1 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,880 Adolph Hitler invaded Poland in September, 1939... 2 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,720 ...starting WWII. 3 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,560 By the winter of 1942, his armies were freezing and starving... 4 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,440 ...in the snows of Russia, where his best general had died of a heart attack... 5 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,240 ...and America had entered the war. 6 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,160 For the first time, Hitler's dream of a German empire... 7 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,960 ...to last 1,000 years was in doubt. 8 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,800 While he hired and fired generals and the winter grew colder... 9 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,680 ...15 of his officials were ordered from their commands and ministries... 10 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,520 ...to meet in a quiet lakeside residence in Wannsee, in Berlin... 11 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,320 ...far from the crisis at the front. 12 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,200 In two hours, these men changed the world forever. 13 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,960 Only one record of what was said and done here survives... 14 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,800 ...from the wreckage of what was the Thousand-Year Reich. 15 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,720 - How many rolls? - Enough for four hours, sir. 16 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,080 Too many. Two hours worth should be sufficient. 17 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,160 Do we have enough? How many fell? 18 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,080 I am sure we have a sizable inventory, sir. 19 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,000 You are sure, or you know? 20 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:49,880 I know, sir. 21 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:53,760 Itemize the cost. He pays. Make it a separate report to me. 22 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,560 And keep him where I don't see him. 23 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,120 Smile. 24 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,120 It is a fine day. 25 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,960 Yes, sir. 26 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:17,760 All right, then. Let's look smart. 27 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,520 Heil Hitler. 28 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,080 No silence in Latvia. No silence like this. 29 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,880 You're surprised it's better in Berlin? 30 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:10,600 Heil Hitler. 31 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,280 - We've met, Colonel. - Indeed, we have. 32 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,200 - I'm State Secretary Bühler. - Indeed, you are. 33 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,120 - Col. Schöngarth. - Sir. 34 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,960 Maj. Lange. 35 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,840 If there's anything any of you need, don't hesitate to call an orderly or me. 36 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,680 My appreciation to the man who picked this spot. 37 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:34,560 That would be Gen. Heydrich. 38 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,960 Beautiful house, from a more elegant time. 39 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,320 Are they any messages from Cracow, my office? 40 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,240 No, sir. 41 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:44,160 Where do we go? 42 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:47,040 The Major has come a long way, the man deserves a drink. 43 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,920 This way. You'll find the wines, and we're not limited to the wines, first-rate. 44 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:52,800 That way. 45 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:54,760 Yes, the court will dry your throat. 46 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,680 Drink. 47 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,480 Excellent! 48 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,360 Put this book away. 49 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,200 It's not built for this purpose, not for meetings. 50 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,080 These floors are not for boots. 51 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,000 - It was a private home? - Private home, yes. 52 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:14,920 Whose? 53 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,760 We believe it was owned by a Jew. There's some dispute. 54 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:21,640 In the SS, we travel deluxe. 55 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,560 - Always. - Well, we've earned it, surely. 56 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,360 Not everyone agrees. 57 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,880 - Heil Hitler! - It's running like a damn truck. 58 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,760 They say they replaced the belts and plugs, but it sounds like a cement mixer. 59 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,160 Can someone here check? I can't hear myself think in there! 60 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,440 The East is well represented. 61 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,280 And we're here first. 62 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,120 Meet Maj. Lange, a very tired man. 63 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,000 No, please, I am enjoying these surroundings. 64 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,880 - Where can I find Col. Eichmann? - Follow me, sir. 65 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,560 Eichmann? 66 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,440 Excuse the interruption. 67 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,280 Colonel. 68 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,160 My memorandum of recommendations. 69 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,040 I have here another copy, in the circumstance Gen. Heydrich... 70 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,200 ...would like to be refreshed of its contents 71 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:27,920 for the sake of maintaining harmony... 72 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,760 ...between the Gestapo and the Foreign Office. 73 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,640 - That was my thought. - Yes. 74 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,560 Are there any changes to the list of the invited... 75 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,480 No. 76 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,360 - So even Dr. Kritzinger will be here? - Yes. 77 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,800 Yes, he will not be happy. 