Conspiracy

[Feanor]

Like business meetings? I recently perversely "enjoyed" HBO's Conspiracy. This a dramatization of the notorious Wannsee Conference, held in Berlin in January 1942. As you might reasonably assume this movie is a modest opus, given it merely documents a "business" meeting.

The historical context was the meeting called SS-General Reinhard Heydrick, chief the the Reich Main Security Office, (which included Gestapo, the SD, and all German criminal police), and acting Reich Protector (governor) of Bohemia, (this being after the Nazi occupation of Checkosovakia). The meeting was organized by SS-Lt.Col. Adoph Eichmann, the administrative implementer of the "Final Solution".

The decision to implement the Final Solution had already been taken. It was Heydrick's aim to apprise various German Government and Nazi Party officials of the "solution" and insist upon their cooperation. The meeting may be deemed a success. It is also uncannily like many business meetings I've attended, (appart from the food & booz being much better at this one).

Kenneth Branagh plays a suavely intimidating Reinhard Heydrick. Stanley Tucci plays an efficient, overtly modest, covertly vicious Adolph Eichmann.
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