good for business.
So, gentelmen.

A word, herr Gruppenführer. - Yes? - There
have been some complaints. - Yes, and?

Certain district commissioners...
- Who?

Gauleiter Kube, for example.
They treat us like scum.

Why so sensitive?
- It's no fun to be sneered at

by bloated bureaucrats
in party uniform

who keep favored Jews for their
manicures, haircuts and laundry.

Just because our work disturbs
their peace of mind

they sit high and dry and gripe
about our “barbarity" and "sadism."

They say that it's unworthy of
the Germany of Kant and Goethe.

That my men lust after executions!

And that from a man who
roams the Minsk ghetto

looking for Jewish beauties
for his private pleasure.

I would like to ask if we,
who are only doing our duty,

must put up with such mudslingers?

Let them talk. That’s not the point.

We have personnel from the
earlier administration:

Bureaucrats, yes-men,
civil servants as well as

old school conservatives,
romantic nationalists, etc.

We harness these questionable
elements and party members

and force them
share responsibility

or stumble into it.
That goes for Kube, too.

He differentiates between first-class
Jews, who should be spared

and second-class Jews,
cultured Jews and subhumans.

That’s not the Führer's idea.
- Totally impractical.

If you take one, you take them all.

And that’s their pitfall. Clear?
- Yes, herr Obergruppenführer.

They have no choice.
If said A, then said B.

And that’s our purpose today.

Orderlies reliable?
- Hand-picked.

Let’s go deal with these bureaucrats.

Password?
- Suckers.- March!

Excuse me, Gauleiter.
- Shall we move down?

A problem, gentlemen?

Unless you’re superstitious,
please sit at the head of the table.

That way the Reich Chancellery
can keep an eye on us.

We've neglected the young lady.
Please sit over there.

It will make your job easier, and it
will add a nice touch to our circle.

Can’t you shut him up?
- I will try, herr Obergruppenführer.

It could end up in the minutes.

Thank you gentelmen.

Would you like the minutes verbatim?

A detailed account will suffice.

Herr Gauleiter, Staatssekretäre,
Reichsunsleiter #

I want to thank you for
accepting my invitation

on such short notice.

The reason for this
meeting is explained

in a letter from the Reichsmarshall,

a copy of which was enclosed
with your invitation. - Yes, it is.

I’ll quickly read you the letter.
Berlin, July 31, 1941.

The Reichsmarshall,
Commissioner of the Four-Year Plan

Chairman of the Council
for National Defense.

To: Chief of the Security Police
SS-Gruppenführer Heydrich, Berlin.

Obergruppenführer.
- Excuse me? - Obergruppenführer Heydrich.

Not at the time.

"In addition to your regular duties," etc.

"I hereby instruct you to
take all necessary steps...

I’ll work out the details.

...toward a solution to the
Jewish question in Europe

and to submit a complete outline

for the implementation
of the final solution.

Since other authorities
will be affected by this

they should be included."

In other words, gentlemen, you.
Signed, Goering.

Peace at last.

Please attach a copy to the minutes.

Is there a special reason,
Herr Reichsprotector... - Deputy.

why you waited half a year
to execute this letter

dated last July?
- Three reasons.

The preparations were
extremely complicated

and interfered with my duties

as Deputy Reichsprotector
of Bohemia and Moravia.

An earlier meeting was cancelled
when America entered the war

and new demands were
placed on my departments.

The reason I'm, asking is,
your invitation says:

"In view of the importance
of these questions

and in the interest
of reaching solution

I propose,
in order to coordinate our efforts

that these problems be discussed,
especially in view of the fact"

and this is my point -

that since October 15th

there has been a constant flow of
Jews from the Reich territories

including Bohemia and
Moravia evacuated to the East."

Yes?
- These transports

particularly from Berlin have caused

the Reich Chancellery
increasing embarrassment.

There have been rumors about the special
treatment of evacuees in the East.

These rumors have lead to 208 suicides
among Jews designated for deportation.

On the other hand
the offices involved

were not able
to provide any information.

Nor could we expect an explanation from
the Führer under the circumstances.

We are living in turbulent times.

Our meeting here today is a sign of our
"good will."

What did you do with him?
- I gave him his rations.

Plenty of everything here.

Concerning the Berlin Jews...

Why don’t they believe they're being
sent to labor camps in the East?

Do they know what actually awaits them?

That’s why they’re
jumping out of windows.

But what do their neighbors and
friends say? Imagine the gossip!

Another reason to rapidly
eliminate this problem.

That would be advisable. Jewish suicides
have given the Foreign Office headaches.

The foreign press picked it up.
And there were other problems,

such as transporting Jews...
holding foreign passports.

Slip-ups happen.
- Tell that to an ambassador

And we should stop including
Jews from mixed marriages

in these operations. It's a mistake.

And the Ministry finds it regrettable.

These are teething problems, which
should not continue. - Steps have been taken.

Since we're on the subject...
- The more the merrier.

The Reichsmarshall,
as head of the Four Year Plan

is against deporting
armament workers.

He says you’re not playing by the rules.

It seems to me that he complains today
yet welcomes it tomorrow.

It’s not easy, especially when
there’s a conflict of authority.

It is crucial that we clear up
the question of leadership now.

It's always difficult
in dear old Berlin

to agree on who is
responsible for what.

I don't understand why
everybody wants responsibility.

It only means more work.