78 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,120 Here we are. And how are you? 79 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,000 Very well, thank you. I'll make sure that the General sees this. 80 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,840 - When will he arrive? - He should be on the ground any moment. 81 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,600 May I take your coat, sir? Your hat? 82 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,480 Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan, sir. 83 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,360 Yes. How are you, Neumann? 84 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,240 Always surprised and flattered, Dr. Stuckart, that you recognize me. 85 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,040 I'm always thanking you for saying so. 86 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,960 Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan. 87 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,800 Dr. Stuckart. 88 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,560 - Heil Hitler. Welcome, sir. - Heil Hitler. Thank you for the welcome. 89 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,440 Gen. Heydrich's not here yet, I expect. Am I correct? 90 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:17,360 Yes, sir. 91 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,240 He loves a grand entrance. 92 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,080 I have no idea what happened to him. 93 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,960 Probably running a bank somewhere by now. 94 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,880 I understand the purpose, but no idea what the man might propose. 95 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,800 - Or what the meeting's about? Power. - No, consolidation of power. 96 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,680 We should benefit by that. 97 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,600 Kritzinger, a pleasure. I'm pleased you're here. 98 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,480 A morbid curiosity. We have settled this question. 99 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:41,400 So I thought. 100 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,800 - What's been discussed? - Everything, except the fighting in Moscow. 101 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,400 I've heard we're counter-attacking. Reichenau's got them out of... 102 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,000 Reichenau is dead. Let us not gossip like maids at the market. 103 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,840 We are stalled for the winter. Time to face reality. 104 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,520 - Is Col. Eichmann here? - Yes, sir. 105 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,400 Tell him Klopfer has arrived. 106 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,280 And the others? 107 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,160 Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan. 108 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,080 - For Göring? - For Reichsmarshal Göring, yes, his office. 109 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,000 And you, sir? 110 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,880 Luther. And what is your plan? 111 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,760 Where will we be in four years, do you think? Living in the White House? 112 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,520 Welcome, sir. 113 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,440 - You are very well fixed up here. - I think we are. 114 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,320 I'm late because of a briefing. We have this general... 115 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,200 ...who is now trying to capture Moscow, who has never commanded one brigade. 116 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,040 That is what I've been hearing, and that is why I am late. 117 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,000 - Not at all. - Is there beer? 118 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,880 Yes. 119 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:43,800 And where is the boys' room? 120 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,680 I've been briefed by the Governor-General on what concerns, what anticipations. 121 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,560 That is private. 122 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,440 We will all discover what new concepts our SS friends have in mind. 123 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,280 Schöngarth! 124 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,240 Not bad for French. 125 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,120 Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan. I'm very pleased to be here. 126 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,000 Whom may I be speaking to? 127 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:04,920 It is very complex, these laws. 128 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,800 A lot of time and thought have been put to them, and some of these here... 129 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:10,720 ...you notice all the SS... 130 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,080 ...have little idea what is lawful and no respect for what they do know. 131 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,440 Certainly not these men. To them, laws are like ice cream: Easily melted. 132 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,240 I suspect that is why this meeting, which is under my department... 133 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,160 ...is being called by the SS. Do you know? 134 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,960 Only what the invitation suggested. 135 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,840 They always want to meet. The SS love to meet. 136 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,720 And they always want something more... 137 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:37,600 ...though they have everything. 138 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,520 Has anyone heard anything remotely optimistic about the Moscow assault? 139 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,440 No good news. Sympathies all around. 140 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,320 - It's cold. - What? 141 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,720 It must be cold. 142 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,080 What have we got? 143 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,000 I see wine, but no beer. And what are these? 144 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,840 - Cigars, sir. - Please. 145 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,800 Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan. 146 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,680 Luther! Excuse me. 147 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,600 - Sir, this is... - Director, Four-Year Plan. 148 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,480 A close associate of Reichsmarshal Göring. 149 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,320 Neumann, I introduce Dr. Klopfer... 150 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,240 ...a close associate of the Brown Eminence. 