Reinhard Heydrich Arrives - Conspiracy
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In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) and his associate, Lt. Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) call the meeting to discuss the "evacuation" of Germany's Jews and other undesirables, a code word for their extermination in concentration camps. To begin this Final Solution, they must change the mind of a small group of men opposed to the idea, led by Chancellor Kritzinger (David Threlfall).
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That is the most British German cast I have ever witnessed.
isnt it?
Kenneth Branagh is good in any role....I,m just a totally biased Irishman from Northern Ireland
The cast is amazing.
Have you seen "The Passage"? Malcolm McDowell doesn't even bother to change his accent to play the evil SS guy.
Lol
It's so eerie how much this sounds like a normal business meeting.
That is the core of the film, industrialiced genocide
Especially the introductions around the table
"The Fuhrer has decided to round up all the Jews and kill them. All of them."
Transport Minister: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY TRAINS THAT WILL TAKE?!?!
Armaments Minister: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY BULLETS THAT WILL TAKE?!?!
Food Minister: (throws up on himself)
Did it ever occur to you, that this movie script might be based on a fake transcript of a mediocre meeting that had not much to do with an alleged plan to "kill them all"? Talk about a conspiracy theory...
@@Guido_XL I like how I can't make a lighthearted joke without my post getting insta-killed, but you can go full Holocaust denial and nothing happens.
UA-cam is the Marxist moron future for this world.
Loki, radio operator of fhe Reich
Didn't even realize it was him lol
😅 kkkkkkk AVT feelings
Loki who ? what minutes ?
Always a prankster lol
@@henryalugoro9049 first six seconds. the radio operator is Tom Hiddelston
Over half of those present were educated to Doctorate level. They weren't just ordinary government officials.
They ask during the movie who is a lawyer in the room and like the majority of the room raises their hand. And the fat guy goes oh god it's worse than I thought.
Some of the Einsatzgruppen mass-killers were economists, lawyers, architects... . Education doesn't guarantee good character.
And yet they were responsible for the most horrific crimes leading to the Holocaust. Mass murder on an industrial scale. Many of the effects are still being felt today. What makes it truly horrific is that they were not sociopaths or monsters, they were ordinary, normal men with families doing what they thought was their duty.
Academics were overepresented in the Nazi party compared to their percentage of the population.
Exactly.
"We control events better...when we control....opinion."- Reinhard Heydrich-
Remember this...when our Governments are communicating with us.
repeat a lie 10000 times and it will be perceived as truth...goering. also, don't forget operation paperclip and how many SS personnel joined branches of the US government. truth is never black and white but in multiple shades of grey
Your opinion can only be controlled when you have a flawed or missing epistemology. The direction from which the attempted control emanates is irrelevant.
you can see here that the jews forged teh protocols
Even if Heydrich would have said something like this: would it be so exclusively associated with the Third Reich, as this statement seems to suggest? Controlling public sentiments is exactly the purpose of any marketing strategy, as well as political effort. It's nothing shocking that we would not have heard before. Deceiving the masses to comply is as old as the masses being within reach of political rule. Unless individuals pay attention and try to think for themselves, that is. That is not something typical for the Third Reich at all.
Germany suffered immensely from the results of WWI. The Weimar Republic was not really offering any solace. There was bound to happen something as a reaction, whether it became the Third Reich or something else.
All that talk about Hitler's alleged demonic talent to lure the people into war is simply the result of anti-German propaganda, which also emanated from Germans themselves, by the way. Hitler was not only facing foreign countries, but also domestic opposition. Propaganda was considered to be a necessary instrument, not only by the Nazis. There was a reason for their rage against F.D. Roosevelt, who intensified the conditions in Europe that enabled the war in the first place.
@@Guido_XL I don't think Heydrich is saying it's unique to the Third Reich at all. Really, I find it more sobering to recognize that the Nazis were not a uniquely evil group. Ironically, Stuckert's rant later on about "the reality of the Jew" applies here--treating Hitler as some kind of supervillain does a grave disservice to history, and absolves us as humans of responsibility to examine the social factors that allow, or even lead to, genocide.