But that is a basic German flaw.
- Virtue.

As you please.

All joking aside I declare categorically
- leadership will lie exclusively

with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich
Himmler. And under him my humble self.

Do you have that in writing?

From the hand of the Führer.

Obviously, such far-reaching measures

could not be taken
without prior authorization.

The Führer's word weighs
more than any paper.

If after this meeting
you can name anyone

who is in a position to carry
out the planned solution...

in an orderly and decent manner

I'll be the first to say,
“Be my guest."

We have two and a half million
Jews in the General Province.

A major and complex problem
in what was formerly Poland.

Am I to report to the Governor General..

that you will be
encroaching on his authority?

We’re taking over your problem.
We're getting it off your back.

It will quickly disappear
and you’ll thank us.

Then your authority will extend
to all departments in the East.

Correct!
But mutual cooperation is essential.

Are you listening?

Right.

The Governor General does not
oppose uncompromising action

either in the question
of the Poles or the Jews

as I am sure the SS and the
Secret Service will confirm.

The problem is just...

Only recently the
Ministry of the East

gave him the advice to
"liquidate them yourself."

We in the East cannot take
the Jews off his hands.

We have too many,
in spite of the work of the task forces.

It isn't as if the Governor
General had reservations

about a final solution the question.

In our briefing before I came here,
he stressed his willingness

to make the General
Province Jew-free

in accordance with the measures

decided on by the Reich.
It's a matter of controlling

the “large number of parasites
in Poland, " as he put it.

It is a question of procedure.
- Precisely!

We have answered question of procedure.

We have the means, the methods

the organization,
the experience and the people

and the determination

We are today at a historical
moment in our battle against Jewry!

Four times the Führer has
broadcast his determination

to collect the Jewish debt
owed to the German people

by eradicating Jewry in Europe.

The Führer sees himself as
the Robert Koch of politics

eradicating the bacteria
to save the organism.

Question is: "It's either them or us."

What has happened so far?
Let me recapitulate:

A) Through comprehensive
Jewish statutes

Jews have been methodically
expelled without mercy

from all walks of German life.
B) We have pushed them out

of the living space
of the German people

mainly interning them
in concentration camps.

On the other hand with special
thanks to the abilities of Eichmann

we have, while fighting the war

motivated 537,000 Jews to leave.

C) In the East, since the beginning
of the war, we have brought about

the physical annihilation of 100,000
Polish, Baltic and Russian Jews.

You of the Party

the Reich Chancellery
the Foreign Office

the Ministry for the East
and the General Province

were kept informed by the
reports of our task forces

which were supplied
to you by the Gestapo.

I’d like to welcome the Commander
of the Security Police in Latvia

SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Lange. Coming
from the northern area of operations...

he has been instrumental in
the activities carried out so far.

On behalf of all of us I want to express our
appreciation and esteem to Comrade Lange.

Experience was gained in
these and other operations

that will be enormous significance
in the forthcoming final solution.

The Reichsführer-SS has forbidden
any further emigration of Jews.

Those Jews remaining in the Reich
as well as all European Jews

in our present and future
sphere of influence...

will lie evacuated to the East
and subjected to the final solution.

Such as the Russian Jews?
- One might say that.

Does that mean we’re getting Jews
from other European countries?

You'll have to concentrate on Jews
from the East as the front advances.

Does that apply to all task forces?

Yes. You can pass some Jews on
to the final solution sites.

Do I understand correctly?

So the Eastern Provinces won't be
the site of the final solution?

Well, not everybody can
reap the laurels, gentlemen.

So we’re the final solution site?

Some of it will take place
in the Eastern Provinces.

Where?
- In the boondocks.

Primarily around Lublin.
- Under the direction of Schöngarth?

- You didn't tell me.
- I didn't know.

That would impinge on the Governor
General’s responsibility

as granted by the Führer.

You are, by no means, in charge.

An SS Commander and a Police
chief will be in charge.

And they will report directly
to the Reichsführer-SS.

Obergruppenführer Globocnik was seen
in Lublin. - You saw correctly.

Large-scale construction is going on,
but we are denied access.

Could be. - In view of
the magnitude of the operations...

You won't be, affected. We plan to
proceed quickly, efficiently and quietly.

The highest offices expect

absolute cooperation
in this vital matter.

A brief demographic and
geographic survey

to show what we're dealing
with regarding the Jews in Europe.

We have a map with the Reich
territory before the war in red.

Here, the present front in the East.
In white, conquered territories

under our civil administration.
In pink annexed territories.

In red vertical lines,
European areas occupied by our armies.

Finally, in red horizontal lines

our allies and countries
in our sphere of influence.

What we see scattered over the
entire map like fly specks

illustrates the density
of the Jewish population.

That is what we are faced with today.

The further we advanced in this
area between Riga and Odessa

the denser the concentration
of the Jewish enemy.

These little lords and masters
have really taken over.

In my hometown of Odessa alone,
there are 70,000 Jewish inhabitants.

I'm sorry, what?
- There used to be.

Of course.

To be brief, our task forces

following hard on the
heels of our troops

have practically eliminated this
concentration of Jews in one swoop.

With some prodding,
we used the anti-Semitism

of the local population.
- Strike that, please.

Success seems almost inconceivable.

How big is a task force?
How does it work?

Comrade Lange. Be brief, please.

Four task forces of 1,000 men each.

