All language subtitles for Conspiracy.2001.WEBRip.x264-ION10

[Chattering]

MALE NARRATOR:
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland
in September, 1939,

starting World War II.

By the winter
of 1942,

his armies were
freezing and starving
in the snows of Russia,

where his best general
had died of a heart attack,

and America
had entered the war.

For the first time,
Hitler's dream
of a German empire

to last a thousand years
was in doubt.

While he hired
and fired generals,

and the winter
grew colder,

15 of his officials

were ordered from
their commands and ministries

to meet in a quiet
lakeside residence

in Wannsee in Berlin,

far from the crisis
at the front.

In two hours,

these men changed
the world forever.

Only one record of what was
said and done here survives

from the wreckage
of what was

the Thousand-Year Reich.

[Airplanes approaching]

How many rolls?

Enough for
4 hours, sir.

Too many.

Two hours' worth
should be sufficient.

[Dishes smashing]

Do we have enough?

How many fell?

I am sure we have
a sizeable inventory, sir.

You are sure
or you know?

I know, sir.

Itemize the cost.
He pays.

Make it a separate
report to me.

And keep him
where I don't see him.

Smile.

It is
a fine day.

Yes, sir.

All right then,
let's look smart.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

No silence in Latvia,
no silence like this.

You're surprised
it's better in Berlin?

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler.

We've met,
colonel?

Indeed we have.

I'm State Secretary
Buhler.

Indeed you are.
I do remember.

Colonel Schongarth.
Sir.

Major Lange.

Heil Hitler.

If there's anything
any of you gentlemen need,

please don't hesitate
to call an orderly or me.

My appreciation to the man
who picked this spot.

That would be
General Heydrich.

Beautiful house,

from a more
elegant time.

Have there been any messages
from Krakow, my office?

No, sir.

So, where
do we go?

The major has come
a long way.

The man
deserves a drink.

This way,
gentlemen.

I'm sure
you'll find the wines,

and, of course,
we are not limited to the wines,
first rate.

MAN:
Yes, the cold
will dry your throat.

MAN:
Drink, a smoke.

Excellent...

Put this
book away.

Sir.

MAN:
It was not built
for this purpose,

not for meetings.

These floors
are not for boots.

It was
a private home?

Private home,
yes.

Whose?

We believe it was
owned by a Jew.

There's some
dispute.

Well, in the SS
we travel deluxe.

MAN:
Always.

Well, we've
earned it surely.

MAN:
Not everyone agrees.

MAN:
Heil Hitler!

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

It's running
like a damn truck.

They claim that they've replaced
all the belts and the plugs,

but it sounds like
a cement mixer.

Can someone
here check?

I can't hear myself
think in there.

Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler.

Ah, the east
is well represented.

And we're
here first.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Meet Major Lange,
a very tired man.

No, please,
I am enjoying
these surroundings.

Where can I find
Colonel Eichmann, please?

Sir, follow me, sir.

[Laughing]

Eichmann?

Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler.

Excuse the
interruption.

Colonel.

My memorandum
of recommendations.

I have here another copy
in the circumstance

General Heydrich would like to
be refreshed of its contents,

for the sake of
maintaining harmony

between the Gestapo
and the foreign office.

Um, that was
my thought.

Yes.

And are there any changes
to the list of the invited?

No.

Oh, so even Dr. Kritzinger
will be here?

Yes.
Yes, well, he will not be happy.

Um, here we are,
and how are you?

Very well,
thank you.

I'll make sure that
the general sees these.

And when will
the general arrive?

He should be
on the ground any moment.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

MAN:
Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler.

MAN:
May I take
your coat, sir?

Your hat?

Neumann, director,
Office of the Four-Year Plan.

Four-Year
Plan, sir?

Oh, yes.
How are you, Neumann?

Well, I'm always surprised
and flattered, Dr. Stuckart,

that you
recognize me.

And I'm always
thanking you for saying so.

Neumann,
director, Office of
the Four-Year Plan.

MAN:
Dr. Stuckart.

Heil Hitler.
Welcome, sir.

Yes, yes, Heil Hitler.
Thank you for the welcome.

General Heydrich not
here yet, I expect.

Am I correct?
Yes, sir.

He loves
a grand entrance, yes?

[Chattering]

MAN:
...running a bank
somewhere by now.

I understand
the purpose,

but no idea what
the man might propose.

What are meetings
about? Power.

No, consolidation
of power, no doubt.

We should
benefit by that.

Kritzinger,
a pleasure.

I'm pleased
you're here.

Morbid curiosity.

We have
settled this question.

So I thought.

What has been discussed
to this moment?

Everything except
the fighting in Moscow.

Oh, I've heard we are
counterattacking.

Richenau's got them
out of the trenches
and on the move.

Richenau
is dead.

Let us not gossip
like maids at the market.

We are stalled for the winter.
Time to face reality.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

So, is Colonel
Eichmann here?

MAN:
Yes, sir.

Tell him
Klopfer has arrived.

And the others?

Neumann, director, Office
of the Four-Year Plan.

For Goring?

For Reichsmarshall Goring,
yes, his office.

And you, sir?
Luther.

And what is
your plan?

Where will we be
in 4 years, do you think?

Living in
the White House?

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Welcome, sir.

You are very well
fixed up here, I think.

Yes, I think
we are.

I'm late because
of a briefing.

We have this general
who is now trying
to capture Moscow,

who has never commanded
one damn brigade.

That is what I've been hearing
and that is why I'm late.

Not at all, sir.

So, is there beer?
Yes.

Er, and where is
the boys' room?

I have been briefed
by the governor general

regarding what concerns,
what anticipations.

That is private.

We will all discover
what new concepts our
SS friends have in mind.

Schongarth!

Not bad
for French.

Neumann,
director,

Office of
the Four-Year Plan.

I'm very pleased
to be here.

Who may I
be speaking to?

It is very, very complex,
these laws.

A lot of time and thought
has been put to them

and some of
these here,

well, you notice
all the SS,

they have little idea
of what is lawful

and no respect
for what they do know.

Oh, certainly
not these gentlemen.

To them, laws
are like ice cream.

Easily
melted.

I suspect--

I suspect that is
why this meeting,

which is under
my department after all,

is being called
by the SS.

Do you know?

Only what
the invitation suggested.

They always
want to meet.

The SS
love to meet,

and they always
want something more.

Though they have
everything.

Has anyone heard anything
remotely optimistic

about the
Moscow assault?

No good news.
Sympathy's all round.

It's cold.

What?

It must
be cold.

MAN:
What've we got, eh?

I see wine,
but, no beer.

And what are these?
Cigar, sir?

Please.

Neumann,

director, Office of
the Four-Year Plan.

Luther...
excuse me.

Sir, this is,
um...

director.

A close associate of
Reichsmarshall Goring.

Neumann, I introduce
Dr. Klopfer.

A close associate
of the brown eminence.

Brown? Excuse me--

I represent
Martin Bormann,

the party chairman
of the Thousand-Year Plan.

Heil Hitler.

Is Dr. Kritzinger here?

Yes,
he is, sir.

That's a relief.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Are they on their way?
Not yet, sir.

Who is late?
We are.

Who is
not here?

General Heydrich, sir.

But he's
on his way.

He will
make his entrance.

Everything is fine.
Everyone's comfortable.

Food, cigars, wine.

MAN:
Colonel.

He's here, sir.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler.
Muller.

Colonel.

I love this house.

Seeing it
from the air,

you can appreciate
the architect.

Are we ready?
Absolutely, sir.

And after the war,
it will be my home.

Marvelous
home, so...

Sir, there have been questions
unrelated about Moscow,

but I think I have
deflected them successfully.

Heil Hitler.
Understood.

If we keep doing this all day,
we will never finish.

With no disrespect
to our Fuhrer,

it is suspended until the
conclusion of business, fine?

MAN: Yes, sir.
Very good.

MAN:
There's wine, sir.

You have all had
what you need?

Well, then let us do
what we are here for,

and refreshments
after?

There will be
a buffet lunch.

Very good...
Dr. Kritzinger.

