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Synopsis: In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich and his associate, Lt. Eichmann 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
Director(s): Frank Pierson
Production: HBO Films
  Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
R
Year:
2001
96 min
6,591 Views


Please sit, Dr. Kritzinger.

Make us all comfortable.

Where is this going?

Yes, this is Lt. Col. Eichmann.

I understand, Major, but the General

is 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. Heil Hitler.

This meeting is not taking place.

You are to take no phone calls

for anyone at this meeting.

Anyone.

Unless the Fhrer calls, and he won't.

- Understood?

- Yes, sir.

Here is Field Marshall Reichenau

strapped to a chair...

...and put, convulsing, on the plane,

where he dies.

He wanted to retreat as deeply

as Rundstedt did, but...

...Rundstedt got his medal

and Reichenau, the hereafter.

Maj. Schussheim was reluctant

to give me any message.

He does not appreciate you as I do.

He does not appreciate you as I do.

Emigration.

The policy to replace that of emigration,

and we have enough 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.

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.

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 best thing I've heard about Estonia.

You have the list, I won't read it 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.

- The changing definitions?

- Yes, go ahead.

Except that there are countries

that define Jewishness non-racially...

...merely as a religious practice:

England, America.

Therefore, by our racial principles...

...there may be many additional

uncounted Israelites.

And he speaks Jewish. 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.

My suggestion is

to take all able-bodied Jews...

...separated according to sex, to the East...

...to work in units,

specifically for road building.

Yes. Can we be practical?

You are hardly describing the promised

livable conditions for these people.

On the face of it, your plan...

...excuse me, does not succeed.

It is fanciful.

You have, in this collection here...

...five million Russo-European Jews:

...15% urban workers,

tradesmen:
Almost 20%...

...bureaucrats:
Almost 24%...

...doctors, writers, journalists,

actors and so on: Almost 33%.

...doctors, writers, journalists,

actors and so on: Almost 33%.

Building roads?

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.

- Please...

- You want yours first! I understand.

Let me make my case, you'll 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 wounded Jewish veterans...

...and those given 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.

This is all very beguiling, but when you

include privileges for certain Jews...

...the Party Chancellery

sees its interest a certain way.

And Martin Bormann, I can speak for him...

...has his authority as well from the Fhrer.

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 Gring

fight it out?

We are not trying to roll over anyone,

quite the opposite.

Does anyone else want to raise

this question now?

Because I have been asked to direct

the release of Germany and all of Europe...

...from the Jewish stranglehold,

and I believe, together, we will.

But the brief remains clear: All of Europe...

...England, from Lapland to Libya,

from Vladivostok to Belfast...

...no Jews.

Not one.

I propose that the appropriate expert from

the Foreign Ministry...

...act as channel to the SS security police

in each country.

I'm counting on you to be my link

to the Foreign Ministry.

I think, having explained in general

what we are challenged to do...

...I would be grateful for comments

and questions.

Let us have some refreshment in here.

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

- That's how they do it, yes?

- That is how we do it.

My friend,

I have read your recommendations.

I appreciate the effort and the thought.

I heard some of what I wrote

in what you 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 is a Jew?" is another question.

- They're not a heterogeneous...

- Not a heterogeneous population.

And how is it that you can speak Hebrew?

Or is it only Yiddish you speak?

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.

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.

I applied to my commander for funds,

and I was denied.

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

and letters of the alphabet.

Looking back, I realize,

it was poor judgment on my part...

...because I could've so easily

had the old man 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:

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Loring Mandel

Loring Mandel (born May 5, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American playwright and screenwriter whose notable works include the TV movie Conspiracy. He has written for radio, television, film and the stage. more…

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