Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation

Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation

45 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 2, 2022

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.

Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation

45 mins | Documentary, History, TV Movie | Jan. 2, 2022

Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation
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.
Producers ZDF, History Media Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Original title Die Wannseekonferenz - Die Dokumentation
Directors Jörg Müllner
Writers Jörg Müllner

Cast

Philipp Schepmann

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Margot Friedländer

as Self - Interviewee

Götz Aly

as Self - Interviewee

Robert Gerwarth

as Self - Interviewee

Peter Klein

as Self - Interviewee

Martin Kröger

as Self - Interviewee

Martin Cüppers

as Self - Interviewee

Barbara Schieb

as Self - Interviewee

Marcus Gryglewski

as Self - Interviewee

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

as Self - Interviewee

Adolf Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

as Self (archive footage)

Hans Frank

as Self (archive footage)