Important
that you be here,
let us begin.

Our Fuhrer.
How's his mood?

Well, commanding,
of course.

His generals in Russia
are a disgrace.

In calling
this conference--

In a moment,
in a moment.

MAN:
Gentlemen, your places
are identified.

Thank you
all for coming.

Please,
sit down.

I'm sorry that I
held you up a little,

but you had
elegant wine, I'm sure.

And no one there to say
it's too early for that.

Now, are you
all set up?

He's prepared.
Very good. Well then,

at the risk of sounding like
the first day at summer camp,

let us go around the table
and introduce ourselves

for those who
do not know others.

I shall save myself for last
and start with General Muller.

Major General
Heinrich Muller,
SS Gestapo.

Klopfer,
representing
the party,

that is who
I speak for.

I am Kritzinger,
ministerial director
of the Reich Chancellery.

I appreciate being called,
but I wonder why I'm here.

The topic
to be discussed,

the coordination of
the Jewish question,

I believe
was resolved.

With the Fuhrer stating to me
and to my superior general--

It will be.

So...

General Hofmann,

Race and Settlement
Main Office.

We deal with matters
of race and settlement.

Is it me?

Leibbrandt,

the political office
of the ministry

for all we hold and
administer in eastern Poland,

the Baltics,
and in the Soviet Union--

And I am the state secretary
for the ministry as a whole.

Give them
your name.

Meyer, doctor,
sorry.

Stuckart,
Interior Ministry.

Martin Luther,

under secretary
of the Foreign Ministry.

I met almost
everybody.

My name is Neumann,
director,

Office of
the Four-Year Plan.

Lange,

deputy commander
of SS task forces in Latvia,

among other things.

Oh, we all have
other things.

MAN:
I'm Josef Buhler,
secretary of state

of the general government
of German-occupied Poland.

How cold
is it up there?

Better Krakow
than Warsaw.

Now that it is
run by Germans,

you should be spared
those Polish winters.

Not the case.

Schongarth.

SS assigned to
the general government.

Dr. Freisler,
Ministry of Justice.

Also I hold rank
in the storm troopers.

So, that is
who I am.

Adolf Eichmann,
SS Gestapo,

Office of Jewish Affairs
and that should be,

yes,
that's all.

And I am Heydrich,

SS Chief of Reich Security,
Main Office

and Reich Protector
of Bohemia and Moravia.

And welcome.

Now, you have each
been given some papers.

These are
for you alone.

No copies to be made,
not to be seen by others

or discussed with others,
except superiors.

How we deal
with matters here

must be held secret
from our enemies.

We control events better
when we control opinion.

Today, each of us becomes
a bearer of secrets.

And our secretary
will be discreet.

He agrees.
He agrees. Excellent.

Communication between us
after today

will pass in both directions
through Lt. Colonel Eichmann,

acting as my deputy
for all Jewish matters.

He is your
focal point.

So, to begin.

We have a storage problem
in Germany with these Jews

and there have been
conversations
for almost a year now

about this Jew and that Jew
and the complexities
of the law.

And this problem,
as you, I'm sure know,

has tormented us.

As you know, we first undertook
to expel them from all means

by which our people
would have to deal with them.

Every sphere of life
of our German people.

The laws we enacted
at Nuremberg,

and we should all drink
a toast to Dr. Stuckart
for devising them.

Co-author,
modestly.

I am the co-author.

They established
the fundamental legality

for the creation
of a Jew-free society,

a Jew-free economy,
for the world to see.

And we indeed
have eliminated the Jew

from our national life.

Now, more than that,

the Jew himself must be
physically eradicated

from our
living space.

Clarification.

Absolutely,
there will be
a moment for that.

But if I may,
we pursued a vigorous
policy of emigration,

but who would
take more of them?

Who would want them,

was the policy's
ultimate limitation.

Every border in Europe
rejects them

or charges outrageously
to accept them.

America?

Even America,
thank you, yes,

where Jews whisper all the time
in Roosevelt's ear,

still they
turn them away.

Then, in
acquiring Poland,

we acquired
2 1/2 million more.

So, by last July we were met
with a new situation.

We would,
in very short order,

be acquiring
some 5 million Jews

as we conquered Russia.

The dimensions
of this problem

then have magnified
astoundingly,

5 million.

Exactly the problem.
Our ghettos are full--

All those ghettos,
yes, with, um, Polish names,

fully occupied.

But hold for now, please,
if you would.

At that time,
last July,

confronting
this new situation,

Reichsmarshall Goring
prepared a directive.

You have a copy
in your folders.

The operative words,
if you will permit me to read,

"I hereby charge you
with making all
necessary preparations

"in regard to organizational
and financial matters

"for bringing about
a complete solution

"of the Jewish question

in the German sphere
of influence in Europe."

Now, for that I read
the cleansing

of the entire
continent of Europe.

You, you see,
the word "cleansing"--

An accurate word,
I think.

If I may go on,

in the
second paragraph.

"Wherever other governmental
agencies are involved,

these are to
cooperate with you."

I hope,
so on, so on,

"as necessary
for the accomplishment

of the desired solution
of the Jewish question."

So...

this is our mandate,
all of us.

May I say,
in fairness,

the Jewish question
falls within

the responsibilities
of my department--

If you will give me
a moment or two, Dr. Kritzinger,

the document
is in your folder.

Yes, it is
in your folder.

I'm sure it is.

Finally, what has happened since
that directive was written.

Succinctly now.

We are standing still
in Russia.

The Americans
have now joined the war.

Both of these events,

a further drain on
our military, our economy,

our manpower,
our food supply.

We cannot
store these Jews.

Emigration is over

and the inevitable solution
is what we together
at this table

will discuss
this afternoon.

We will go on.

Now, you will
find a document

listing the remaining
Jewish population

by country in Europe

and whatever
the USSR or Russia

calls itself
for the time it has left.

As I mentioned,
emigration policy will stop.

I apologize.

A call for
General Heydrich.

See who it is
and end the calls.

Yes, sir.

We will take
but a moment.

Please sit,
Dr. Kritzinger.

Make us
all comfortable, hmm?

Where is
this going?

Yes, this is
Lieutenant Colonel Eichmann.

Yes, I understand, major,

but the general
has requested to be free
of calls at this time.

If you wish to explain
the matter to me--

yes.

Yes, I'm sure if
you call his office, you--

yes, yes.

Heil Hitler.

This meeting is
not taking place.

You are to take no phone calls
for anyone at this meeting.

Anyone.

Unless
the Fuhrer calls.

And he won't.

Understood?
Sir.

So here is
Field Marshal Reichenau

strapped to a chair

and put, convulsing,
on the plane,

where he dies.

Now, he wanted to retreat
as deeply as Runstedt did,

but Runstedt got his medal
and Reichenau the hereafter.

A Major Schwarzheim

was reluctant
to give me any message.

He does not
appreciate you as I do.

Emigration...

the policy that will
take the place of emigration,

and we have collected
enough practical experience
to do it well,

is evacuation.

Which differs
from emigration
in what way?

Evacuation
to where?

Let us postpone
that question for a while.

To hell, one hopes.
Many already have.

Do they even
have a hell?

They do now.
We provide it.

KRITZINGER;
We have received
assurances

that these Jews are held
in livable conditions.

You are postponing.
That is your prerogative.

Will I have an opportunity
to be heard on this?

On my word of honor.

If I may?

132,000 Jews
left in Germany proper,

Austria, 43,700,

occupied eastern
territories, 420,000,

general government,
2,284,000,

Bialystok, 400,000,

and Moravia,
74,200,

Estonia,
not a one.

The very best thing I have
ever heard about Estonia.

You have this list.
I will not read them all.

Plenty in France,
Romania, England, USSR.

5 million in what is,
or will be soon,

our sphere of control
over 11 million chosen people.

Sir, the changing
definitions--

Yes, go ahead,
thank you.

Except that there
are countries that
define Jewishness non-racially,

merely as
religious practice.

England, America.

Therefore,
by our racial principles,

there may be many additional
uncounted Israelites.