Composition - Waffen SS, SS Reserves,
Gestapo, Kripo, Secret Service, SD.

Two dozen female employees.
The groups operate in squads.

Success depends on
a combination of organization,

deception and an
uncompromising will to destroy.

An enormous emotional strain.

It’s not a piece of cake,
but orders are orders.

We are now shifting from
the casual to the precise.

Sot we depend on harmonious cooperation.

Harmonious?
- We're counting on you.

In regards to the final
solution as a whole

we are counting on you as well,
Mr. Secretary.

What needs to be solved
will be solved here

in the asshole of
the world as my men say.

Under the cloak of war,
obscured by the smoke of gunpowder

a lot of unusual things are possible.

The Reichsführer-SS wants the
resolution of the Jewish question

to take place in one clean sweep.

And the number of Jews affected amounts,
all in all, to 11 million!

So, 11 million.

I beg your pardon. - I hope you were
less clumsy with these figures.

Eleven million.
The breakdown is as follows:

In the Reich proper, 130,000 remaining.
Austria: 43,000.

Protectorate: 75,000. Total USSR:
the biggest chunk, 5 million.

In the General Province: 2.5 million.

Large numbers in the Balkans.
Let's see, about...

...about 1.6 million.

In the West, occupied France,
for example, 165,000.

Unoccupied France,
a nice little chunk: 740,000.

In view of the imminent total
reorganization of Europe

we also have figures for
unoccupied countries such as

England: 330,000.

And neutral countries,
such as Switzerland with 18,000

members of the “Chosen People."

What contamination!
- That’s terrible.

Not for long.

A question. Where are the figures?

Here are the charts.
- Thank you.

Whose figures are those? - From
the Jewish Commission of the State Police.

At Eichmann’s request,
the Foreign Office also contributed.

Is the data reliable?
- It's pretty close, Mr. Minister.

What lies ahead is an organizational
task unparalleled in history.

How is it to be done?

In the course of orderly execution

Europe will be combed
from west to east.

Jews will be placed in collection camps,
then load by load

evacuated to the East and
delivered to their proper destiny.

About transportation.
The problem of mobilization...

Won't transporting
millions hinder the army?

That's already a headache.
- At a moment

when we’re faced with military problems
on the Eastern front do the SS,

Gestapo, Reich and local police have
priority over the combat troops?

I’m thinking about the
supply and relief problems

which my son,
a staff officer, told me about.

Mr. Minister,
it is not a question of priorities.

The steps toward a final solution

are as important as
all other war efforts.

We are fighting internal
and external enemies.

It isn’t a luxury in
which we're indulging.

Wherever we fight the Jew,
we are fighting for the Reich!

I do not doubt that everyone present
agrees with you wholeheartedly.

There isn't a staff problem because
we only need a handful of people.

But regarding transportation
on which everything depends,

perhaps my Jew specialist,
Eichmann can fill you in.

He is our shipping agent, so to speak.

Cognac! Your report please. Be brief.

My duties as Jew specialist in
Office IV-B4 of the Gestapo

in the Reich Central
Security Office

include the power to
seize and transport Jews.

In accordance with the successful
methods used in the Reich

seizure by local authorities
and the Gestapo is as follows:

Once a Jew is detected registered
and segregated, he is arrested.

He hands over his house keys and signs
over his possessions to the Reich.

Then with one suitcase
and 50 marks in cash

he proceeds to a remote railroad
junction where he is loaded on board.

Transportation requires joint coordination
by the Ministry of Transportation

the Army and the Railroads
Timetable Commission.

For better surveillance
by the escort personnel

we prefer freight cars.

Seizure and transportation are
subject to consideration

of the capacity of the
destinations in the East

whether ghettoes,
work camps, transit camps

or, in the end, direct operations.

Transportation will not be curtailed.

We claim only freight cars carrying
Russian civilian worker's

which would otherwise return empty.
In effect, an exchange takes place:

A Russian for a Jew,
a Jew for a Russian.

However, for the sake of appearances

we also include passenger
trains up to the Reich border.

Gesundheit, gentelmen!

Now we know where one
can still live in luxury.

They say your private wine
cellar isn't exactly empty.

Why should it be?
Why don't you come visit me?

Come and visit.
- I have one question.

Why do the Jews agree to turn
over their property to the Reich?

Proper procedure. They must
forfeit their possessions anyway

when crossing the border.
- But their exit isn't exactly voluntary.

Psychological reasons, too. Formalities
are more soothing, more elegant.

As for the effects on the economy,
not much would be gained

if we bring in masses of
unskilled foreign laborers

...and kick out skilled
Jewish armament workers..

If they are of use to us they can stay.

Privileged status for
Jewish armament workers.

I would like those comments in the minutes.
- Yes, herr Obergruppenführer.

Would you like to work for me in Prague?

You're pleasing to the eye.
- Thank you, Obergruppenführer.

I'll have to think about it.
- Do that.

The second question, Obergruppenführer.
- Yes, please.

About the Aryanization
of Jewish property...

It was appropriated
for the Four-Year Plan.

What will happen with their
remaining assets? It's a tidy sum.

We use it to finance our operations,
which are costly.

Goering, Himmler and the Minister
of Finance will be discussing it.

Just a moment gentlemen.
I feel a bit overwhelmed.

I see you're about to
divide up the cake.

I'd like to know how
you intend to bake it.