This movie is far more terrifying than any slasher or paranormal horror film because it is true! The calm decision making and the matter of fact way they discuss genocide creates a level of horror so high due tothe presentation of the depths of evil man can sink too and be fine with it. You can walk out at 5he end of Halloween and laugh about it being so over the top. This movie leaves you stunned.
true, at least until now when the Global elite along with our present administration are followoing through with plans to destroy America and reverse racism... it's all coming back, people - this time, it is the white that is in their sites.
They had this entire movie in a one off scene in The Zone of Interest in my opinion both movies compliment themselves in sheer terror and heart stopping nightmare fuel
@@PuppetierMaster yes, The Zone of Interest is a horrifying film, but not in the way that word usually means.
The most horrifying thing about this movie... Those who seem level headed were in favor of purging and or starilizng a group of people.
Just think, sixty years before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the most horrific story that could make Freddy Krueger shudder, was happening in America.
Rolling up in the snow with the top down like a straight gangster...lol...
I have been to this villa in Winter and it is bitterly cold there. It was part of a school trip, since in Germany we are taught about the holocaust for obvious reasons. I mean you are already depressed, because you learn about the crimes of your forefathers essentially and then you are freezing all day long. In short, I'd never have the top down in those weather conditions. I'd have the heater on the highest setting and still would be sitting on my hands.
@@Melior_Traiano not all our forefathers took part in those crimes... it was actually a minority... The majority did the small things that helped more indirectly... like baking bread, repairing tanks, driving fuel trucks... all those things that kept the Reich alive.
Like today people in countries that are considered hostile...
@@oliveryt7168 I know. My grandfather fought in WWII and he was a regular soldier, i.e. Heer and not Waffen-SS.
@@Melior_Traiano you’re so lucky. Mine worked at Nintendo.
@Melior_Traiano Yet Germany prior; Namibia and subsequently aiding and abetting the j£wi$h onslaught in Gaza, never learns its lesson!
"The Wannsee Conference" 1984 is even more chilling than this movie. The only dialogue spoken is taken directly from the secretary's transcripts. It is prime example of the phrase "The Banality of Evil".
Thank you for the reference:
ua-cam.com/video/Lp0QrsWmX7U/v-deo.html
In the 1983 documentary "Schindler, the true story" there is a testimony from a Jewish survivor who reported: "A truck arrived at Auschwitz full of bodies and among the bodies there was a boy still alive. We asked one of the German guards to shoot on the child to prevent him from being buried alive. The guard ordered us to throw them all in the ditch and pour gasoline on them and set them on fire. The boy was still alive."
I just watch Conspiracy on HBO, the ideal that it really happen is wild, I heard people that true darkness was in control in europe during that time and they was right.
So did they invade Russia, just to get at the Russian Jews or as they said Israelites?
That is the only one that should be seen. This British nonsense is embarrasing.
@@davidbastardo4154yet went out of your way to watch it 😂
In my opinion one of the best movies ever made and horrifying because;
1. It’s historically accurate and,
2. It shows how a few madmen can destroy us all.
A few mad men and a willing population.
Or compliant. It was easy to be condemned by others to the Gestapo. That's the psychosis of fascism.
This movie and Der Untergang (Downfall) are the two best movies ever made about the NSDAP...
3. The few madmen weren't even mad. They were just ordinary government officials trying to maintain/improve their social standing. Human true nature is the most horrifying thing.
@@acharat6 Maybe some of them were "just ordinary government officials", but Heydrich was most certainly not.
Heydrich did never smile that much. Fact from his widow!!
Heydrich was a total nut ball.
I am always suspicious about the accuracy of these films. There are several details that go unnoticed by the team.
Was Heydrich that blonde?
@@heatherporterfield7343 brave as hell
@@galenhof3371yes but that is about the only thing they got right regarding the look
Watch this on a regular basis.The cast were brilliant.What matters is the content what happened.
Muller's tunic is incorrect. He introduces himself as Major General, but his tunic carries the insignia of a brigadier general.
That’s one hell of a cast
It really is an impressive collection of contemporary British actors (plus Tucci, who is a complete Anglophile!!)
This is one of my favorite movies. I think that Kenneth Branagh played a great Heydrich, and Stanley Tucci chilled me to the bone with his performance of Eichmann.
You scare easily, huh?