151 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,080 - Brown? - I represent Martin Bormann... 152 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,960 ...the Party Chairman of the Thousand-Year Plan. 153 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,320 - Is Dr. Kritzinger here? - Yes, he is, sir. 154 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,160 That's a relief. 155 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,760 - Are they under way? - Not yet, sir. 156 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,680 - Who's late? - We are. 157 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,560 - Who is not here? - Gen. Heydrich, sir, but he's on his way. 158 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,400 He will make his entrance. 159 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,320 Everything is fine, everyone's comfortable: Food, cigars, wine. 160 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,200 Colonel? 161 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,040 He's here, sir. 162 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,800 - Heil Hitler. - Müller. 163 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,680 I love this house! 164 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,600 Seeing it from the air, you appreciate the architect. 165 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,000 - Are we ready? - Absolutely, sir. 166 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,400 After the war, it will be my home. 167 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,280 A marvelous home. 168 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,200 There have been questions about Moscow... 169 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,040 ...but I think I've deflected them successfully. 170 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,920 Understood. If we keep doing this all day, we'll never finish. 171 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,800 With no disrespect to our Führer, it is suspended until the end of business. 172 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:00,680 - Yes, sir. - Very good. 173 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:02,600 - There's wine, sir. - You've all had what you need? 174 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,480 Then let us do what we are here for, and refreshments after? 175 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,400 - There'll be a buffet. - Good. 176 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,320 Dr. Kritzinger, important that you be here. Let us begin. 177 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,160 - Our Führer, how is his mood? - Commanding, of course. 178 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,080 - His generals in Russia are a disgrace. - This conference should've... 179 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,960 In a moment. 180 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,880 Gentlemen, your places are identified. 181 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,760 Thank you all for coming. Please, sit down. I'm sorry I held you up a little. 182 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,560 But you had elegant wine, I'm sure. 183 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,480 And no one there to say it's too early for that. 184 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:32,400 Are you all set up? 185 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,320 - It's prepared. - Very good. 186 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,240 At the risk of sounding like the first day at summer camp... 187 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,120 ...let's go around the table and introduce ourselves... 188 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,040 ...for those who do not know others. 189 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,880 I shall save myself for last and start with Gen. Müller. 190 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,760 Maj. Gen. Heinrich Müller, SS Gestapo. 191 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,640 Klopfer, representing the Party, that is who I speak for. 192 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:53,560 I'm Kritzinger, Ministerial Director of the Reich Chancellery. 193 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,440 I appreciate being called, but wonder why. 194 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,320 The topic, the coordination of the Jewish question, I believe, was resolved. 195 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:00,240 It will be. 196 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,120 With the Führer stating to me and to my superiors... 197 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,920 It will be. 198 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,840 Gen. Hofmann, Race and Settlement, Main Office. 199 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,720 We deal with matters of race and settlement. 200 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,640 Is it me? 201 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:18,520 Leibbrandt, the Political Office of the Ministry for all we hold and administer... 202 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,400 ...in Eastern Poland, the Baltics and in the Soviet Union. 203 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:24,280 I am the State Secretary for the Ministry as a whole. 204 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:28,120 - Give them your name. - Meyer, Dr., sorry. 205 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,000 Stuckart, Interior Ministry. 206 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,960 Martin Luther, Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry. 207 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,840 I met almost everybody. 208 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,720 My name is Neumann, Director, Office of the Four-Year Plan. 209 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,120 Lange, Deputy Commander of SS Task Forces in Latvia. 210 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,440 - Among other things. - We all have other things. 211 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,320 I'm Joseph Bühler... 212 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,240 ...Secretary of State of the General Government of German-occupied Poland. 213 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,200 How cold is it up there? 214 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,040 Better Cracow than Warsaw. 215 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,920 Now that it is run by Germans, you should be spared those Polish winters. 216 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:57,840 Not the case. 217 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,720 Schöngarth, SS assigned to the General Government. 218 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,520 Dr. Freisler, Ministry of Justice. 219 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,440 Also, I hold rank in the Storm Troopers. 220 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:10,360 So that is who I am. 221 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:14,200 Adolf Eichmann, SS Gestapo, Office of Jewish Affairs, and that should be... 222 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:17,080 Yes, that's all. 223 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,000 And I am Heydrich, SS Chief of Reich Security, Main Office... 