Why? - What I don’t
know won't hunt me.

I'd be happy to answer your question.

In the final solution we
will use Jews in the East

as a supervised labor pool.

We will march them, separated by sex,
of course, in large work gangs.

While building roads into those areas

we’ll have them breaking rocks,
drying swamps.

And we’ll also give them an opportunity
in huge industrial complexes

which the SS Economic
Office is building there

to find out what it
means to really work.

Splendid. It's inconceivable

that our men should freeze in the
Russian winter while Israel and Sarah

lead a life of leisure in
concentration camp resorts.

Of course,
a large portion of these Jews

will be eliminated
through natural causes.

The strongest ones

will have to be dealt
with appropriately.

Because these, natural selection

would be the seeds of
a new Jewish resurgence.

Look at the lessons of history.

But now we're writing history,
not the Jews. And in the future

the Jew will no longer appear in it.

He will exit the, stage.
- Leaving the world in peace.

I'm impressed. A new perspective.

A revolutionary solution!

Worthy of all the glorious
visions of the Führer.

Yet all this now? Front-line battles!
Prisoners of war!

Foreign workers! And now Jews!

Isn't it too much?
- We'll take on even more.

Solving the Jewish problem is one thing.

The reorganization of Europe is another.

We're right in the middle. In Poland,
what has happened? Liquidations!

Polish intelligentsia, teachers,
clergy, nobility, etc.

have been eliminated
to a large extent.

This will continue in cooperation
with local authorities.

What is planned? 1) Population exchange.

Open up western Poland to 10 million
Reich and repatriated Germans.

The rest of Poland, ditto,
for future German settlement.

2) Germanization.
The Race and Settlement Office

sorts Poles into four categories.

The majority will vanish
alongside the Jews.

A minority will be used as a labor
force for those construction projects

with which the Führer
will imprint forever

the stamp of German
culture on the new Europe.

3) Finally, annihilation.

Birth control will strike at
the roots of what's left

so that they wither and die.
Finish the Poland.

Telephone.
The Reichsführer-SS at Headquarters.

Gentlemen, we still have two
complex topics to discuss.

Since these will not
concern all of you

I suggest we refresh ourselves
with a small, informal buffet.

Neat and clean. I like that.

An historic day.
- And we were there.

It's going well, isn't it?
- Elegantly. It's all so unexpected.

Snap decisions,
the Führer's strong point.

How can the Province cope
with these masses of Jews?

What do you care? Is it your business?

These people have to be housed and fed.
Our crops go to the Reich.

Don ask me, Mr. Secretary.
I only make the deliveries.

What are you saying?
- The Gestapo has nothing to do with it.

And neither do you.
- Me? No.

Our ghettoes are overcrowded. Half
a million crammed into one in Warsaw.

We can’t feed them. They’re dying
like flies. 20,000 in a single year.

But that, dear colleague,
should be the least of your worries.

Epidemics don't ask whether
you're a Jew or an Aryan.

Seal off the ghettoes.
- Done.

But some Jews work outside the ghettoes.

Why get excited? These problems
will be taken off your hands.

The Foreign Office gets rid
of them and dumps them on us!

Don't attack me. If not for me,
your problems would be bigger.

Ah, ok? - Yes. You'd now have
Jews from Serbia, for example.

We were supposed to get them?
- 8,000 men.

Lucky for you we found another solution.
Eichmann's idea.

The army needed hostages after partisan
attacks. We said, "Help yourself."

Jews as hostages for Serbian partisans?

Is that true?
- Jew or partisan, it's the same.

And all 8,000, you..

The army command set a quota:

200 hostage for each soldier murdered.
So there weren't even enough.

It was tough for us.
Conflicts of authority.

Quite a fuss abroad, too.
Even the Vatican stepped in.

Vatican, the Nuncio.

He comes and beats around the bush:
"Wouldn't a discussion about

shooting hostages in
Belgrade be fruitful?"

The Foreign Office replied that
of all foreign authorities,

the Vatican had behaved most sensibly.
- How so?

By simply not acknowledging it.
- And the Nuncio?

The Nuncio didn't want
to touch the matter.

Nor does he want Fi to
do so in the future.

For God's sake, no!

Gentlemen, please be brief.
My time is limited.

I want to address the problem of
foreign Jews and their treatment

and of half-breeds
and mixed marriages.

It would be helpful to inform
the Reich Chancellery firsthand.

Have interoffice arrangements been made?

We at Section III have been
instructed by the Foreign Minister

to work closely together
with Gestapo Office IV-B4.

As Jew specialist of the Gestapo,
I’m already in regular contact

with the Jew specialist from G-III.
- What are the particulars?

We distinguish between
foreign Jews in the Reich

foreign Jews in countries
under German jurisdiction

and foreign Jews in
countries friendly to us.

Regarding foreign Jews in the Reich
- How many are there?

40,000. With regard to these people

the Foreign Minister agreed
no notice will be taken

of protests by governments
of those countries

with which we are at
war including the USA.

Good. In the minutes? - As for Jews in
the Reich from countries friendly to us

for reasons of courtesy
we queried the governments

if they agreed to the
deportation of these Jews.

I’ll bet you they did.

Affirmative replies have,
been from Rumania, Croatia and Slovakia.

Bulgaria is joining in. Slovakia,
however claims their Jews' property.

Money is money.
- We replied?

It's contingent on approval
by the Four-Year Plan officer.