@@user-bd3lj2hy1v We're all very impressed that Tucci's performance didn't chill you. You must be a brave warrior, with many feats to his name. Good of you to grace us with your presence in the UA-cam comments section.
Brannagh plays a great everything!
@@aquaticaustralia agreed
Eichmann was a nondescript ,
instantly forgettable nonentity .
If not for the Nazis he's be working in a fishmonger's shop.
Or a vacuum cleaner salesman..?
Stunning reconstruction of one of the most heinous 90 minutes in history. Cast was chosen (mainly) from those with Shakespearean backgrounds in order to maintain the fluidity of the filming and dialogue with as few cuts as possible. Threlfall as Kriztinger, the lone dissenter (of sorts) is outstanding. Anyone else spot a very young Tom Hiddleston?
Yeah, he was the radio operator. Kenneth Branagh as General Heydrich cast Hiddleston as Loki when Branagh directed the first Thor movie.
Also, the actor who played the titanic crewman who shoot himself
@@anthonymarino7718 I couldn't find any record that neither Hiddleston or Branagh were in Titanic?
How do you know that this movie is a "reconstruction" of the actual Wannsee Konferenz? How can you feel so sure that this script reflects the actual notes of that meeting? Well?
@@Guido_XL the meeting was transcribed. There's another movie which uses the actual words.
Branaugh is so good here. Kinda scary how much charisma can allow people to make evil sound natural
Well I just don't know about these guys. Seems like they are up to something.
This is the most interesting assortment of actors I have ever seen in such a short clip.
Kenneth Branagh, who apparently likes to play Nazi generals often, Stanley Tucci, a seven year old Tom Hiddleston, Ser Allister from game of thrones, the butler from Downton Abbey, Baron Harkonnen
A Kingsman too.
What? Where is Jim Carter and Stellan Skarsgard in this...?
I see Mr. Gibbs tho :D
You didn't notice Frank Gallagher!
And 007's psychologist from Skyfall (the general named Hoffman)
Stellan Skarsgard is not in this.
'We control events better when we control opinion.' Damn that's chillingly relevant.
The Maga movement copies the NSDAP playbook to the letter and people are too stupid today to catch on.
the irony.... the same thing the zionists are doing now. they became what they loathed. on innocent farmers on their own land. The palestinians are the most wholesome people on the planet. tough!!! but wholesome. All they did was preserve the holy city and farm. Muslim, Christin or jewish... it didn't matter... they are a simple people who were greatfull to be on the land. anyone waiving a white flag was more than welcome.
The allies only learned about the Wanssee Conference in 1947, when they found one of the shown handouts in the ministry archives. By that time however, half of the attendants were alredy dead.
The Ministry of Foreign affairs had a briefing of the conference in it´s archives. That was the only copy that survived.
was that when they discovered the shrunken heads and the lampshades made of skin?
so this is what professor Lockhart got upto after Hogwarts
You have to understand he lost his memory.
So everything is basically Ron Weasley fault.
What the hell.... no way....
@@Freedom9X Weasley! Stand!
@@bbenjoe I tell you, Ron bullied that poor men, into that awful chamber and after he lost his memory, he slapped him in the head with a rock.
Eichmann went on to become the risk management officer for a Wall Street investment firm before procuring his final job as Caesar Flickerman. That must be one messed up resume.
Highly recommend this film to anyone who hasn't seen it yet
Haven’t seen it. Is it historical accurate?
@@Chargee_If you believe the story of the Wannsee Conference this film is 75-80% accurate.
@@michaelalek6490
So, in other words, it is all made-up kosher propaganda. That is more or less what I expected. Got it.
@@michaelalek6490 What do you mean by "if you believe" ? It's a fact.
@@Chargee_ The film is based on surviving transcripts taken by the stenographer at the actual meeting so it's accurate. Possibly the best war drama ever made.
WAAYY underrated movie because its just dialogue.
"At the risk of sounding like our first day at summer camp..."
what a way to do character exposition.
"Hello muddah
Hello faddah
Here I am at
Camp Granada..."
Reinhard Heydrich: "So to begin, we have a storage problem in Germany for these Jews." He makes that statement sound so casual like he just discovered a fly in his wine. Chills! Kenneth Branagh is such an excellent actor.
Utterly chilling in its mudanity. As a film I've not seen yet I must, what an awesome cast!