And he speaks Jewish.

No, he does,
he does.

What then
confronts us here,

in open discussion,

which will inform
the choices we must make,

is what to do

to deal with this staggering
number of Jews overwhelming us.

Now, my suggestion is
to take all able-bodied Jews,

separated
according to sex,

to the east to work
in construction units,

specifically
for road building--

KRITZINGER:
Yes, can we be
practical?

You are
hardly describing

the promised livable conditions
for these people.

On the face of it,
your plan--

[Clearing throat]

Excuse me,
does not succeed.

It is, um,
well, fanciful.

You have,
in this collection here

5 million
Russo European Jews,

10% agriculture,
15% urban workers,

tradesmen,
almost 20%,

bureaucrats,
almost 24%,

doctors, writers,
journalists, actors,
and so on...

almost 33%.

Building roads?

75% of
your 5 million

have not picked up anything
heavier than a pencil.

Yes, and most
will be casualties,

eliminated
by natural causes.

We intend
to be complete.

We will comb Europe
from west to east.

Starting with
the protectorates,
Bohemia and Moravia,

we will evacuate
them first.

All to be evacuated Jews,
group by group,

will be sent to,
call them transit ghettos,

and then transported
to the east.

Sir, please.

You want yours first.
I understand.

Let me make my case.
You will be heard.

When in your plan do you
take their women away?

How they love
to make the beast.

Control yourself.

Jews who have
beyond 65 years

will be moved
into old age ghettos,

possibly Theresienstadt
will be chosen,

where they can expire
at their own speed.

We will sweep all severely
wounded Jewish veterans

and those given the highest
military decorations,

the Iron Cross
First Class.

That fine distinction
will be abandoned.

They go, too, into
the old age ghettos

or we will be
drowning in requests

for exemptions
and interventions.

I was referring to
intervention of another kind.

Below the waist.

Oh, this is
all very beguiling,

but when you include privileges
for these Jews or those Jews,

the party chancellery sees
its interests a certain way,

and Martin Bormann,
I can speak for him,

has his authority as well,
from the Fuhrer.

We do not just surrender
our prerogative

to decide
Jew questions.

Everyone's point of view
will be considered.

Did you ever see an animal
with two heads?

They do not live.

Want to see Bormann and
Goring fight it out?

HEYDRICH:
We are not trying
to roll over anyone.

Quite the opposite.

Does anyone else want to
raise this question now?

Because I tell you,
I have been asked

to direct the release of
Germany and all of Europe

from the Jewish
stranglehold,

and I believe
that together we will.

But the brief
remains clear:

all of Europe,
England,

from Lapland to Libya,

from Vladivostok
to Belfast,
no Jews.

Not one.

[Pounding]

Now, I pro--

I propose that
the appropriate expert
from the Foreign Ministry

act as channel
to the SS security police
in each country.

I am counting on you

to be my link
to the Foreign Ministry.

Now, I think,
having explained in general

what we are
challenged to do,

I would be grateful
for comments and questions.

And let us have some
refreshment in here.

Pretend we are the directors
of I.G. Farben.

That's how they do it,
is it not?

MAN:
No, that is
how we do it.

How we do it.

MAN:
Gentlemen, please.

HEYDRICH:
My friend, I have read
your recommendations.

I appreciate the effort
and the thought.

I heard some
of what I wrote

in what you have
already said.

I think not.

I hear that Heydrich has
a little Jew blood in him.

Why don't you
ask him?

The numbers
are misleading.

Misleading?

Who's a Jew
is another question,
you see.

Not a heterogeneous--

not a heterogeneous
population.

And how is it that
you can speak Hebrew?

Or is it only
Yiddish you speak?

Well, I lived among them,
I worked among them,

and I picked up
a few words,

Jewish, Yiddish,
what they were,
not enough to speak.

So, I went
in search of a rabbi.

Rabbi means teacher,
I came to find out.

But, may I tell you
the Lord's honest truth?

So many of our
highest ranking officers,

whose responsibility it is
to deal with the Israelites,

they make no attempt to get
inside the Jewish head.

I went to visit this rabbi,
old man, long beard,

in his one-room flat,

and when he saw me,

his eyes grew as large
as hen's eggs.

I asked him to teach me
his language and he agreed.

And he said that he would,
but that he would charge me.

Of course.

So, I applied to my commander
for funds and I was denied.

Now, I've run into this
opposition all my life

so I paid my own money,
very little, not much.

And he taught me
some vocabulary,

letters of
the alphabet,

but looking back I realize
it was poor judgment on my part,

because I could've so easily
had the old man arrested,

put into prison,
and demanded lessons from him

in his cell
free of charge.

One day,
he went out.

He was rounded up
and shipped off

because he had
gone out unadvisedly.

And I thought,
that's so stupid.

Why are
they so stupid?

Didn't he know that
I would've protected him?

At least until
my lessons were complete.

HEYDRICH:
I want to be through
by 2:30 or earlier.

There is no reason
why we cannot keep going.

I'd prefer you all
to stay at the table.

MAN:
There will be
a buffet lunch.

There will be
a buffet lunch.
Excellent.

Now, settle down.
We're moving along.

You have the overall
understanding,

but it's clear that
some areas will evacuate--

What about our friends
the Italians?

The Italians.

We must all
trust the good Lord

to save us from
our Italian friends.

In the last analysis,
if they do not purge their Jews,

then we will go down
and accomplish it,

and put their
priorities in order.

In France, even where
we aren't occupying,

they will ship their Jews
out comfortably.

Now, here
is another problem.

The Foreign Ministry
sees difficulty

at going at these evacuations
too fast in Scandinavia.

As you say,
Lapland.

Unless we tie up
a lot more troops there,

troops which we need
for the Russian campaign,

Moscow,

the Scandinavians
will not cooperate.

What do your people see
for the rest of Europe?

Foreign Ministry sees
no difficulty with the Balkans,

southeast and western Europe;
this is very good.

Sir.
Hmm? Yes.

The Race and Settlement
Main Office

is planning on sending
an expert to Hungary

for general orientation
on our policies

and I think that should
take place at the same time

as you send
your adviser.

That will put some iron
in the glove, so to speak.

The glove itself
is iron, sir,

and there should be no confusion
as to where policy emanates,

don't you agree?

I should hope that
established relationships

will be maintained.

If they are productive,
but not if they are not.

If I may speak
for the group.

It is not
my intention--

What is
your intention?

The work done
by our department.

Our particular
expert is prepared--

We both serve the Reichsfuhrer,
but he gave the command to me.

I suggest your adviser serve
as an assistant to my man.

That preserves the relative
powers of our offices,
does it not?

Yes, it certainly does, yes.

That is how
it should be.

I will leave it
to you, then,

to be in touch
with Colonel Eichmann.

Yes.

Settled.
We are moving along.

Now we are presented
with a difficult problem.

My instinct is to be Alexandrian
and solve a difficult tangle

with a sharp, clean stroke
this afternoon.

All our actions must be
predicated on law.

Everything we have done
flows from the Nuremberg laws,

which Dr. Stuckart brought forth
to the Reichstag in 1935,

and now we have to
examine those.

The blood and honor laws

in regard to the problems
of mixed marriages

and persons
of mixed blood.

Not only who is a Jew,

but how, in each
defined circumstance,

the Jew is expunged
from society,

the government,
the economy,

through ordinances.

The tapestry, if you'll
permit some pride...

The exemptions
written into the law

allow too many Jews
to remain among us.

We address that problem
by examining each category

and every exemption.

Now, there have been
communications with
the Reich Chancellery head,

Lammers, who has
discussed these questions,
I believe, with the Fuhrer.

You asked why
you are here.

You represent him.

And your own opinion,
we would like that too.

Lammers has indeed
met with the Fuhrer

or his staff
on this question

and reached
an understanding.

Dr. Kritzinger,

can we come to
a further understanding here?

What can we
all agree on?

What I would like
agreed here

is that mixed blood persons
of the first degree,

they have two
Jewish grandparents,

they are half-Jews,
they are just Jews,

they go,
their children go.