To ease deportation,
the Reichsmarshall will agree

especially since it probably
doesn’t involve a lot of money.

Even pennies add up.

So the Jews living in the Reich from
these countries can be cleared out?

Yes, herr Obergruppenführer. - And the Jews
areas under German jurisdiction?

Eastern Jews are at the
discretion of the Reichsführer-SS.

Just for clarification...
Do the Security Police Commanders

and Secret Service work with him?
- You never give up.

You'll have enough to do. Remaining
Jews, work Jews, partisans, Polacks, etc.

I’m not complaining. - Don't
rejoice yet. You still have a lot to do.

May I ask a question?
What is to be done with the Jews

in the other occupied territories?
- Instructions are forthcoming.

We first have to deal with the Jews

who escaped from the Reich.
40,000 in France alone.

Oh, my God, we've got them back!
- The price of victory.

But this time all we get from
it is a few cardboard suitcases.

They’ve already been interned in
occupied and unoccupied France.

We have access to both.
- No resistance from the military,

ambassadors, or French people.

They have no idea of the
nature of the final solution?

How could they?
- That's the official dictum.

And Jews living in occupied territories?
- There are still some problems.

There's been flak from
the military commander

about the French Jews.
He's afraid of riots.

I had sharp words with the
High Commander, and we agreed:

Free rein on all Jewish
matters in France. Eichmann?

Understood.

The other countries? Holland?
- Nothing worth mentioning.

Belgium? - Taken care of.
- Luxemburg? - No problem.

Greece?
- It can be done. - Serbia?

We’d like to solve the problem
of the remaining Serbian Jews.

Serbia would be the
first Jew-free country.

The second.
Allow me to report: Estonia —

Jew-free, aready reported.
- You've already...? - We are informed.

I should report what we're doing.

It is our territory!
- But our business.

Will we get... - Copies of reports
go to all central authorities.

A Jew-free Serbia? Interesting.
- Aryanization Is complete.

Ghettoization has taken place.
- Small numbers.

20,000.
- The wives, children, parents

of the 8,000 men affected
by the hostage shootings.

Gauleiter, do you want them?
Ghetto? For now?

Well, to be frank...

And you?
- As I said before..

May I speak with you, Mr. Secretary?
Müller, Eichmann.

Proceed in minutes.

Let's not lose any time. For the remaining
Serbian Jews we'll use gas trucks.

Must we appease the Serbs?
- No. Puppets.

I'll handle the military
commander myself.

The Reichsführer will inform the SS.
- Who should command?

May I suggest Dr. Schäfer?

He blew up the Gleiwitz radio
station and will be discreet.

When can he go to work?
- In two days.

Good, let's go.
- The gas trucks are for us - Any objections?

Of course not. - In the meantime,
improvise. - Right.

You had a question?
- Yes.

What's the situation with the Jews
in friendly or independent countries?

How will you induce them
to hand over their Jews?

We've tried to guide these
countries onto an anti-Semitic path.

We've induced some to
pass Jewish laws

based on the German model.
We've made them accomplices.

regarding their Jews
residing in the Reich.

Once the ice is broken,
they’re more willing to listen.

No one doubts your efficiency.
- I mention it only to be complete.

I am grateful for any information. The
Reich Chancellery can only be effective

as a link between the
central authorities

if it's adequately informed.
- We don't keep secrets from you.

The Foreign Office places agents,
usually recruited from the SS

in the foreign
governments concerned

to guarantee the necessary
race policy initiatives.

The Party Chancellery confirms
that you have succeeded

in creating room for
rational socialists

in diplomatic circles. Thank you.

Are these people under
the command of the Party?

They are on loan from us.

We at the Foreign
Office enjoy support

from the Reich Main
Security Office

which makes our work in foreign
governments more effective

with the help of special
Jew consultants from the SS.

The Foreign Office has handed
authority over to the SS?

It ends with the solution
of the Jewish question.

These people answer directly to you?
- Yes. To my Jew specialist.

Eichmann is more than a shipping agent,
after all.

He was even active in Serbia!

Just a few suggestions on my part.

Where else do Jew laws exist?
- Slovakia, Croatia, Rumania.

In Slovakia, they've been
concentrated in three labor camps.

What happens to the Jewish assets?

Offered as bait to the governments.
- That's billions.

It's been decided at a higher level.
We can expropriate it later.

We try to have them contribute

toward transport costs
and sustenance in the East

for every Jew deported.

But, we hope, never from Italy.
That would be a disaster.

The Italians are more sensitive
than even the Danes and Bulgarians.

They jump to defend every single Jew.
A disgusting mentality.

It's high time our allies
realized how things stand.

What about the Cozzi affair?
- Not that again!

What was that? - The Italian Consul
General in Danzig protested the transfer

of an Italian Jewess, Jenni
Cozzi to the Riga ghetto. - And?

She was married to a high-ranking
Italian officer, now deceased. - Ah so.

I processed the case. The Italians
demanded her release and return to Italy.

You received my letter?
- Yes. - I informed the Foreign Office

that we cannot grant the
request. We fear the Jewess Cozzi

would exploit the conditions in the Riga
ghetto to make propaganda for the Jews.

That would complicate
our position with Italy.

We asked the Consul General
to cease his protests.

But for the Italians, it involves
the honor of a deceased officer.

The Italian Ambassador has requested
we reconsider our decision.