224 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,880 ...and Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia. 225 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,760 And welcome. 226 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:28,160 You have each been given some papers. These are for you alone. 227 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,520 No copies to be made, not to be seen or discussed with others... 228 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:32,440 ...except superiors. 229 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:36,320 How we deal with matters here must be held secret from our enemies. 230 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,680 We control events better when we control opinion. 231 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,040 Today, each of us becomes a bearer of secrets. 232 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,920 - And our secretary will be discreet? - He agrees. 233 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:47,800 He agrees? Excellent. 234 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,720 Communication between us after today will pass in both directions... 235 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,600 ...through Lt. Col. Eichmann, my deputy for all Jewish matters. 236 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,440 He is your focal point. 237 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,320 To begin, we have a storage problem in Germany with these Jews. 238 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,120 There have been conversations for a year about this Jew... 239 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,040 ...and that Jew and the complexities of the law and this problem... 240 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,880 ...as you, I'm sure, know has tormented us. 241 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,280 We first undertook to expel them from all means by which our people... 242 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,640 ...would have to deal with them, every sphere of life of German people. 243 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:19,520 The laws enacted at Nuremberg, and we should drink a toast... 244 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,400 ...to Dr. Stuckart for devising them. 245 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,280 Coauthor, in all modesty, I am the coauthor. 246 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,160 They established the fundamental legality for the creation of a Jew-free society... 247 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,000 ...a Jew-free economy for the world to see. 248 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,920 And we, indeed, have eliminated the Jew from our national life. 249 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:37,720 Now, more than that, the Jew himself... 250 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,600 ...must be physically eradicated from our living space. 251 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:43,080 - Clarification. - Absolutely. 252 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,440 There will be a moment for that. 253 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,360 But if I may, we pursued a vigorous policy of emigration... 254 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,200 ...but who would take more of them? 255 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,080 "Who would want them?" Was the policy's ultimate limitation. 256 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,920 Every border in Europe rejects them or charges outrageously to accept them. 257 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,760 - America. - Even America, thank you... 258 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,600 ...where Jews constantly whisper in Roosevelt's ear, still turns them away. 259 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,400 Then, in acquiring Poland, we acquired two and a half million more. 260 00:17:12,360 --> 00:17:14,240 By last July, we were met with a new situation... 261 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,160 ...we would, in very short order, be acquiring some... 262 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,960 ...five million Jews as we conquered Russia. 263 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,880 The dimensions of this problem have magnified astoundingly. 264 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,760 Five million. 265 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,160 Exactly the problem. Our ghettos are full... 266 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,520 All those ghettos, yes, with Polish names. 267 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,840 Fully occupied, but hold for now, please, if you would. 268 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,960 At that time, last July, confronting this new situation... 269 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,080 ...Reichsmarshal Göring prepared a directive, you have a copy. 270 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,920 The operative words, if you'll permit me to read: 271 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,800 "I hereby charge you with making all preparations... 272 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,680 "... in regard to organizational and financial matters... 273 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,560 "... for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question... 274 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,480 "... in the German sphere of influence in Europe. " 275 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,880 Now, for that, I read the cleansing... 276 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:03,520 ...of the entire continent of Europe. 277 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,080 You see, the word "cleansing"... 278 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:09,000 An accurate word, I think. If I may go on... 279 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:10,880 ...in the second paragraph: 280 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,760 "Wherever other governmental agencies are involved... 281 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,640 "... these are to cooperate with you... " I hope. So on, so on. 282 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:19,520 "... as necessary for the accomplishment... 283 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,400 "... of the desired solution of the Jewish question. " 284 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:28,240 This is our mandate, all of us. 285 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,120 May I say, in fairness... 286 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,040 ...the Jewish question falls within the responsibilities... 287 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,920 ...of my department, the Reich Chancellery, and we received no directive... 288 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,800 If you will give me a moment or two. 289 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,680 - The document is in your folder? - Yes, it is in your folder. 290 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,600 I'm sure it is. 291 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,520 Finally, what has happened since that directive? 