And now there are, in the law,
as of now, two exceptions.

If you would.

For first degree mixed,

if they're married to Germans
and they have children,

they're exempted.

Their children would be
second degree mixed,

who would be
treated as Germans.

The other exception
is for first degree mixed

who the Reich has already chosen
to honor with special privilege

for whatever reason.

We are talking here of men
and women who live as Germans.

They do not worship as Jews,
they do not behave as Jews,

but they have some
quantity of blood.

The genetic Jew.

And in those cases
we are going to reexamine

each individual
determination

and perhaps revoke
their exemption.

The Nuremberg laws--

And whoever
receives exemption

better damn well have some
extraordinary merits personally,

not just by the merits
of a German parent
or husband or wife.

And those who are
exempt from evacuation,

they too will fall
within certain categories--

Could you, general,
sorry.

I have
the real feeling

I evacuated 30,000 Jews
already by shooting them.

At Riga.

Is what I did
"evacuation"?

When they fell,
were they evacuated?

There are another
20,000 at least

waiting for
similar evacuation.

I just think it is helpful
to know what words mean.

With all respect.

If I might,

I think it's unnecessary
to burden the record.

Yes.

In my personal opinion,
they are evacuated.

Explain!
I have just done so.

That is not,
no, that is contrary

to what the chancellery
has been told.

I have directly
been assured, I have...

...that...

Purge the Jews, yes.

But to annihilate them...

that we have undertaken
to systematically

annihilate all
the Jews of Europe,

no, no, no,
that possibility

has personally been
denied to me by the Fuhrer!

And it will
continue to be.

Yes, I understand.

Yes...

he will continue
to deny it.

My apologies.

Do you accept
my apologies?

Of course.

So very kind.

Those mixed
in the first degree.

Yes, those mixed
in the first degree,

who are exempted,
will be sterilized.

May I just
point out

with regard to
special exemptions.

Now, it's widely known,

I've heard the opinion
expressed myself,

that there are
80 million good Germans

and each one of them
knows his decent Jew

even if he regards
all the rest as vermin.

If there are
decent Jews,

then before
they are decent,

and indeed after,
they are Jews.

No, first degree exempted
will be sterilized.

No more children

and eventually no more
mixed blood once and for all.

It is important to know
what words mean,

but it is important to remember
that a thousand years from now,

no matter who
holds the power,

history will be written
in those words.

Do you expect the men

serenely to submit
to being sterilized?

Why not? They've already
had their cocks clipped.

It's voluntary,
man or woman.

One can lose one's
possibility to reproduce

or one can be
evacuated.

If a first mixed is sterilized,
then, of course,

the Nuremberg restrictions
no longer apply.

The Nuremberg laws
are very specific--

When I am done.

Thank you. Please.

As for mixed
of the second degree,

those born to
a half-Jew and German,

in other words,
1/4 Jew,

3/4 German
equals German.

With exceptions.

If both parents
rather than one are mixed blood,

the child's a Jew.

If the child is very Jewish
looking or sounding,

even with only
1/4 mixed blood--

When that blood
is dominant?

Then he is a Jew.

Third exception.

A mixed second
who has a criminal
or political record.

Excuse me, sir, is this
a second or a third?

A mixed second.

Third exception.

In other words,
he that shows
he behaves like a Jew,

then he will be
considered as such.

And if any of these
exceptions to the rule

of second mixed
marry a German,

then they will be evacuated;
no special dispensations.

The marriage laws
are very complex--

Yes, because
mixed marriages

inevitably include
German relatives

and they can have
a vested interest

in the fate
of the couple

and also of children
born to the marriage.

So, here it is.

Marriages between
mixed firsts and Germans,

if they have had
no children,

depending on
the repercussions

of the German side
of the marriage,

either the half-Jew
is evacuated or to
the old age ghetto.

Theresienstadt?

Possibly,
somewhere.

The same holds true
for the full blood Jew
with a German wife or husband.

Now, if there
are children,

if the rules
classify them as Jews,

they go with the Jew parent,
evacuation or ghetto,

depending on
the individual case.

If they're classified
as German,

then that spares both the child
and the Jew parent.

Jews of first mixed
married to first mixed,
they're Jews.

Children as well,
treated as such.

First mixed married
to second mixed, the same.
Children are the same.

Unless they're exempted
by special considerations,

they are gone.

Otherwise to the ghetto,
possibly Theresienstadt.

In all cases

the SS will be
the determining agency.

No question lingers in your
mind about that, does it?

Sterilization will be
a growth industry.

Who would not choose infertility
to avoid evacuation?

They would never know.
Would never know what?

If you use a word
other than sterilize--

You think they would
never know?

It is simply
a matter of secrecy.

The smell of blood
carries very far.

I find the plan
unworkable.

I find the plan
personally insulting

in that I have given years
to codifying the laws

regarding
interracial marriage,

and now I'm presented
with this clumsy, forgive me,

unworkable structure.

My work, these laws,

any legal code
worthy of the name

restricts the enforcers
of the law

as well
as its subjects.

There are some things
you cannot do.

As you see it.

What I see is all I have
to contribute here.

Let me offer
a modification.

A simple change
we can all accept.

Maybe this helps,
the outline.

Sir, what you
have suggested,

and, not to put
too fine a point on it,

you have said
that the half-mixed
will be eliminated.

Evacuated.

Evacuated,
my mistake.

Now, that is
a wholesale departure
from the law.

But my suggestion--

Yes, which is?

I say the half-mixed
should get the choice
we talked about.

To be either sterilized
or taken away.

Does that not come closer
to the spirit at least

of the
Nuremberg law?

Dr. Stuckart,
does it?

No. Sorry, no.

Sterilization
is promising,

but, attempting
a supersession of what are,

are clearly
defined laws

in order to impose all these
subjective evaluations.

It's like,
forgive me,

it is like the imposing
of ad hoc law.

Depending on
subjective evaluations

as to whether he looks Jewish
or he has a Jewish personality

or whatever else

is subject to personal
interpretation and variation,

including the assertions
of the damn Jew himself.

And what does
this do?

It subverts
the Nuremberg laws

and it perpetuates
disrespect for the law.

I think we are
absolutely basing
our proposals--

With all due respect,
in all frankness.

It's a tangle.

And this is not
pride of authorship,

I am simply reacting

to the bureaucratic train wreck
that's to follow.

Please,

it is simply solved--
sterilize them all.

[Banging]

We could call it,
what could we call it?

Medical re-socialization
or something

that we can
find ways.

The biological
necessities
are all met,

my--

the Nuremberg laws
are respected,

a simple procedure--

A snip here,
a snip there.

This is not a joke!

It is not,
this is--

X-rays. Well,
that is how you do it.

MAN:
Exactly how?

You have this X-ray machine
built into a counter or a desk.

Some unfortunate Jew

stands at attention
in front of the desk,

and bzzzz?

I am not coming
to your office.

So, you either raise the desk
or lower the desk...

A certain
subterfuge--

I do not know if
it sterilizes the female.

That is
a technical question.

Not voluntary,
you're saying?

No, every Jew
of whatever degree.

Whoever betrothed to,
however mixed.

Whatever service
to the state.

Bzzz!

So, what you're saying
is there's no need to
evacuate them...

We pinch off the race
at this generation.

The law of the Reich!
We make the law we need.

Why am I
telling you this?

How many lawyers
are in this room?
Raise your hand.

Oh, Jesus Christ,

it's worse
than I thought.

The children,
what then, for them?

Well?

Oh, the children, well,
you just line them up

in front of
their desks,

and X-rays toast
their little gonads.

If I might?

For perspective,

we have already been
using sterilization

for the mentally defective
since 1939 in our T-4 program.

T-4?

Euthanasia is
the correct term, yes?

Yes, in fact,
Reichsfuhrer Himmler

discussed it
with the general.

Apparently a doctor
at the Biological
Institute in Dresden

has a simple injection--
you can father no children.

Where can
I get it?

It would be useful
with the ladies.

I am fixed,
my dear.

Of course,
it is, as yet,

only tested with
mice and rats.

