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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.

Top Cast

  • Philipp Schepmann

    Philipp Schepmann

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Margot Friedländer

    Margot Friedländer

    Self - Interviewee

  • Götz Aly

    Götz Aly

    Self - Interviewee

  • Robert Gerwarth

    Robert Gerwarth

    Self - Interviewee

  • Peter Klein

    Peter Klein

    Self - Interviewee

  • Martin Kröger

    Martin Kröger

    Self - Interviewee

  • Martin Cüppers

    Martin Cüppers

    Self - Interviewee

  • Barbara Schieb

    Barbara Schieb

    Self - Interviewee

  • Marcus Gryglewski

    Marcus Gryglewski

    Self - Interviewee

Overview

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.

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