The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
It was arguably the deadliest conference in human history. The topic: plans to murder 11 million Jews in Europe. The participants were not psychopaths, but educated men from the SS, police, administration and ministries. The invitation to the meeting at Wannsee came from Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office. The Wehrmacht's campaigns of conquest in Eastern Europe marked the beginning of the systematic murder of Jews in Poland and the Soviet Union. In mid-September 1941, Hitler made the decision to deport all Jews from Germany to the East. Although there had been transports before, Hitler's order represented a further escalation in the murderous decision-making process. Persecution and discrimination had been part of everyday life since 1933. But as a result, the living conditions for the Jews in the Third Reich became even more difficult, among them the Berlin Jew Margot Friedländer, born in 1921, and the Chotzen family.
Directed by Jörg Müllner · Written by Jörg Müllner
Cast
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Philipp Schepmann Self - Narrator (voice) -
Margot Friedländer Self - Interviewee -
Götz Aly Self - Interviewee - Robert Gerwarth Self - Interviewee
- Peter Klein Self - Interviewee
- Martin Kröger Self - Interviewee
- Martin Cüppers Self - Interviewee
- Barbara Schieb Self - Interviewee
- Marcus Gryglewski Self - Interviewee
- Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann Self - Interviewee
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Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) -
Hermann Göring Self (archive footage)
Make it a double feature
The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary
The Neanderthal in Us
Both from Jörg Müllner.