Actually, you would not
need the injection,

just the papers to say
that you had had it.

I have figures,
but they're not exact.

Between 1933 and 1936,

roughly 169,000
and by now, to date,

possibly 300,000
under the law

for the protection of
German blood and honor,

have been sterilized
by various methods.

X-rays, injecting some
corrosive chemical

directly into
the womb.

Yes, this was only
for the Reich itself,

not occupied
territories.

Yes.

Yes.

Are they fit for labor
after these methods?

Well, with
the X-rays,

it's a problem
of dosage.

Less a problem, I think,
with the women, but...

less a problem
with the women.

Secretary Buhler
makes an important point.

Labor.
Yes, exactly, labor.

Now, I'm not implying that
our problems in the Reich

are the same as in
the eastern territories,

but the need for workers
as the military need men,

the need for production,
is only growing.

That is
why sterilization...

This man is
wasting our time.

...it leaves our
captive workforce,

what remains of it.

I do not think our people
want to wait a generation

to end this problem.

We have deferred Jews
by the thousands

in armaments,
construction.

Wait, I can give you
an exemplar.

It's just a quote
from a letter

from the Bruder
Boblick Company,

but there are
many companies...

Just the sound
of his voice

and the sun
goes down.

...the specialists
for I.G. Farben...

I do not think
you understand.

Just in Berlin,
over 10,000 Jews

in the metal
industry alone.

About 19,000
altogether in Berlin,

and that's
just Berlin.

Failing our production
goals even now!

For the war!

Makes a point--we are
moving too fast here,

nothing has been
thought through.

This question
of sterilization

and the question
of deportation
are separate.

Yes, but linked.

Deportation,
evacuation,
elimination.

Where I am, we have
to move them out
now, quickly.

Wipe them away.

Yeah, not
to return.

The truth is there
are labor shortages

in the Reich
and elsewhere
that we control.

There is no argument
about that fact.

Everywhere, and in
our four-year plan--

Oh, not that fucking
four-year plan again.

But our war is
against the Jews.

I do not see
the logic.

We will not sterilize every Jew
and wait for them to die.

We will not sterilize every Jew
and then exterminate the race.

That's farcical.
Dead men don't hump,

dead women don't
get pregnant.

Death is the most reliable
form of sterilization,

put it that way.

So, who is deferred?

First degree mixed,
married to Germans,

and second degree
mixed children are exempt.

On an individual basis,

first degree mixed who have
been awarded special privilege.

I cannot give a damn
rule for everything.

Can I just say
one word more?

Now, in the obligation
to maintain a lawful--

Another lecture.

...what we would be
saying to those...

where we are departing
from the legal letter

and deporting a Jew
married to a German,

a new law
will be required--

Why don't you
write it?

Consider, consider,
the Jews are taken away.

The German spouses
will presumably

inherit the property
of the Jewish spouses,

go to court,

a death certificate
will be applied for,

and what happens to your
secret killings then?

No matter what
you call them,

the secret is out,
dear friends.

Perhaps not inheritance,
perhaps divorce,

freedom to remarry...

so, a requisite
divorce mechanism,

dealing with all these
marriages to be terminated,

becomes the Reich's
responsibility

to its German citizens.
Fuck.

I am speaking!

Now, except for those initiated
before the spouse is deported,

the courts are going
to be so busy with divorces

that the civil courts
will be on 24-hour shifts

and the litigation wait
will be accounted in decades.

Or longer.

Well, I, for one,
have no sympathy

with Germans
who climb into bed

with members
of the tribe.

Nor do I.

I ask myself,
what is this concern?

When the ruling principle
of our government

and our party is to
make Germany Jew-free,

you are arguing to
let these yids stay?

To influence,
to operate freely?

With the exception
that you neuter them?

They're not free,
they are not free!

The law restricts them,
it isolates them--

Perhaps the judge
has some special
love for them.

Yes, yes, yes,
special love.

For whom?
For Jews?

Oh, wonderful.

You don't have
my credentials.

Forgive me--
from your uniform

I can infer that
you're shallow,

ignorant, and naive
about the Jews.

Your line, what the party
rants on about is,

how inferior they are,
some subspecies,

and I keep saying
how wrong that is!

They are
sublimely clever!

And they are
intelligent as well.

My indictments
of that race

are stronger and heavier
because they are real.

Not your
uneducated ideology.

They are arrogant
and self-obsessed

and calculating
and reject the Christ

and I will not have
them pollute German blood.

Please, doctor.
He doesn't understand.

And neither
do his people.

Deal with
the reality
of the Jew

and the world
will applaud us.

Treat them as
imaginary phantoms,

evil, inhuman fantasies,

and the world will have
justified contempt for us.

To kill
them casually

without regard for
the law martyrs them.

It will be
their victory.

Sterilization
recognizes them

as a part of our species,

but prevents them from
being a part of our race.

They'll disappear
soon enough,

and we will have acted
in defense of our race,

and of our species,
and by the law.

This fellow
mentioned the law

for the protection
of German blood.

I wrote that law.

And when you have
my credentials,

then we'll talk about
who loves the Jews

and who hates them.

Pigs don't know
how to hate.

I note, too,
that when it comes to

the half-mixed,
that to kill them,

abandons that half of
their blood which is German.

I'll remember you.

You should;
I'm very well known.

We should take out
the references

to Christ and such.

I should've
stopped him.

Gentlemen,
if I may, for a moment.

Dr. Stuckart has
raised the question

of administrative
consequences of
evacuation.

He is a very brilliant
scholar of the law

and I am sure
just as totally committed

to a Jew-free Europe
as any of us.

Let us take a moment.

Go on with
the food.

[Chattering]

If you are suggesting that
you have dominion over me,

just remember this--
even the party,

which I have served
loyally since 1922,

answers to
the government.

They both answer
to the Fuhrer.

You may be
a friend of Goring,

but if you're
a betting man,

put your money
on Bormann.

I hear you've
been flying

that powerful little
plane of yours.

This morning, yes.

Yes, I'm never comfortable
off the ground.

Not me, I admit.

Nietzsche advises the secret
of enjoying life is to

live dangerously.

He enjoyed it so much,
he went mad.

Look at the world
and tell me

the pleasures
of sanity.

Excuse me, doctor.

Would you join me
for a moment?

Thank you.

We will
accomplish this.

I will not allow

administrative
technicalities

to slow it down.

Every agency will jump
to follow my order,

or asses will sting.

And there are no
shortages of meat hooks

on which to hang
enemies of the state.

This will be
an SS operation.

And as the war goes on,

the SS will more and more
command the agenda,

and put marks
against the names

of the less
than cooperative.

You have a
choice to make.

Well, you understand
that I respect...

Please.

You will still have
to make your choice.

Do not let a
strutting, imbecilic,

porcine prick
like Klopfer

make it for you.

I do not wish
to see the bullies,

I admit, we have more than
our share of them in the SS,

take too much of
an interest in you.

Interest in me?

Do you not think?

And all I want
from this meeting

is unanimity
and no trouble

getting what has
to be done done.

With you at my side,
so much is possible.

I have done
this arithmetic.

The real size
of the labor force

is already a million less
than the figures show.

The economic
considerations

are not the only
considerations, you see.

I'll say
they are not.

Have you done
the extrapolations?

My friend,
with due respect,

may I say fuck
the extrapolations?

I hope you understand

I want to be as
useful as I can.

Well, we must
be in contact.

Exactly.

[Chattering]

From where he sits,

he does not have
the ghettos or the stink.

And he's burglarizing
administrative control

from the governor
general clearly.

Privileges
of rank.

I don't hear
any urgency.

Privileges of rank.
The higher you go,

the more
infallibility
is bestowed.

All right,
but I don't hear

any cut to bureaucracy
solutions, our problems.

You're right. He does
not have our problems.

Crap,
the privileges
of rank.

All that matters is
if you have the SS blood group

tattooed under
your arm.

That's a secret
password for you people.

Oh, what are
these suspicions?

I will tell
you this.