He was the meanest soldier I’ve ever known of. BUT MAN I DIG HIS UNIFORM
He was not a soldier, in spite of the uniform. He was a desk bound butcher.
He was buried in it
Yep, designed by Hugo Boss. Every time I slip on a pair of his brand of shoes, I feel there's a little "jackboot" in it's soles lol
Let me guess, you're the type of weird guy that bought a Nazi uniform on Ebay and parade around with it secretly in your home and admire yourself in the mirror often?
@@ShamileII That old story? Hugo Boss was a minor league tailor who had a miltary contract to supply shirts and uniforms.
Karl Diebitsch and Walter Henk designed the uniforms.
Tucci was great in this film.
He got a Golden Globe for it
Can't believe I'm bothering but continuity error ... 0:16 the car has a European oval sticker for "D" for Deutschland, by 0:30 the sticker is gone.
Ja. Ze sticker vos zent to ze front fo re-education
The manufacturer promised Dis was a Thousand Year Sticker, Ja!
Heydrich arrived in a Fieseler Storch plane that had swastikas on the wings, instead of the obligatory 'crosses'. Only pre-war Latvia used the 'Nazi' style of the swastika on the wings of its planes (and those markings preceeded Hitler's regime).
@@None-zc5vgDidn’t the Finnish military use the swastika too? They might even still use it. I’m sure Dr Mark Felton covered it recently.
@@None-zc5vgnot Latvia. Finland
A very underrated movie
3:15 Alliser Thorne
That’s before he got captured and charged with war crimes and sent to the wall
This movie is so good that I watched it six times and it never gets old. The script is so well written that I'm continually finding insightful moments and subtle touches, throughout. Every actor was EXCELLENT, especially a frighteningly good Ken Branaugh. This is a story that truly needs to be told, unique in its subject, scope... and terror.
Have you ever seen the 1984 German film Die Wannseekonferenz? It's on UA-cam, and it's darn good hearing it in actual German, even if you have to read the subtitles.
@0:42 this actor was in Valkyrie, he played a German general in that one if I recall.
Kenneth Brannagh played Treschov the chief of staff of army group Center. He was the soul of german resistance, and the main force behind any assasination attempt towards Hitler. He said that they had to assasinate him at any cost.
Even if it failed, "it would show the world that many germans were horrified of the crimes commited by the nazis, and a group gathered enough courage ot act. "
Multiple people from this film were also in Valkyrie.
Kenneth Branagh
Kevin McNally
Ian Mcneice
Florian Panzner
This is a stunningly chilling piece of cinema. The cast is outstanding! 👏
What a cast! So much talent
Tremendous cast. Wow.
Is that Tom Hiddleston? On the radio?
Yup
Before he was old enough to shave... apparently. 😉
Absolutely and terrterrifyingly great movie. Fantastic cast and atention to details.
This movie perfectly nailed what the "Wannseekonferenz" was about. As a German I must admit that this British-American production works so much better than the various efforts made by German movie productions.
I'd imagine for the Germans, who are already iffy enough about this particular era, trying to make a movie around or set during was always gonna be a "tricky" affair. Not disagreeing with what you said, just not to surprised.
This is an incredible movie. The acting is superb. I read that most/ all actors had acted in Shakespeare plays, thus the longer than normal dialog and scenes. Then to think that the human condition sunk to such immorality to achieve its goals. This vs. Band of Brothers. Who is good and who is evil?
Reinhard Heydrich was a perfect general officer: commanding, brilliant, competent, and cultured. A great generals job requires him to wade in blood and be a little bit sociopathic. Heydrich was beyond sociopathy and a complete monster. General Eisenhower, for example, had all of these qualities but he knew where to draw the line.
Where? The Rheinlager camps?
Arguably one of the best recent British casts to be on film. This movie is beyond scary. It was all based on one of the surviving notes of this meeting. The non-nonchalant delivery of what they are going to do with the exception of a couple of them is like serial killers casually speaking about their marks.
Meeting of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University?
And RTEH's whip was a Maybach...saaaawweeeeet!
Stanley Tucci😂😂😂
Anyone watching Band of Brothers should watch this before the episode "Why we fight"... this film ties in perfectly, and HORRIFYINGLY.
