kristhebass Reviewer Barbieclauss (the clue is in his name) is obviously a Nazi supporter attempting to show there is no evidence to support this film. There is, Eichmann referred to it at his trial and even provided some of the conversations as did other Nazi Officials in memos and speeches.Other reviewers have stated it is boring, ok there is no action, is that what is required to make a good film? I found it very engaging, it doesn't matter if we don't know exactly what was said, the fact that it took place at all is damming enough.Excellent performances from all the cast, although blink and you'll miss Tom Hiddleston in his first appearance on screen.

emale-53050 Originally, Hitler's "Mein Kampf", stated that after a Nazi victory against the Allies, all European Jews would be deported to Palestine.In 1941-42, Rommel's Afrika Korps were being pummeled by British forces in North Africa. Caused, in part, by the Nazi invasion in the Soviet Union getting bogged down by an early Russian winter. Hitler had to divert supplies destined for Rommel to the Eastern Front.German officials met with Arab leaders, including the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to discuss working together to defeat the Allies. The Grand Mufti, who was aware of Hitler's plans for the Jews, agreed but only if the Jews were not returned to Palestine. Besides, since most of the Middle East was former members of the Ottoman Empire, now British and French colonies, the Arabs considered the Germans their allies! And so it was that the Nazi's came up with the "Final Solution", the total extermination of all Jews!

harrysloman-82992 This historical documentary film portrays the Wansee conference on the outskirts of Berlin on a snowy day in winter 1942. The conference is held in a large manor house on the outskirts of a lake just outside Berlin. In this conference the fate of every Jew in Europe was discussed by a number of high ranking Nazis. In some ways this group of men are responsible for every holocaust death in Europe. The film makes you ask yourself a number of question such as how can these people sit here and talk about the fate of these Jews as if they are not humans. The men sit around and have jokes about how will be dealt with be it sterilization or execution. They seem to show no remorse for the actions they are planning to take out. The film gives us an insight into how the Nazis acted and how they could commit such atrocities. Kenneth Branaugh delivers an excellent performance as Heydrich, the head of the table at the meeting. He threatens people with a smile on his face, and shows no remorse while speaking of killing thousands of people. Stanley Tucci is also great as Eichmann, who set up the entire meeting, from the venue to the food to the topics. The way he counts the number of Jews that can be exterminated in a a given period of time is creepy. The cast also includes great turns by Colin Firth, a lawyer and professor who thinks the systematic slaughter of the Jews is bad for Germany's future, and Ian McNiece, who plays a hateful and witty official. Over all the film is interesting and keeps you entertained throughout, however it also leaves a message in your head asking yourself how this conversation could have really happened in real life and how these people could show so little remorse or responsibility for these actions which affected the world forever.

Lee Holland The film documents a meeting held during WW2, when SS second-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich, assembles a group of Nazis to discuss the final solution of the Jewish question. The Wannsee conference is held in a German country house in snowy Berlin, the Nazis sit around a table for most of the film, occasionally getting for drinks, while enjoying buffet lunch. The debate is whether to execute the Jews or sterilise the Jews, discussing what method is the most efficient/effective option of eliminating the entire Jewish race.There were mant attendees including : Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Hofmann, Heinrich Müller, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Gerhard Klopfer, Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Rudolf Lange, Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, Dr. Alfred Meyer, Dr. Josef Bühler, Dr. Roland Freisler, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Erich Neumann, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger and Martin Luther. The range of attendees symbolises the various natures of the Nazi culture.During in the deep discussions that are going on round the table, Heydrich proposes methods of how to exterminate the whole race, he proposes sterilisation or execution. Heyrdrich reveals that some of the execution methods are already in place; like the gas vans, this surprises some of the attendees that are round theb table who start to doubt the regime, however the people who are not totally sure on what should happen to the Jews are threatened lightly by Heydrich to make up their minds. Some parts of the film are very comical using language to provoke certain feeling and to interact with the reader.However there is very limited evidence to support what happened at the Wannsee conference therefore some of this information in the film could be unreliable, but it does create a very good sense of personalities and views towards the Jews at the time conveying that it was a one way journey for the Jewish race and that only one thing was going to happen to them.Overall this film, conspiracy, in my opinion is very good in portraying people's views in the Nazi party and that there were a diversity of opinions towards what was going to happen. However it is quite a short film therefore it will not give the viewer a full sense of what the conference was like.