When cholera hits
the ghettos, and typhoid,

your little tattoos
won't protect you

from shitting
your guts out nonstop

until you
dry up and die.

Then tell me about
infallibility.

Those little Nuremberg
country sausages,

the greasy
little ones.

You can keep your
fucking oysters.

Oh, my God,
what is that?

Can you get
them here?

You are Lange?

Yes, sir.

Who were those 30,000
you say you shot?

When you say,
you shot.

In Riga, Latvia.

27,800, I have some
responsibility for,

and stood by with
my men and allowed

Latvian civilians
to kill in mobs.

I receive memos
directing the,

one would say,
"evacuation" of Jews,

who, shot and buried
in soil and corpses,

managed to crawl
out still alive.

Not exactly war,
is it?

And gas chambers
about to come.

What gas chambers?

Gas chambers?

I hear rumors, yes.

This is...
more than war.

Must be a different
word for this.

Try chaos.

Yes, the rest
is argument.

The curse of
my profession.

I studied
law as well.

Well, how do you apply that
education to what you do?

It has made me
distrustful of language.

A gun means
what it says.

[Laughter]

Do we need all
this discussion?

He has his style.

Yes, very
persuasive.

MAN:
Is there a
problem, Doctor?

[Chattering]

MAN:
Hey, Dr. Kritzinger's coming.

It's your boss.
On your feet.

Beautiful lake,
is it not?

I'm sorry.

When the war ends,

I shall come to
live in this house

and rise to see
that lake every day.

And dream
comforting things.

I am a dreamer
as I think you are.

Yes, it is
a dream world.

Ah, Major Lange,
how can I help you?

Politics is
a nasty game.

I think soldiering

requires the discipline
to do the unthinkable,

and politics
requires the skill

to get someone else to do
the unthinkable for you.

But we need
the politics,

so we put up
with them.

At least for now.

Yes.

We look forward
to a better day.

A peaceful world.

A German culture
triumphant.

That is what
we work for.

I appreciate
the words, sir.

We are servant soldiers,
are we not?

Yes, that is
what we are.

Indeed.

[Toilet flushing]

Did you ask him?

Ask him what?

Does he have a little
Jewish blood?

No, not yet.

Inform me
when he answers.

That's what I heard.

A grandmother
or a grandfather.

His father.

That's the rumor.

And if it is true,

how happy would
he be to tell you?

HEYDRICH:
I want a work document
in two days,

if that is possible.
EICHMANN: It will be.

No more than
30 copies.

Yes, sir.
30, numbered?

Yes, and the spools,
the stenotype record,

have it destroyed.
Yes, sir.

Let's get them back in here.
All right.

Who's up
there, sir?

Dr. Klopfer.

Kritzinger is...?

The gentleman
outside walking.

Find him.

Sir.

It has
got colder.

What a pretty
little maid.

HEYDRICH:
I would like to
remind all of you

that our Fuhrer
annunciates the goals.

It is our task to turn
his vision to reality.

We can debate the how,
we can debate the when,

up to a point.

We cannot debate
the if, Dr. Stuckart.

I am not purposely
contentious.

Nor was I trying
to be insulting.

I would like
to try--

So, we will now
discuss method.

Who would like
to speak on this?

So, what is being
advocated here?

A law dissolving
all marriages

between mixed
and German.

Why not?

Courts adjust.

As we all do.
That is not the point.

You are too
inflexible,
my friend.

You know damn well
the courts would be
only too happy

to be rid
of the problem.

I am pointing out
the difficulty

of casting every
Jew and non-Jew

into the sausage
machine.

And if that's the plan,

I'm asking that some
legal framework be built.

Let's get it done and if
we skip a few steps...

Skip a few steps.

When you plane down
a piece of wood,

a few chips
go flying.

Jews or judges,
who are the chips?

I would like to say,

in this discussion,

regarding the tone,

first, abandon the
misperception you have

that Dr. Stuckart has
some affection for the Jews.

I am sure he does not
and his heart is pure.

He believes in
supremacy of law.

Jews, in any event,

will vanish soon
enough from Germany.

But, the method,
yes, well,

you accept casually

the obliteration
of legal distinctions

and the use of extreme,
inconceivable measures,

that, and I say again,

that our chancellery was
assured would not be used.

That is where
we have come.

A soldier cannot decide
where he chooses to fight.

Where are we here?

General Heydrich was
inviting your opinions
on the methodology.

Indeed.
I can say this--

you're going to have
your work cut out

with the Catholic Church,

with the Reich divorcing
all those good Catholics,

and that's not gonna make
our priests very comfortable,

or the Vatican.

The Vatican has
no love for the Jew.

Why should
they interfere?

The Lutherans would
not object either.

I agree with
Dr. Stuckart.

The problems outweigh
the short term

ideological
satisfaction.

Military necessity
comes first, am I wrong?

Why can this
not be simpler?

Well, the Ministry
of Justice,

which I represent,
can live with it gladly.

Major Lange,
an opinion.

General, I accept
the chain of command.

I have no other
gods before it.

The politics of it all,
no, nothing.

We are more than
a nation of armies.

I hope.

General.

If Dr. Stuckart
is saying

we shall turn
a few Jew-loving
Germans against us,

I would happily throw them
all in the same transport.

It is, however,
a political decision,

not mine
particularly to make.

Can you step back

from trying to settle
these details today?

Other agencies will
want to be heard.

Now, that is wisdom
from my neighbor.

I favor
sterilization,
I think.

But not wholesale.

What General Heydrich
outlined earlier, why not?

X-rays, injections?

Why are we discussing
theoretical solutions?

Goethe said that
theories are gray,

but that real
life is green.

Stop chattering
and be realists here.

I insist,
as I have before,

that the best way
is the quickest way.

Purge them, totally,
off our land.

Ideally,
off our planet.

[Thumping on table]

And for the eastern
territories,

leave us
able-bodied workers.

If they are separated,
the men from the women,

q.e.d., no babies.

And evacuate the others,
as you outlined.

Get it done.

All right,
we've gone around.

I have your opinions.
I want to move on.

Let's have the food in here.
Yes, sir.

I wish to keep going.
We can eat while we work.

To clarify what I agree with
and what I do not,

I agree with the doctor
about the complications

of all
the variations,

but I favor
deportation or,

well, sausage
making, right?

I hear talk
from some of you

who live here in Germany
about labor force.

What is the reality?

At least for
the Polish Jews,

damn few of them are fit
for labor of any kind.

You do not find Jews with
dirt under their fingernails,

so who is this
labor force?

What we have

are ghettos filled
and overfilled

with the scabrous,
the rotting.

We do not have
the food for them.

The stink of their diseases
does not stop at the walls

and you ship them up to us
by the thousands

to deal with.
What are we to do?

We have no place
to put them.

We have no more place
to put our own.

We cannot shoot
3 1/2 million Jews.

We cannot poison them
and we cannot use them.

You're gonna have
Major Lange and his men

come in with their
special methods.

How many Rigas
do we have to have?

Build the wall higher.

What we
are asking

is that before you flood us
with all of these Jews,

let us first
clean out ours.

Empty our ghettos into
whatever you have for them.

Military too.

Mass shootings
by our groups

create morale problems,

especially when the Jew
is a German Jew,

who is intellectually
superior to the Russian Jew.

And even with cooperative
elements of local civilians,

mass slaughter
leaves a bad taste.

I can so testify.

We've had to deal
with the backlash

when it comes
to German ones.

And if your method of
disposing of all these Jews

diverts military units
and rolling stock

from the eastern front,

then it is
a stupid choice.

Recognizing the priority
for ridding ourselves

of the Jews...

Not arguing priority,
but method and expediency.

Why can't
you shoot them?

Didn't you
hear him?

It is the worst thing for
our soldiers to be doing.

They are women,
they are children,

and soldiers have
a sense of honor, sir.

There's plenty of honor
in following orders.

Sir, would you like to
volunteer for my group?

Enthusiastically. I will.

You will not.

11 million, even half that,
executed in small batches,

would be asinine
to undertake

for the reasons
Dr. Meyer mentioned.