Now I know why the
Italians can't win a war.

Before you know it,
Il Duce will be at our door.

The Fascist Party has
approached the Party Offices.

We referred them to Gestapo IV-B4.
- I gave the order: Cozzi stays.

Done. - I refuse to trouble
myself with 11 million Cozzis.

She represents 58,000 Italian Jews.
It could set a precedent.

If there are no objections I'll
address all Italian questions

to Il Duce's Chief of Police.
- We only request be kept informed.

In the minutes?
- In the minutes.

You're still thinking?
- I'm still thinking, Obergruppenführer.

Any more questions about foreign Jews?
- No, thank you.

There aren't any dog
lovers left in Germany.

First we need a clear definition
of how the groups are divided.

Thank you. I have the flu.

According to the Nuremberg Laws

half-Jews are equated with Germans,
so are exempt from Jewish measures.

That’s going to change?
- Yes, it will change.

The basis of a new regulation

is this letter which I received
from the Reich Chancellery.

Please read it out loud.
You have a copy of it, don’t you?

Do you have this?
- Yes, I will open that.

It concerns the treatment of
those of first degree mixed race?

In other words, so-called half-Jews.
And I quote:

“Jews of first-degree mixed race
are the same as full Jews

in regard to the final solution."
- Half-Jews equal full Jews?

That reversing everything the
Ministry has advocated for six years.

And for good reason!
There are provisions for exceptions.

Exeptions or not, we can't suddenly
lower the status of half Jews

and make them wear the Star of David.
It’s out of the question!

Just listen. - It says,
“Exempt from this treatment are:

A) "Half-Jews with a German spouse" -
That goes without saying.

"provided they have children i.e.,
quarter-Jews."

Unacceptable. And B)?

Half-Jews raised to Aryan
status by the top authorities

of the Party and the State by virtue

of their special merit in vital fields."
- How generous.

However, a review of these
case anticipated.

Under whose guidance?
- Yours, of course.

And the Party’s.
- Yes, of couse.

The eventuality that a new decision

will revoke the privileged
status granted such Jews

is not ruled put.
- You don't say.

Gentlemen, a blunt question.
Who concocted this crap?

Not you. - We did.
The Party. The Brown House.

We regard it as a draft.

We will discuss about this.
- Your opinions, gentlemen.

It makes no difference if
the mixed races stay or go.

The Reichsminister would agree.

Provided that it doesn't cost
us any skilled armament workers.

We’ll discuss that.
- The Ministry or justice approves

any action if it is within the law.

I speak for all my comrades
at SS Headquarters.

The solution of the
mixed-race question is crucial

in the interest of racial purification.

It’s time to clear out
this half-breed race.

It’s intolerable that it should
be kept alive any longer.

It constantly presents problems,
and we don't have time for that.

In the name of the Party and the Brown
House I declare that the proposal

to equate half-Jews with Jews
with Jews is absolutely acceptable.

You find it acceptable that we
reexamine every mixed race case?

Now, in the midst of war?
That's a lot of work.

We must all make an extra effort.

Wouldn't it make more sense
to do that at the front?

It's certainly more pleasant
work than being at the front.

I shirk neither work nor active duty!

I've repeatedly requested
a command at the front

which is more than others can say.
- The fight against the Jews

is of equal importance.
- As it should be.

I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Five pounds of special Jewish
legislation from my office

prohibiting Jews from entering
German forests, or keeping a canary.

And always exempting the half-Jews.

There are no directives to
the contrary from the Führer.

But it is self-evident
in the final solution.

Yes, for you, but not for me.

What's the head count?
- Half-Jews?

In the Reich itself as of ’39:

72,000.
- Holy God.

And with dependents it's hundreds of
thousands. - They weren't directly affected.

Then why do we need a
decision by the Führer?

Isn't the right philosophy and
attitude enough for a correct decision?

It's not news that I'm called
a Jew-lover in the Brown House.

But repetition doesn't make it true.

Otherwise I wouldn't be
an honorary SS officer.

Old animosities won't get us anywhere.

Please continue, Staatssekretäre.
- Thank you, Obergruppenführer.

If I point out some of the questions
of the mixed race problem

I do so only in the
interest of German people.

The German people! Those bastards!

It's not for my personal pleasure
but because of legal stipulations.

The letter of the law shouldn’t obstruct
necessary developments. - That's how it is.

Meanwhile I must accept "Heil Hitler"
from a half-Jew neighbor.

He’s not allowed to do that.
- No? - No.

Have you his name and address?
- With pleasure.

It leaves the door wide
open for race defilement.

He can't talk his way out of this.

These people know the rules.

We'll nail him. You were interrupted.

Of course there’s no doubt that
Jewish blood even that of half-Jews

must be separated from the
German bloodstream, but

Not only out of the German bloodstream,
but the European as wall.

I understand that, but I can only
speak of the mixed races in the Reich.

What is decided here will
apply abroad as well.

Not just a handful of Jews but
a six-figure number. - If not more.

That would seriously
affect transport planning.

I don't know what the other
countries will do, but

I can't say to the
Romanians and Bulgarians:

“Children, adopt our Jewish
laws but open for discussion."

You just can’t do it like that.

Our concept of a Jew
must apply everywhere.

In the East,
records are insufficient to determine

who's a Jew or who's a half-Jew.

If we don't like someone’s nose,
that's record enough.