292 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:46,440 Succinctly, now... 293 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,360 ...we are standing still in Russia, the Americans have joined the war. 294 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,200 Both events are a further drain on our military, our economy... 295 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,120 ...our manpower, our food supply. 296 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,960 We cannot store these Jews. 297 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,800 Emigration is over. 298 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,680 And the inevitable solution is what we, together at this table... 299 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,480 ...will discuss this afternoon. 300 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:22,000 We'll go on. You'll find a document listing the remaining Jewish population... 301 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,880 ...by country in Europe... 302 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,760 ...and whatever the USSR or Russia calls itself for the time it has left. 303 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,120 As I mentioned, emigration policy will stop... 304 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:34,440 I apologize, sir. A call for Gen. Heydrich. 305 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,320 - See who it is, and end the calls. - Yes, sir. 306 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,120 We will take but a moment. 307 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,960 Please sit, Dr. Kritzinger. 308 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,680 Make us all comfortable. 309 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:04,200 Where is this going? 310 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,120 Yes, this is Lt. Col. Eichmann. 311 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,040 I understand, Major, but the General is to be free of calls at this time. 312 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,920 If you wish to explain the matter to me... 313 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,800 Yes? 314 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,720 Yes, I'm sure if you call his office, you... 315 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,520 Yes. Heil Hitler. 316 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,320 This meeting is not taking place. 317 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,240 You are to take no phone calls for anyone at this meeting. 318 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,120 Anyone. 319 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:35,000 Unless the Führer calls, and he won't. 320 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,840 - Understood? - Yes, sir. 321 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,680 Here is Field Marshall Reichenau strapped to a chair... 322 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,560 ...and put, convulsing, on the plane, where he dies. 323 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,480 He wanted to retreat as deeply as Rundstedt did, but... 324 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,360 ...Rundstedt got his medal and Reichenau, the hereafter. 325 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,200 Maj. Schussheim was reluctant to give me any message. 326 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,480 He does not appreciate you as I do. 327 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:58,960 Emigration. 328 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,880 The policy to replace that of emigration, and we have enough experience... 329 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,720 ...to do it well, is evacuation. 330 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,640 Which differs from emigration in what way? Evacuation to where? 331 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,040 Let us postpone that question for a while. 332 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,400 - To hell, one hopes. - Many already have. 333 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,280 - Do they even have a hell? - They do now. We provide it. 334 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:19,160 We have received assurances that these Jews are held in livable conditions. 335 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:22,520 You are postponing, that is your prerogative. 336 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,920 Will I have an opportunity to be heard on this? 337 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,840 On my word of honor. 338 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,720 If I may. 339 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,600 132,000 Jews left in Germany proper. 340 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,480 Austria: 43,700. Occupied Eastern Territories: 420,000. 341 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,280 General Government: 2,284,000. 342 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,160 Bialystok: 400,000, and Moravia: 74,200. 343 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,000 - Estonia: Not a one. - The best thing I've heard about Estonia. 344 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,880 You have the list, I won't read it all. Plenty in France, Romania, England. 345 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:51,800 USSR: 5 million. 346 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,640 In what is, or will be soon, our sphere of control over 11 million chosen people. 347 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,480 - The changing definitions? - Yes, go ahead. 348 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,360 Except that there are countries that define Jewishness non-racially... 349 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,240 ...merely as a religious practice: England, America. 350 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,080 Therefore, by our racial principles... 351 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,000 ...there may be many additional uncounted Israelites. 352 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,880 And he speaks Jewish. He does! 353 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,760 He does! 354 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,640 What, then, confronts us here... 355 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,520 ...in open discussion, which will inform the choices we must make... 356 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,400 ...is what to do... 357 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,280 ...to deal with this staggering number of Jews overwhelming us. 358 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,120 My suggestion is to take all able-bodied Jews... 359 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,000 ...separated according to sex, to the East... 360 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,920 ...to work in units, specifically for road building. 361 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,800 Yes. Can we be practical? 362 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,680 You are hardly describing the promised livable conditions for these people. 363 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,520 On the face of it, your plan... 364 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,400 ...excuse me, does not succeed. 365 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,200 It is fanciful. 