In July of 2019 The Wife set us up with the Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers tour. Travel was on a very comfy, well appointed coach. Some of the driving segments could be long and as every seat had view of video screens they would show various episodes of BoB as well as a couple movies. This was one of them.
RACIST
So what
My great uncle knew Heydrich. He always said what a fine gentleman he was.
That’s what made him so scary. He wasn’t a Brute. He wasn’t a monster. He was terrifyingly human.
One of the best Kenneth Branagh acting.
I've been trying to find this movie on DVD for years
At 0.06 is that Tom Hiddleston ? Certainly looks like him, those blue eyes, they've all got to start somewhere. This telling of the Wannassee meeting is quite chilling because they treated it like a business meeting.
Thats him.
To see men sit around and calmly discuss a crime against humanity. Just awful.
brilliant movie
A group of men deciding on the dark fate of millions!!
...like the international bankers
Absolutely BRILLIANT film
Branagh as Heydrich is like Kevin Hart playing Godzilla.
It pains me something so evil. Has to be so stylish.
Hey Johnny, idk if you gonna see this but i believe theres a channel out there copying your style of thumbnails, the channel name is Willy Cuz War Films
First! Thank you for sharing this.
2:23 Isn't that Posca from Rome HBO series?
and also the fat news announcer guy from Rome at 1:59
I didn't realize Loki was in the SS.
Not surprising.
This is like a David Mamet play.
Stanley Tucci's last dialogue at the end lingers with me after these years.
As an estranged son, I've often wondered how my paternal breeder's death would impact me. Will I gain ultimate closure or somehow implode from no longer having someone to hate. I guess only time will tell
Young Tom Hiddleston rocking the radio
Kenneth Branagh is masterful as Heydrich. charming, personable, chilling and horrifying all at once.
I don't think I've ever seen a movie where I immediately recognize almost everyone on screen based on their other films.
Wannsee Conference - a heinous crime, a horror unknown to the world until now, dressed in smooth words. In Polish this movie's title is "Final solution", better describing the nature of this meeting
There is a German version of the Wannsee Conference made long ago for German TV. It is also well worth watching.
Recently watched that myself, it was so good and I honestly preferred the casting and the acting style to that. This one is too obviously geared towards the mainstream HBO crowd.
Nie przesadzaj, ludobojstwo Ormian nie bylo mniej heinous, a obecnie zydki morduja Palestynczykow w rownie okrutny sposob.
I think the English title is quite good, as the film portrays the conference as every business meeting you've ever been to, so that all those horrors become just a bit of administrative organisation, and so it becomes even more horrific.
Chuy z zydami - w Miechowie moj dziadek widzial jak witali wkraczajacy Wehrmacht kwiatami.
I love Kenneth, but he's far to human to really channel RH. He's excellent, even chilling, but there's still too much soul in his eyes.
The RH was one scary person. Every video I have seen of him is creepy even without audio.
No actor, however skilled, can ever effectively impersonate the truly terrifying original. Those eyes...unforgettable.
Chilling.
At 0:17 we can find the D international sign on the Heydrich's limousine, but at 0:29 the car is without it already...
The nasty thing about Heydrich is that he was only anti-Semitic because that was the way to get ahead. If Hitler had hated tennis players with a passion Heydrich would have had the membership rolls of every club in Germany on his desk in 24 hours.
It’s rumoured he had Jewish blood and his hard core anti semtic views were to cover this fact.
@@ashleyupshall7641 He had no jewish ancestry but he has heavily loaded with slavic and tartar DNA, which made him almost the perfect "Untermensch" in the eyes of the crazy nazi genetists
This is not a sensible comment. I think he genuinely disliked them passionately.
Himmler was the same way. Also Beria on the Russian side.
@@gastonbell108 Nah, Himmler wasn't a cynical careerist, he was 100% cuckoo crazy, neck-deep in ideological zealotry right from the get-go. The guy literally wanted to genetically engineer brown hair away from the German population, ffs.
0:42 I thought that was Major General Henning von Tresckow for a second, nice to see Kenneth Branagh portraying German WWII officers again. Being an SS-Obergruppenführer, he held the same rank as Obergruppenführer John Smith.