A rather coarse method, don't you think?
- Let the chips fall.

If need be, I can always call
upon our experts. - At your service.

The reorganization of this area
will run along different lines.

We will not bestow better
treatment on mongrels

and other subhumans,
than on these eleven million.

We need tough,
determined action, not kid gloves.

Sitting here comfortably
behind the lines

we don't have the
right to act like heroes.

Very correct.
- Nor guardian angels.

Continue your private war later.

I must voice a protest
on behalf of my office.

The man makes the office.
- I’m obliged to perform my duties correctly.

It’s not that I’m a Jew-lover.

Is that clear?
- You’re not on trial.

I would like to point out
that half-Jews by blood

are already classified
by the Nuremberg Laws.

If they have Jewish features, they
are regarded as full Jews.

Or if they are practicing Jews
have a full-Jewish spouse.

So many half-Jews have
already been taken care of.

We taken care.
- Around 8,000.

In the Reich?
- Including Austria and the protectorate.

Then they're available
for the final solution.

Eight trains full.
- 8,000. And 72,000 half-Jews.

So 72,000 minus 8,000 leaves 64,000.

Among them, there are 45,000 men
fit for service - three divisions.

You can't intend to
win the war with them.

it wasn’t my idea to
send them to the front.

How many of them are in the army?
- Maybe 10,000.

That makes 54,000. - Many of them
were drafted for armament work.

How much?
- About 20,000. - 34,000.

Minus the 10,000 who would be sent
to the old-age ghetto. - 24,000.

Old-age ghetto?
What about young women and children?

24,000 half-breeds left to be discussed.

Threw them in with full Jews.
- With Europe’s half-Jews.

Europe, that's your business then.

I only represent the
Ministry of the Interior.

But the 24,000 that’s your concern.

Laws are easy to write. But the
consequences must be considered, too.

For God's sake,
can't one get a glass of water?

If people could only see this.

In the Führers state,
you give an order and it's done!

Be nice if it were like that.
We’re sitting here, quibbling

while our men are being killed by
those Jewish Bolsheviks. Incredible.

Don’t forget there are highly
honored half-Jews on our side...

I haven’t forgotten them.
I just don’t want them.

The Iron Cross given to vermin!
Disgusting!

They’re also in the Officers' Corps.
- Half-Jews?

With the Führer's approval.
And equal to Reich Germans.

Fairy tales. Otherwise I'd have known.

No point in publicizing these things.

All right. But the other 24,000?

Ask our man in charge
of half-Jewish workers.

Any special complaints?

No. Their overall
behavior is satisfactory.

Of course.
Otherwise, they'd lose their heads.

It’s the German blood asserting itself
in the half-Jew that makes him valuable.

In theory, true.
- And there's another thing -

Every half-Jew has a full Aryan lineage.

Relatives and friends in
pure-blooded German circles.

Thousands would be affected.

It could cause further unrest
like we had when the Führer

started the euthanasia program.
- Anything can be dramatized.

Really?
How do you suppose a soldier feels

coming home and seeing Eichmann's
trains at the station..

taking his half-Jewish relatives
to the East. Where to? Why?

And every half-Jew

half the blood lost is German blood.

Or half-Jewish,
depending on how you look at it.

To the pessimist,
the glass is half empty.

To the optimist, it’s half full.
You are an optimist.

I value German blood.
I always warned the Germans

against providing the
enemy with good bloodlines.

Blood able to produce great individuals
on the other side would create —

Other side? - Individuals who,
through German blood, would inherit

valuable characteristics...
- What?

...which the enemies of German
blood could use to their benefit.

Jewish intelligence and education

combined with Germanic
genetic superiority

could make the Jew a born leader.

Plase calm!
- And you can’t ignore European opinion!

You don’t say!
- You said the solution to these questions

must be consistent.
- Absolutely. - The foreign half-Jews

uncounted carriers of German blood

would be taken from our control

even compelled to fight against us.

Please, Gentelmen.

I agree that blood is important.
But to whom?

It should be clear by
now what we mean

by the New Order of
Europe and final solution.

Exactly. - I clearly realize
what is meant, Gruppenführer.

The screw has been steadily tightening
since the first Nuremberg Law

when forced Jews to hand over
their property and emigrate

when we executed them in masses.

We now have enough experience
for the final solution.

I hardly imagine we are going to send
those 11 million to a holiday resort.

I’d be blind not to see
the writing on the wall.

Who do you think I am?

I repeat once again,
you are not on trial.

I hope you won’t think me a defeatist

if I draw your attention
to the following facts:

We are still at war with Russia.
England is no defeated;

America is not yet on the scene. Whole
areas of Europe seem to be slipping away.

Resistance groups are
spawning everywhere.

All this is an attraction to those
we act against - the half Jews.

They won't escape.
We'll keep them under our thumb.

After victory, our first demand
will be to round up every Jew

and if we decide,
every half-Jew from both hemispheres.

Just as this war became a world war

the final solution
will also be worldwide.

Do you have an alternative?
What do you propose?

I propose we do nothing.

The laws allow half-Jews
marry only Aryans.

Within two generations

half Jews will be
absorbed into the population.

We have orders to carry
out a total purge.

Well, there’s one more possibility.

Sterilization.

That’s been proposed in this draft.
Under IV:

“Those to be exempt
from evacuation, i.e

those married to pure-blooded Germans
and those with exemption status

are to be made infertile so
they will produce no offspring."