366 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:58,040 You have, in this collection here... 367 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,960 ...five million Russo-European Jews: 10% agriculture... 368 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,840 ...15% urban workers, tradesmen: Almost 20%... 369 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,720 ...bureaucrats: Almost 24%... 370 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,560 ...doctors, writers, journalists, actors and so on: Almost 33%. 371 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,440 Building roads? 372 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,320 75% of your five million have not picked up anything heavier than a pencil. 373 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,120 Yes, and most will be casualties, eliminated by natural causes. 374 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,000 We intend to be complete. We will comb Europe from west to east... 375 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,840 ...starting with the protectorates, Bohemia and Moravia. 376 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,680 We will evacuate them first. All to-be-evacuated Jews, group by group... 377 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,000 ...will be sent to, call them transit ghettos, 378 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,560 and then transported to the east. 379 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:37,480 - Please... - You want yours first! I understand. 380 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,360 Let me make my case, you'll be heard. 381 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,280 When, in your plan, do you take their women away? 382 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,160 How they love to make the beast. 383 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,040 Control yourself. 384 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,920 Jews who have beyond 65 years will be moved into old-age ghettos... 385 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,800 ...possibly Theresienstadt will be chosen, where they can expire at their own speed. 386 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,680 We will sweep all wounded Jewish veterans... 387 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,560 ...and those given military decorations. 388 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,480 The Iron Cross, first class, that fine distinction will be abandoned. 389 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,320 They go, too, into the old-age ghettos... 390 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:08,200 ...or we will be drowning in requests for exemptions and interventions. 391 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,080 I was referring to intervention of another kind... 392 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:12,960 ...below the waist. 393 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,840 This is all very beguiling, but when you include privileges for certain Jews... 394 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,640 ...the Party Chancellery sees its interest a certain way. 395 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,480 And Martin Bormann, I can speak for him... 396 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,320 ...has his authority as well from the Führer. 397 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:32,200 We do not just surrender our prerogative to decide Jew questions. 398 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,800 Everyone's point of view will be considered. 399 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,640 Did you ever see an animal with two heads? 400 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,520 They do not live. 401 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,400 Want to see Bormann and Göring fight it out? 402 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,320 We are not trying to roll over anyone, quite the opposite. 403 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:55,200 Does anyone else want to raise this question now? 404 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,480 Because I have been asked to direct the release of Germany and all of Europe... 405 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,000 ...from the Jewish stranglehold, and I believe, together, we will. 406 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,760 But the brief remains clear: All of Europe... 407 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,640 ...England, from Lapland to Libya, from Vladivostok to Belfast... 408 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,000 ...no Jews. 409 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,320 Not one. 410 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,960 I propose that the appropriate expert from the Foreign Ministry... 411 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,320 ...act as channel to the SS security police in each country. 412 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,680 I'm counting on you to be my link to the Foreign Ministry. 413 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,440 I think, having explained in general what we are challenged to do... 414 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,280 ...I would be grateful for comments and questions. 415 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,000 Let us have some refreshment in here. 416 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,160 Pretend we are the directors of I. G. Farben. 417 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,000 - That's how they do it, yes? - That is how we do it. 418 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,840 My friend, I have read your recommendations. 419 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,720 I appreciate the effort and the thought. 420 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,600 I heard some of what I wrote in what you already said. 421 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,400 I think not. 422 00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,960 I hear that Heydrich has a little Jew blood in him. 423 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,720 Why don't you ask him? 424 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,640 - The numbers are misleading. - Misleading? 425 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,520 "Who is a Jew?" is another question. 426 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,400 - They're not a heterogeneous... - Not a heterogeneous population. 427 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,160 And how is it that you can speak Hebrew? 428 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,040 Or is it only Yiddish you speak? 429 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,920 I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words. 430 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,840 Jewish, Yiddish, what they were, not enough to speak. 431 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:43,760 So I went in search of a rabbi. 432 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,440 Rabbi means "teacher," I came to find out. 433 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,080 May I tell you the Lord's honest truth? 434 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,440 So many of our highest ranking officers... 435 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,360 ...whose responsibility it is to deal with the Israelites... 