Is this the Wannsee Conference ? There is a docu-drama in German made in the 80s that documents the conference as well . There have been at least 2 films about the plot & assassination of Heydrich in Prague
why are they driving a convertible in the snow with the top down?
I think it's supposed to allude to Heydrich's assassination. He was being driven around Prague in an open topped Mercedes-Benz, which I think is the same model of car as seen here. The Typ 320 or the W 142
Because Übermensch don't feel the cold!
So you saw Schindler’s List too
It was only a short drive from his plane to the front door.
@@t.wcharles2171The car in this clip is Maybach.
is that loki? lmao that tesseract took him places
I can't get over how bad Henry V turned out...
When will this excellent film be released on Blu Ray...?
Sir Allister Thorne, lead Ranger of Castle Black of the Nights Watch.
Awesome film, brilliantly acted by all (especially Keneth Branagh!) This film should be required watching in schools!
Found the jude.
I see alot of people here from Rome
Norm at his usual spot and Cliff at his.
Fun fact Kenneth Branagh is also the narrator of the walking with trilogy
Reinhard holding everyone up cause he insisted on flying himself to the conference to brag he can pilot planes without formal flight training
He was a Luftwaffe pilot and flew combat missions.
He fought combat missions in the USSR. He was downed behind enemy lines and he managed to get back to german lines. Hitler learned about it and Heidrich was forbidden to fly any more missions
@@luke33luke Hitler looked at the Man with the Iron Heart as the son he never had.
More then a few expected him to be the future Fuhrer.
It's 2024 and history is repeating itself.
Where?
@@daz.6112 You are a human ostrich.
In his antisemetic Fantasy.
@@Lightburg I support the anti-genocide Jews. May God watch over them and protect them as they work to stop the genocide. The six million Jewish martyrs of the genocide would want us to support the anti-genocide Jews, not the pro-genocide Israelis.
Chilling
Sir Alliser Thorne forgot to say he also hold ranks in the Night's Watch.
Alliser Thorne as Roland Freisler, how fitting
Why is Mr Bates there?
he fell on hard times after Downton was sold..
His Aryan Frosted tips look fabulous!
This was an Excellent movie on how the Nazi upper echelon was portrayed. People may hate it but they should learn from History
I need as German the correct uniforms and Ranks for this horrible meet.Heydrich was an Obergruppenführer not an Gruppenführer.
The shoulder insignia is correct, but the lapel insiginia is wrong.
Not an expert on SS uniform insignias, but I do know it was April 1942 that the collar insignia changed. Since this meeting was in January 1942, the actor's uniform for Heydrich appears to be correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel#/media/File:Left_and_right_collar_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel.png
I've never seen a room full of vomit look so stylish.
@@MeColinYouWho LOL!
They'll always tell you what happened but never why
The time George VI, Anthony Snowden, William Murdoch and Alister Thorne all got together to cosplay as Nazis.
As undoubtable good the actors are, it remains a patina of british coolness and nobility. The german cast of the original from 1985, also available here with subtitles, together with german language fits better.
The SS spoke fluent British English.
"Oh, not that fucking Four Year Plan again!" Klopfer's line kills me every time.
What movie is this?
Apparently, even with his gifted acting skills, Kenneth Brannagh says about his role that he found it.. very, very difficult to play. Due to the fact he was portraying one of the most cold blooded men ever to have lived. Heydrich WAS pure evil. Not being at all bothered about the murder of millions of innocent kids, disabled, Ederly, sick ect.
I can't imagine the real Heydrich turning on the charm like this... he seemed more of a straight-up psychopath.
Actually he could be very charming when he wanted to be - mostly with the ladies or people he had to keep on the right side of.
There is a common misconception that psychopaths are cold to other people - this is not always the case. Psychopaths can use superficial charm in order to manipulate others but the facade drops if they feel they don’t benefit from pretending…
@@Rendell001 Also played the 🎻 very well🎶🎶
a bone chilling movie without a single piece of violence on screen.
1:37 Why does the Herr Reichprotektor remove his watch?
This movie is historically inaccurate in so many ways. Here are a few:
1.) Heydrich was a cruel man, but he needed the cooperation of the other departments. Bullying Stuckart and the interior ministry into submission would alienate and antagonize the other institutions. The SS/Gestapo could not deal with the "Endlösung" on their own, they depended on every institution's support, so Heydrich was not in a position of demanding or ordering, but more like requesting.
