Conspiracy Page #8

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
6,593 Views


- How many Rigas do we have to have?

- Build the wall higher.

What we are asking, before you flood us

with all of these Jews...

...let us first clean out ours, empty our

ghettoes 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.

Even with local civilians cooperating,

mass slaughter leaves a bad taste.

I can so testify.

We've had to deal with the backlash

when it comes to German ones.

If your method of disposing

all the 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...

I'm not arguing priority,

but method and expediency.

I'm sorry, 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 and children,

and soldiers have a sense of honor.

Plenty of honor in following orders.

- Would you like to volunteer?

- Enthusiastically.

- I will.

- You will not.

Eleven million, even half that,

executed in small batches...

...would be asinine,

for the reasons Dr. Meyer mentioned.

Inefficient use of time, troops,

equipment, bullets. No.

As Maj. Lange will learn,

using gas is much cheaper and less public.

Please.

The T4 euthanasia program

has used injections...

...but most effectively...

...a carbon-monoxide gas.

We began using it on Polish mental

patients in Brandenburg in January, 1940.

An area is constructed

that resembles a shower room or a bath.

The subjects are brought in naked,

as though for a shower...

...and outside, stainless-steel tanks

pump in pure carbon monoxide...

...which, what it does is...

I have figures.

In May, this program was extended

to Hartheim and in June at Sonnenstein.

In the first six months of 1940,

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 1.

In the end,

At this time,

we began the advanced program.

- The General Government knew nothing...

- Keep going.

Last summer, we ordered the construction

of 20 mobile gassing trucks...

...using their redirected exhaust

back into the chamber.

Three such trucks have been in use

since last month.

- But the Chelmno camp, now 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...

...carbon monoxide, what it does is...

The bodies come out pink.

- The gas turns them pink.

- That's a nice touch.

If it is already built, what is this meeting?

Why bother?

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.

That is progress.

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.

- F***ing 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!

It would fill up, and he would have to spit!

I would leave it there, sir.

Cigarettes...

...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?

- 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.

- I know of no philosophy...

- Philosophy clutters your argument.

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's what the chosen people

were chosen for.

No, I apologize. You take a position,

you deserve a response.

It is a cold winter.

The war, in spite of the rallies,

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.

Then this is the moment to be practical...

...until a time when 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 at that table, I will ask for your

agreement to what has been proposed.

And I must answer now?

You will answer now,

or you will answer later.

I will not oppose you.

- I want more than that.

- Of course.

Good.

We understand each other.

May I tell you a story?

- A good one?

- A true one.

Tell me the story.

- It was told to me by a friend of mine.

- Yes?

He knew a man...

Do you realize how much thought and

effort has gone into the Four-Year Plan?

Plenty, I'm sure.

Reichsmarshal Gring is very clear.

The necessities of the war

mean that the Jew question has to wait.

There's been a new directive.

That says nothing about

a change in priorities.

- It is implied.

- Not by me.

Why is it your way or nothing?

I mean the SS.

- Now you understand.

- I do not.

You have stated it.

- When I report to the Reichsmarshal...

- There has been a new directive.

It has to be as the SS directs.

You can't sail a ship with two captains.

The Fhrer is the captain.

And for this,

he has given Heydrich the command.

Even Gring has given it.

- Resign yourself.

- Resign?

Yourself to how it's going to be done.

- A soldier cannot decide...

- Yeah, spare me.

A Communist, by definition,

has a defect of reason.

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 f***.

Then he will happily sit in sh*t

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?

- Told me a story.

- Which was?

- Later. He made his point, he feels better.

- Nothing to eat?

- Lf there's time later.

We should've had music.

There must be a piano here.

- A string trio 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.

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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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