That isn't anything new. We've heard
it before. - You don't understand.

I’m talking about sterilizing all
half-Jews, not just the favored ones.

Compulsory collective sterilization.

Why didn't you say so
in the first place?

I’m glad you’re not against the
liquidation of the people of Judah

and their watered-down offspring.
- Sterilization. I like it.

As a people, they'd be finished,
but as a work force

they'd be available for a while.

That would mean thousands of sick days.

Our hospitals are already filled with
the wounded. And don’t forget the costs!

I’ve heard it can be done with X-rays as
well. - Experiments in concentration camps.

One could order these Jewish
gene-carriers to a special office.

They step up to a desk
with a hidden apparatus

and while someone talks to them,
it’s done. No fuss.

We should discuss it'
with the Reich Health Minister.

We won’t solve the problem
of the half-Jew today.

Don’t forget the quarter
Jews and mixed marriages.

I want a transfer to the front.
I can’t take any more of this.

Why do we give preferential
treatment to Jews married to Aryans?

Comrade Streicher was right.

A vagina defiled by Jewish
sperm will always be a cesspool.

And no German broom can sweep it clean.

I suggest representatives
of our various agencies

continue the matter at a lower level.

Obersturmbannführer Eichmann will
contact your subordinate officers.

And send the Chancellor's
Office a report of all opinions.

If no agreement is reached

I will obtain a decision from
the highest authority. Questions?

I've already pointed out the problem:

2,5 million Polish ghetto Jews.
Disease, crime.

The Polish economy is threatened.

Can't we attend to our Jews first?
Few transport problems.

Certainly. Polish Jews first. The
Governor General will be pleased.

We must try to avoid alarming
the Polish population.

It’s a matter of camouflage and speed.
We'll do a good job.

The minutes? - They will go out
to you today. Your assignment...

May I speak with you later?
- Yes.

Gentlemen,
I’ll see you in Prinz-Albrecht Strasse.

I’d like once again your
guarantee of full support

in implementing the final solution.
That is all. Thank you.

BERLIN. Final Solution Conference.

Obergruppenführer?
- Yes, please? - Excuse me.

You said Jews not exempted by work
are subject to special treatment.

Yes, of course.
- Now, during wartime, that would be

eleven, twenty-two,
maybe 33 million rounds of ammunition.

There are other methods.
More elegant ones. More humane ones.

Read Mein Kampf, page 772. Learn to
take the Führer at his word. Period.

What did the Führer write?
- It is referred to frequently.

He says It would be best to simply

use poison gas on the Hebrews.
- Gas?

I would like to be
relieved of my duties.

I can serve my country
better with a rifle.

I’ll submit my resignation through
you to the Führer Will that work?

Perhaps.
- Thank you.

We’re both dedicated
National Socialists

but some things are better left
to the younger generation. - Pehaps.

B, as in Bertha.
- Heil Hitler! - Yes, Bertha.

3,000 unfit for work!

You heard what I said, idiot!
Over and out.

I can’t get Riga, sir. - Nonsense,
my dear. Those assholes are asleep.

Thank you.
- You smoke, herr Obergruppenführer?

With cognak, as an exception,
for today's celebration.

Give me a draft of the minutes this
afternoon. - Yes, herr Obergruppenführer.

Be as clear as necessary
and as vague as possible.

May I ask what should be clear?

Our authority. That's the main thing.

Understood, Obergruppenführer.

You’re in high spirits.
Any special reason?

As the confidential liaison
in our Operations Center

Now I see approval

official approval at
the very highest levels

even in the civil administration.

It gives me a feeling
of real satisfaction.

Comrade Eichmann has feelings.

Müller. Wait a minute, Miss.

It’s time you operators
learn the proper titles.

It’s not “Himmler’s Office.
" “Office of the Reichsführer-SS."

The Reichsführer himself for Heydrich?

Heydrich. The conference just ended.

Our authority was recognized
without reservation

by the departments
that had been uncertain.

Thank you very much Herr Reichsführer.
Heil Hitler.

Please, gentelmen.

Our goal for today has been reached.

The bureaucrats are now with us,
like SS and the Party.

There’s no more flirting with
the West. No turning back now.

With the Führer to the final victory
or to death. Prosit, gentelmen!

Gentelmen, Heil Hitler!
- Heil Hitler!

We’ll see each other in Prague?

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It was worth coming to Berlin after all.

What does he do out there?
Stand guard, or just eat?

Sniffs out hiding places. They sneak
into chimneys hide in latrines

under floorboards. Hasso finds
them all. A hand grenade boom!

THE WANNSEE KONFERENCE

REINHARD HEYDRICH Deputy Reich
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

Considered the likely successor to Hitler.
Assassinated May, 1942, by Czech Resistance.

As revenge, Hitler executed all the
inhabitants of the village of Lidice.

ADOLF EICHMANN Head of the
Jewish Department of the Gestapo,

fried and hanged in Jerusalem in May,
1962.

ROLAND FREISLER State Secretary
of the Reich Ministry of justice.

Died in his courtroom during
an air raid In February, 1945.

WILHELM STUCKART State Secretary
of the Ministry of the Interior.

Only defendant tried at Nuremberg
for attending the Wannsee Conference

sentenced to three years,
he was released early.

:) Historical Advisor SHLOMO ARONSON,
University of Jerusalem.