2.) Stuckart raising valid objections may have been a pain in the ass for Heydrich and they may have had a conversation in private during a break. Yet it is very unlikely, that Heydrich threatened Stuckart with anything. Stuckart was an esteemed Nazi party man with lots of merits and an assistant to Himmler. Threatening him would cause turmoil in the Nazi administration and that is something you want to avoid during war time. It is more likely that Heydrich promised Stuckard concessions.
3.) Everbody with an ounce of history knowledge knows that Heydrich was not blonde. Making him blond to fit the aryan cliche is ridiculous at best. None of the higher nazis fit that aryan look.
4.) Eichmann was not the organisator of that meeting, Gestapo-Müller was.
5.) Most of the participants were bureaucrats defending their turf. That is the real monstrosity, the banality of evil.
If you want are more accurate and gripping version, watch the german version
"Die Wannsee Conference" (1984) ua-cam.com/video/i9Ug_MXToEE/v-deo.html
or
"the conference (2022)"
In reference to your point no. 5: that was how the Nazi government operated. This was by design. One of the ways Hitler maintained his power was to give subordinates overlapping areas of responsibility, which caused them to vie with each other for power and influence -- this kept them busy intriguing against each other, and therefore too busy with that to intrigue against him. It also fit perfectly with the social Darwinist aspect of Nazi ideology: Hitler believed that those who prevailed in this struggle would be the best fitted to wield power and run the government.
The problem with this scheme is obvious: it leads to a lot of wasteful duplication of effort by competing government bureaus, and bureaucrats frustrating each other's efforts as they protected their own little empires. The Wannsee Conference was meant to decisively stop that wasteful infighting in this case, and get everyone on the same page for once. Eliminating the Jews was the _ne plus ultra_ of Nazi ideology and policy, they prioritized it even when they desperately needed the resources they were allocating to it to stave off certain defeat.
Some people misunderstand the Wannsee Conference as the event at which the decision to exterminate the Jews was finally taken. It wasn't that at all; it was the event at which the Nazi government ensured that a decision that had long since been taken was smoothly and efficiently implemented. That's why all the attendees were the upper echelon of Germany's mid-level bureaucrats instead of Nazi bigwigs.
Reading your comment and I start to think that this film is not reliable.
Thanks for this - I'm going to follow your information up. One of my own personal distastes are dramatisatons of history that alter core facts to make a 'better' story. I'm OK with adaptations of fiction that have some editing or alteration IF the decisions are artistically sound, i.e "Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep" --> "Blade Runner". I also think something that is obviously satire, a comedy etc. is fine - ie it should be obvious there was no Brian of Nazereth - but I dislike the idea of telling people in a serious presentation history went one way when it actually went another in the manner you describe above because some artistic perogative overrides accuracy. It's irresponsible. Take me for example - I'm pretty well educated, a good critical thinker and very media literate - but if I had never read your comment just now, I would have come away totally assuming that the clip above was at least fairly accurate. There's an amazing cast and many of the actors have very strong reputations. I was going to get my hands on a copy of the film, watch it all the way through and assumed alongside being entertained that I would have had some form of soft education on this critically important subject. But by sheer fluke you shared your more informed insights, I saw them, and I know better.
German version is cringe af
"Everbody [sic] with an ounce of history [sic] knowledge knows that Heydrich was not blonde." Heydrich's derogatory nickname was "The Blonde Beast." Look it up. You really are an excellent example of the banality of stupidity.
There is a much older german version about this conference in youtube is more accurate in accent because is in german and more historically accurate is base upon the secretary dictade that whe wrote in the conference and appears in the movie too an a charachter of his own. In this movie the secretary is an ss officer in reality it was a women and the the director of the reichsbank didn't appear altough he was in the conference and had a lot to say i recomended to wacht it is call wansee conference or something like that
Yes...an excellent film, in German with subtitles...."The Wannssee Conference"...I find it more effective, darker & cynical....the German actors were superb....
What appeared in the manuscript had no relevance to the person keeping the minutes because it was personally edited by Eichmann and Heydrich at the conclusion.
I agree - the 1984 version rings truer to me, it’s a lot rowdier and far less self-conscious.