Conspiracy Page #5

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
6,592 Views


A mixed-second.

- Third exception.

- Third exception.

In other words, he that behaves like a Jew

will be considered as such.

If any of these second-mixed exceptions

marry a German...

...then they will be evacuated,

no special dispensations.

- The marriage laws are very complex...

- Mixed marriages include German relatives.

They have a vested interest in the couple,

also in children born to the marriage.

So here it is.

Marriages between mixed-firsts and

Germans, if they have had no children...

...depending on repercussions

on the German side...

...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.

If there are children,

if the rules classify them as Jews...

...they go with the Jew parent, evacuation

or ghetto, depending on the case.

If they're classified as German, that spares

both the child and the Jew parent.

Jews of first-mixed

married to first-mixed are Jews.

Children as well, treated as such.

First-mixed married to second-mixed

and children, 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.

I have given years to codifying the laws

regarding interracial marriage.

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 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 the half-mixed

will be eliminated.

- Evacuated.

- "Evacuated." My mistake.

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 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 if he looks Jewish...

...or has a Jewish personality,

or whatever else...

...is subject to interpretation

and variation...

...including the assertions

of the damned Jew himself.

What does this do?

It subverts the Nuremberg Laws...

...and perpetuates disrespect for the law.

I think we are basing

our proposals carefully...

No, with all due respect and all frankness,

it's a tangle.

And this is not pride of authorship.

I'm simply reacting to the bureaucratic

train wreck that's to follow.

Please, it is simply solved.

Sterilize them all.

We could call it "medical re-socialization"

or something.

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...

- X-rays.

- That is how you do it.

- 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...

I am not coming to your office.

So you either raise the desk

or lower the desk, depending on...

A certain subterfuge...

- I do not know if it sterilizes the female.

- A technical question.

Not voluntary, you're saying?

Every Jew, of whatever degree,

whoever betrothed to...

...however mixed,

whatever service to the state.

You're saying

we don't need to evacuate them...

- We pinch off the race at this generation.

- The Reich's law...

We make the law we need.

Why am I telling you this?

How many lawyers are in this room?

Raise your hand.

Jesus Christ. It's worse than I thought.

The children, what then for them?

You just line them up

in front of their desks...

...and X-rays toast their little gonads.

If I might, for perspective:

If I might, for perspective:

We have already been using sterilization

for the mentally defective...

...since 1939 in our T4 program.

- T4?

- "Euthanasia" is the correct term, yes?

Yes. Reichsfhrer 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...

...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?

With the X-rays, it's a problem of dosage.

Less a problem, I think, with the women.

Less a problem with the women.

Secretary Bhler makes

an important point.

- Labor.

- Yes, exactly. Labor.

I'm not implying

that our problems 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 is

the preferred option.

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 Debruder Public Company...

...but there are many companies...

The sound of his voice,

and the sun goes down.

- The specialist for I.G. Farben...

- I do not think you understand...

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!

He makes a point.

We are moving too fast here.

Nothing has been thought through.

The questions of sterilization

and deportation are separate.

- Yes, but linked.

- Deportation, evacuation, elimination.

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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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