Inefficient use of time,
troops, equipment, bullets.

No, as Major Lange
will learn,

using gas
is much cheaper
and less public.

Please.

The T-4 euthanasia program
has used injections,

but most effectively,

most effectively,

a carbon monoxide gas.

We began using it on
Polish mental patients

in Brandenburg
in January, 1940.

Now, an area is
constructed that, um,

resembles a shower
room or a bath,

and the subjects
are brought in naked,

as though for a shower,

and outside,
stainless steel tanks

pump in pure
carbon monoxide,

which, well,
what it does is...

well, I have figures.

In May, this program
was extended to Hartheim

and in June,
at Sonnenstein.

So, in the first
6 months of 1940,

8,765 persons
were gassed.

By the end of 1940,
a total of 26,459.

By the end of
August last year,

another 35,049.

We terminated this particular
program, however,

on September the first.

So, in the end, 70,273

have been gassed
by this method.

Now, at this time,

we began the advanced
program...

The general government was
not given this information--

Keep going.

Last summer we ordered
the construction

of 20 mobile
gassing trucks,

using their redirected exhaust
back into the chamber.

3 such trucks have been
in use since last month.

At the Chelmno camp,
now called Kulmhof...

Already constructed,
under our noses.

In each truck you can get in
40 to 60 Jews at a time.

In fact, the more you have in,
the faster it works.

And the, um,

carbon monoxide,
what it does is...

the bodies
come out pink.

The gas turns
them pink.

It's a nice touch.

If it is already built,
what is this meeting?

Why bother?

HEYDRICH:
The system has shown
that it works.

It will work for you.
It is settling in.

The method
is now defined.

The Jews go in red
and come out pink.

Now, that is progress.

[Laughter]

I should never mix
wine with whiskey.

What's the matter?

I think I will
be all right.

Don't make excuses

if you have to
leave for a minute.

Sort of
a headache.

Hurry.

Eat.

It's fucking
ridiculous.

Not at all, sir.

It could not
be the mixing.

The cigar?

Everything
all right, sir?

Could be the cigar.

I could never
abide them.

And my father
would chew them.

His mouth was always full
of evil juice and pulp.

It would fill up
and he would have to spit.

I would leave
it there, sir.

Cigarettes, now,
they calm me down.

Settle my stomach.

They calm me down.

The problem is,

there are not enough
of them in the world.

We should
be in there,
should we not?

Yes.

Sir?

[Chattering]

Is this clean?
Yes, sir.

Let me have
a glass of water.

I brought some
out, sir.

I'm not
addressing you.

And a bromide tablet
of some kind.

You did not
like the food?

I did not eat.

Well, I know
of no philosophy--

Philosophy--that
is your argument

when we have
to countenance

the suffocating glut of
this parasitic people,

consuming our food,

contaminating
our professions,

controlling
our currency.

None of that
is true.
In your philosophy.

Perhaps that is what
the chosen people
were chosen for.

Oh...
No, I apologize.

You take a position,
you deserve a response.

It is a cold winter.

The war, in spite
of the rallies

and the posters
and the radio,

looks like a longer,
harder war.

The Jews are
in the way.

And how can I,
one rather

peripheral figure
in your grand plan,

be in your way?

You underestimate
your influence.

I do not.

You would be a hard
man to bring down.

But certainly...
not impossible.

Did I hear you say
earlier "be practical"?

Yes.

Well, then this is
the moment to be...

practical.

Until such time as Germany
can afford your philosophy,

which is what,
hound them?

Impoverish them,
exploit them?

Imprison them?

Just do not kill them,

and you are God's
noblest of men.

I find that
truly remarkable.

Sitting again
at that table,

I will ask for your agreement
to what has been proposed.

And I must
answer now?

Oh, you will answer now
or you will answer later.

I will not oppose you.

I want more
than that.

Oh, of course.

Good.

We understand
each other.

May I tell you
a story?

Ah, a good one?
A true one.

Oh.

Tell me the story.

Well, it was told to me
by a friend of mine.

Yes...

NEUMANN:
Do you realize, sir,
how much thought and effort

has gone into
the four-year plan?

Mmm, plenty,
I am sure.

Reichsmarshall Goring
is very clear.

The necessities
of the war

mean that the Jew
question has to wait.

There has been
a new directive.

New directives says nothing
about changing the priorities.

It is implied.
Not by me.

Why does this have to be
your way or nothing?

I mean the SS.
Ah, now you understand.

I do not.
You have stated it.

When I report to
the Reichsmarshall...

There has been
a new directive.

It has to be
as the SS directs.

You cannot sail a ship
with two captains.

Well, the Fuhrer
is the captain.

And for this, he has given
Heydrich the command.

Even Goring
has given it.

Resign yourself.
Resign?

Yourself to how it
is going to be done.

A soldier
cannot decide--

Yeah, spare me.

MAN:
A Communist
by definition

has a defect
of reason.

MAN:
The Russian is not
a Communist, my friend.

The Russian does not give
a damn who runs things.

I have lived
amongst them.

The Russian only cares
he has a bottle of vodka to suck

and some form of
domestic animal life to fuck,

then he will happily sit
in shit his whole life.

That is his politics.

I know those people.

That is
the distinction.

I absolve
the Jews of that.

What did
Kritzinger say?

He told me a story.
Which was?

He made his point,
he'll sleep at night.

Nothing to eat,
General?

No. We'll see if there's
time when we finish.

We should've had some music.
There must be a piano
in the building.

Have a string trio.

It would add
to the experience.

Yes, I should have.
I'm sorry.

Food, wine,
brandy, no music?

A little lovely
late Beethoven?

I'm sorry.

It would not have
been practical.

Yes.

I'm teasing.

I take it that you do not
get good food up in Krakow.

MAN:
If all Berlin
eats like you,

no wonder we have
shortages.

HEYDRICH:
Was it Mussolini
who said,

war reveals man's
nobler character?

Are we ready...
ah, feeling better?

Thank you, yes.

Something you ate?
I'm fine...

...the cigar.
The cigar?

Unexpected.

We will
forgo cigars.

Oohhh...

That should be
no great trial.

Now, where
did we stop?

The last remark was
by General Freisler,

"The Jews go in red
and come out pink.

That is
progress."

HEYDRICH:
Yes, the side effect
of C.O. Gas.

Now, there is more
to say about that.

Studies are moving for
something even faster,

other faster and cheaper
gases that could be used.

Cyanide is
being tested.

Various forms...
electrocution too.

Yes, right, there is
a research being done

to see whether
electrocution
can even more,

effectively,

quietly,
put an end,

a period to the end
of the sentence.

Say, one truckload
an hour,

including putting
the contents in,

running the engines,
removing the contents,

cleaning the
inevitable soiling,

on a 24-hour schedule,

1,440 a day
times 20 trucks.

20 trucks,
that's 28,800 a day.

10,512,000
in one year.

But I cannot imagine you
could operate consistently

at that rate, not
to mention disposal.

Gas vans are a short term
field solution.

We have
3 camps where

permanent gas chambers
will be operational.

I'm sorry?

Yes, I was about to mention
Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka

before General Hofmann
was taken ill.

It was a fine cigar.

HEYDRICH:
Ultimately, the camps will
be the primary locations.

Yes, now, last summer
Reichsfuhrer Himmler

asked me to visit a camp
up in Upper Silesia

called Auschwitz,
which is very well isolated

and close to
significant rail access.

We are turning that
camp into a major center,

solid structures,

and here's where
your Jewish labor

comes into play
here, Neumann.

The Jews haul
the bricks

and they build
the buildings themselves.

And when
the structures
are complete,

we expect to be able
to process 2,500 an hour.

Not a day, an hour.

And those numbers
look a lot better.

2,500 an hour?

2,500?

At 24 hours a day,
that is 60,000.

60,000 each day.

That's 21,900,000
Jews a year,

if ever there
were that many.

We are also constructing
the means of disposal,

which will
obviously depend

upon the process
of combustion.

Yes, it will be
industrial in nature,

large, commercial
gas-fed ovens,

no residue
to speak of.