436 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,200 ...they make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head. 437 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:01,040 I went to visit this rabbi, old man, long beard, in his one-room flat. 438 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,880 And when he saw me, his eyes grew as large as hen's eggs. 439 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,720 I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed. 440 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,600 And he said that he would, but that he would charge me, of course. 441 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,480 I applied to my commander for funds, and I was denied. 442 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,360 I've run into this opposition all my life, so I paid my own money. 443 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,240 Very little, not much. 444 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,160 And he taught me some vocabulary and letters of the alphabet. 445 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,000 Looking back, I realize, it was poor judgment on my part... 446 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,920 ...because I could've so easily had the old man put into prison... 447 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,760 ...and demanded lessons from him in his cell, free of charge. 448 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,640 One day, he went out. 449 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,560 He was rounded up and shipped off... 450 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,440 ...because he had gone out unadvisedly. 451 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,320 And I thought: 452 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,720 "That's so stupid. " 453 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,040 Why are they so stupid? 454 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,960 Didn't he know that I would've protected him? 455 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,920 At least until my lessons were complete. 456 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:55,760 I want to be through by 2:30 or earlier. 457 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,640 There's no reason why we can't continue. I prefer you all at the table. 458 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,520 - There will be a buffet lunch. - Excellent. 459 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,440 Settle down, we're moving along. You have the overall idea... 460 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,360 ...but it's clear some areas will evacuate swiftly... 461 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,160 - What about our friends the Italians? - The Italians. 462 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,080 We must all trust the good Lord to save us from our Italian friends. 463 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,920 In the last analysis, if they don't purge their Jews... 464 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,800 ...we'll go down and accomplish it and put their priorities in order. 465 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,680 In France, even where we aren't occupying, they'll ship their Jews out. 466 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,560 Here is another problem. 467 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,440 The Foreign Ministry sees difficulty in evacuating too fast... 468 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,840 ...in Scandinavia, as you say, Lapland. 469 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,200 Unless we tie up a lot more troops there... 470 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,120 ...troops which we need for the Russian campaign, Moscow... 471 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,040 ...the Scandinavians will not cooperate. 472 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,920 What do you see for the rest of Europe? 473 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,840 The Foreign Ministry sees no difficulty with the Balkans... 474 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,160 ...Southeast and Western Europe. This is very good. 475 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:48,600 - Sir. - Yes? 476 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,520 The Race and Settlement main office is planning on sending an expert... 477 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,360 ...to Hungary for general orientation on our policies. 478 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:58,240 I think that should take place at the same time as you send your advisor. 479 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,120 It will put some iron in the glove, so to speak. 480 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,000 The glove is iron, and there should be no confusion as to where policy emanates. 481 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,760 I should hope that established relationships will be maintained. 482 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:11,680 If they are productive, but not if they are not... 483 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,520 ...if I may speak for the group. 484 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,200 - It is not my intention... - What is your intention? 485 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,080 The work done by our department. Our particular expert is prepared... 486 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,960 We both serve the Führer, he gave me the command. 487 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,880 I suggest your advisor serve as an assistant to my man. 488 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,760 That preserves the relative powers of our offices, does it not? 489 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,320 Yes, it certainly does. That is how it should be. 490 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,200 I will leave it to you, then, to be in touch with Col. Eichmann? 491 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,000 Yes. 492 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,920 Settled. Moving along. Now, a difficult problem. 493 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,800 My instinct is to be Alexandrian... 494 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,680 ...and solve a difficult tangle with a sharp, clean stroke this afternoon. 495 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,560 All our actions must be predicated on law. 496 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,520 Everything we've done is from the Nuremberg Laws... 497 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,400 ...which Dr. Stuckart brought forth to the Reichstag in 1935. 498 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,280 We now have to examine the Blood and Honor laws... 499 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:13,120 ...in regard to the problems of mixed marriages and persons of mixed blood. 500 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,960 Not only who is a Jew, but how, in each defined circumstance... 501 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,800 ...the Jew is expunged from society, the government, the economy... 502 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:22,720 ...through ordinances. 