It’s like the opposite of 12 Angry Men. 15 polite Nazis. And a secretary for female representation. It’s super duper dry but that’s entirely the point. The banality of evil.
On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee Conference takes place in Berlin, a meeting that had only one item on the agenda: The Final Solution, the organization of the systematic mass murder of eleven million European Jews.
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It’s like the opposite of 12 Angry Men. 15 polite Nazis. And a secretary for female representation. It’s super duper dry but that’s entirely the point. The banality of evil.
Germany and its conception of the reappraisal of its own history is fascinating. doing it in the most accurate, thorough and rigorous fashion is the quintessential method. and this might be indeed the only one enabling us to deal with the vicious, unbearable, literally unfathomable truth.this project is the perfect image for that: a tilting moment of history, fine-grained presentable by the fact that the exact protocol of this meeting exists. obviously we're not thin of the proper personal to put into this chess game of nazi-authenticity, trained through decades of popular culture, especially the audio-visual one dealing with those dark years (on a sidenote: Jakob Diehl is amazingly scary, I would love to see a whole nazi flick build around him).it's a "looking so deep into the eye of the tiger, that you don't have to be aware of his presence" anymore thing though. of course you know he's still there and he will eat you alive, but at least you're too busy getting lost in his gaze. that way you don't have to understand your own death (wish/drive) anymore, but can calmly take a bath in the details sorrounding it. no one can accuse you for not dealing with it, cause you did, in the most meticulous way you could think of. it's missing the forest for the trees, missing the point for the surface. after all the spic and span nazi uniform always was the ultimate fetish of the german. it still seems to be, this time around though it's on exhibition for further research, on display in the vitrina, dismissed as cull. we're just doing our duty here, dealing with the necessities, going to do what needs to be done, for the cleansing of our national soul and conscience.
Geboren in den letzten Monaten des 2. Weltkriegs, hat mich die Geschichte der Nazitäter und Mitläufer mein ganzes Leben lang intensiv bewegt und beschäftigt. Ich habe sehr viel dazu gelesen, und mir angesehen. Und immer noch bin ich fassungslos, wenn ich damit in Berührung komme.„Die Wannseekonferenz“, die kühl, fast in Echtzeit, das überlieferte Protokoll der Sitzung zur „Endlösung“ ins Bild setzt, ist das Erschütterndste, was ich seit langem gesehen habe. Diese hochfunktionalen, wahnsinnigen Unmenschen … so normal … unfassbar normal … Männer, Akademiker in ihrer quasi natürlichen Funktion als Entscheidungsträger des Staates, fest eingebunden in ihrer sozialen Männerwelt, regeln mal eben so, was getan werden muss … und Frau, die zu Diensten ist … alles ganz normal … die Rohheit der Sprache ganz normal … Worte von einer Brutalität, die tödlich ist … völlig normal … So ist das also gewesen … Auschwitz, die Auslöschung von 6 Millionen Leben - eine ganz normale, pragmatische Entscheidung auf einer Sitzung mit Frühstück … erledigt, Papierkorb.Dieser Film lässt mich in schmerzhafter Deutlichkeit fühlen, was Hannah Ahrendts Worte von der „Banalität des Bösen“ bedeuten. Es ist zum Verzweifeln.ZDF-MediathekMeine Filmliste zum Thema letterboxd.com/karaika/list/who-didnt-know/
On January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials gather at a villa in Berlin to organize the systematic mass murder of European Jews during the Wannsee Conference.
The Conference was directed by German filmmaker Matti Geschonneck in 2022.
The Conference was released in Germany on January 18, 2022.
The Conference is rated DE 12 in Germany.