60,000 Jews
every day

go up in smoke.

We can achieve that.

Imagine.

Assembly line!

Yes,
the clever Americans
have shown us that,

but we've put it
to the purpose

of a triumphant
German vision.

Triumphant German vision.

So, this is my command
to you here.

Link arms, your units,
your ministries,

apply your intelligence,
apply your energies.

The machinery
is waiting.

Feed it.

Get them
on the trains.

Keep the trains rolling

and history
will honor us

for having the will
and the vision

to advance the human race
to greater purity

in a space of
time so short

Charles Darwin
would be astonished.

Now, I want to bring
this meeting to a close.

The one matter
we have had to postpone

is the point at which

mixed becomes
wholly German
or wholly Jew.

That line will be
drawn very quickly.

I am not trying
to rewrite your law,

but I am invoking
Fuhrer's princip.

His word is above
all written law.

So, do we have any disputes
left to face here,

either with my authority
or with what we have agreed?

HEYDRICH:
General?

Let us astonish
Charles Darwin.

I second
the motion.

It is our most
important war.

HEYDRICH:
Sir?

We are just discussing
the inevitable

and trying to
bring it all about

in the most practical way
under one command.

I have no dispute
with that.

I understand
the realities.

With the understanding--

And indeed,

count on my support.

With the understanding
that consideration

will be given
to my proposal,

yes, sure,
proceed.

I defer to the SS.

If you are to do it,
then force-feed it,

speed it along.

Our situation,
such as in Warsaw,

is difficult, edging
towards disastrous.

Thank you.

Oh, yes,
what can I say?

My enthusiasm
is boundless.

Obviously.

Sorry?

I trust my enthusiasm
is clear, is apparent, yes.

HEYDRICH:
Neumann?

I would like to know that
adequate supplies of labor

will still be available--

HEYDRICH:
On a case-by-case basis.
Major Lange?

Yes.

I would like
to urge that speed

that Dr. Meyer
asked of you.

The Poles are not as disciplined
a population as we Germans.

And I will report
the will of the group
to the governor general.

He will understand that I'm
relieving him of a burden.

Colonel?

I thoroughly approve
and am anxious to start.

I look forward to working
with your office

and yours, colonel.

The sooner
the better.

The note taking,
general.

Yes, I think we can
now dispense with him.

Many of you have
been taking notes

during this conference.

I give you the rest of
the day to memorize them.

They are
to be burned.

Colonel Eichmann
will prepare

a discreet transcript
of this meeting.

You will each
receive a copy.

It may be shown
to superiors,

but to no one
at a lower level.

All comments from above
are to be sent

in the most
privileged way

to me through
Colonel Eichmann.

Good.

We have accomplished
something.

I thank all of you
gentlemen.

Heil Hitler.

Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!
Heil Hitler!

HEYDRICH:
There is plenty of food
left for those of you, please.

[Chattering]

HEYDRICH:
I have a few minutes. Come.

Leave him alone.

His Fuhrer lied to him.
I think he got the message.

General...
just a word.

In here.

[Laughter]

EICHMANN:
Stop it...
stop it!

You!

What are you doing?
You're in uniform!

I'm sorry, sir.
It just seemed to happen.

Not in uniform.

Nothing ever
just happens.

If you prefer,

we can send you to
the Russian front.

Now, clean off
these cars!

MAN:
Are you leaving tonight?

Yes.

What, not another
night in Berlin?

You have nothing
to do, sir. I have.

I must say, you surprised me
at the end, Dr. Stuckart.

STUCKART:
Not my intention.

Leave the paper
tapes with me.

Tomorrow morning
we'll begin

the transcription
in my office,

but leave the tapes
with me now.

You want all
the tapes, sir?

Yes, all of them.

SOLDIER:
Dr. Stuckart's car!

Are you unwell?

Good night,
Dr. Stuckart.

Well, my car.

SOLDIER:
General Hofmann's car!

Doctor.

It is night
in Moscow already.

Soon it will
be dark here.

Do you think
we will ever see

the dawn in
our lifetime?

Come spring, we'll
be on the move again.

Keep your spirits
up, doctor.

The governor general has
specifically been told

that we would be
the first area,

the first to have
our ghettos emptied,

the Jews evacuated.
The possible epidemic--

I know the conditions.
You need not repeat them.

But as to the promise,
you are wrong.

The first to be
cleansed is Germany.

Then you,
Germany first.

The bureaucratic
struggles--

I do not think you understand
this is my operation.

No bureaucracy and no bureaucrat
with his nose in the rule book

and his hand on his cock
will slow it down.

We will be moving Jews
in days, not weeks.

You can start writing
up your train schedules.

Ah, Schubert's
Quintet in C Major.

The adagio will
tear your heart out.

Tell the governor general
to expect my call.

Have we helped
your problem?

Yes, I hope so.

Good, then.
You, sir?

I am sure trains
will be available.

Anything else?

You have been
very patient.

Don't count on it.

Have a good ride
to Krakow.

Thank you.

Well done, colonel.
Fine meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you, as well.

I admire your gift
for organization.

The meeting was
very economical.

Thank you.

Now I am hungry.

Could it happen,
do either of you think,

that we would have
that final solution?

That a year from now

there wouldn't be a Jew
left on the continent?

That we control?
Why not?

Do you drink,
Eichmann?

Yes, sir.
Are you ever drunk?

From time
to time.

Well, then,

take a fucking drink.

Well, I am
on duty, sir.

Well then,
it's an order.

Thank you, sir.

And tell us again
about the pink bodies.

Oh, well, sir,
I'd rather not.

The sounds,
the screams.

He will
faint again.

I did not faint.

I did not faint.

I had a physical
symptom.

What was the story
you were going to tell me?

The story?
Kritzinger.

Yes, he told me
a story about a man

he'd known
all his life.

A boyhood friend.

This man hated his father,
loved his mother fiercely.

The mother was
devoted to him,

but the father
used to beat him,

demeaned him,
disinherited him.

Anyway, this friend
grew to manhood

and he was
still in his 30s

when the mother died.

This mother, who had
nurtured and protected him.

She died.

The man stood as they
lowered her casket and

tried to cry,

but no tears came.

The man's father lived to
a very extended old age.

Withered away and died
when the son was in his 50s,
I think,

and at the
father's funeral,

much to his
son's surprise,

he could not
control his tears.

He was wailing,
sobbing.

He was apparently
inconsolable.

Lost, even.

That was the story
Kritzinger told me.

I don't understand.

No?

The man had been driven
his whole life

by hatred
of his father.

When the mother died,
that was a loss.

When the father died,

when the hate had
lost its object,

then the man's
life was empty.

Over.

Interesting.

That was
Kritzinger's warning.

What?

That we should not
hate the Israelites?

No, that it should
not so fill our lives

that when
they are gone,

we have nothing
left to live for.

So says the story.

I will not
miss them.

Time.

You're going to
take me up

in that plane
of yours sometime.

Yes, we should
do that.

Not right after
you have eaten.

Friday.

Everything will
be prepared.

EICHMANN:
One working copy edited
by me for your approval.

30 copies numbered,

no other records,
I guarantee.

Good.

[Door closing]

You certainly know
how to throw a party.

Thank you.

Shalom.

*

Does it tear
your heart out?

Beautiful, sir.

I have never
understood the passion

for Schubert's sentimental
Viennese shit.

*

NARRATOR:
Colonel Eichmann
carefully edited

the stenographic record
of the conference.

Copies were distributed
to the participants

to be read
and then destroyed.

General Heydrich flew
back to his headquarters

in Czechoslovakia,

where in a few
terrible weeks,

he had earned the nickname
"The Butcher of Prague."

In the spring,

two Czech patriots trained
to assassinate him

and dropped from
a British bomber,

succeeded
in wounding him.

In reprisal,
thousands of Czechs

were rounded up
and shot.

Heydrich's wounds
grew infected,

he fell into
a coma, and died.

Eichmann, as Heydrich's
deputy for Jewish affairs,

was left to finish what
they had begun at Wannsee.

He considered it
a matter of honor.

*