503 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,600 The tapestry, if you'll permit some pride. 504 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:29,480 The exemptions written into the law allow too many Jews to remain among us. 505 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,280 We address that problem by examining each category and every exemption. 506 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,120 There's been communication with the Chancellery Head... 507 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,040 ...Lammers, who discussed these questions with the Führer. 508 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,440 You asked why you are here. You represent him. 509 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,800 And your own opinion. We would like that, too. 510 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,680 Lammers has indeed met with the Führer or his staff on this question... 511 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:49,600 ...and reached an understanding. 512 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,480 Dr. Kritzinger, can we come to a further understanding here? 513 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:55,360 What can we all agree on? 514 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,240 What I would like agreed here is that mixed-blood persons of the first degree... 515 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,040 ...they have two Jewish grandparents, they are half-Jews... 516 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,880 ...they are just Jews. They go. Their children go. 517 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,760 There are, in the law, as of now, two exceptions. If you would... 518 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,600 For first-degree mixed, if married to Germans with children... 519 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,520 ...they're exempted. 520 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,920 Their children, second-degree mixed, would be treated as Germans. 521 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,280 The other exception is first-degree mixed who the Reich has chosen... 522 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,160 ...to honor with privilege for whatever reason. 523 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,080 We are talking here of men and women who live as Germans. 524 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,880 They do not worship or behave as Jews, but... 525 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,800 ...have some quantity of blood. - The genetic Jew. 526 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,680 In those cases, we'll examine each determination... 527 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,560 ...and perhaps revoke their exemption. 528 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,480 - The Nuremberg Laws... - Whoever receives exemption... 529 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,320 ...better have extraordinary merits, not just a German parent, husband or wife. 530 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:50,160 Those who are exempt from evacuation, they too will fall in certain categories... 531 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:51,080 Could you, General... Sorry. 532 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,920 I have the real feeling I evacuated 30,000 Jews already, by shooting them at Riga. 533 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,680 Is what I did evacuation? 534 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,520 When they fell, were they evacuated? 535 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,400 There are another 20,000, at least, waiting for similar evacuation. 536 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,160 I just think it is helpful to know what words mean. 537 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,960 With all respect. 538 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,760 If I might, I think it's unnecessary to burden the record... 539 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,600 Yes. In my personal opinion, they are evacuated. 540 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,480 - Explain. - I have just done so. 541 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,400 That is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. 542 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,240 I have directly been assured! 543 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,000 Purge the Jews, yes. But to annihilate them... 544 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,720 That we have undertaken to systematically... 545 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,640 ...annihilate all the Jews of Europe? 546 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,480 No. That possibility... 547 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,360 ...has personally been denied to me by the Führer. 548 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,080 And it will continue to be. 549 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,600 Yes, I understand. 550 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,400 Yes. 551 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,280 He will continue to deny it. 552 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,080 My apologies. 553 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,960 Do you accept my apologies? 554 00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,320 Of course. 555 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:00,800 So very kind. 556 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,080 - Close the doors, please. - Those mixed in the first degree. 557 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,440 Yes, those mixed in the first degree, who are exempted... 558 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,320 ...will be sterilized. 559 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,160 May I just point out, in regard to special exemptions... 560 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,080 ...it's widely known, I've heard the opinion expressed myself... 561 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,920 ...that there are 80 million good Germans... 562 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,800 ...and each one knows his "decent Jew," even if he regards all the rest as vermin. 563 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,600 If there are decent Jews, then before they are decent and indeed after, they are Jews. 564 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,440 No. First-degree exempted will be sterilized. 565 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,320 No more children, and eventually, no more mixed blood, once and for all. 566 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,200 It is important to know what words mean. 567 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:39,120 But it's important to remember in 1,000 years... 568 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,000 ...no matter who holds the power, history will be written in those words. 569 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,800 Do you expect the men serenely to submit to being sterilized? 570 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,600 Why not? They've already had their cocks clipped. 571 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,520 It's voluntary. One can lose one's possibility to reproduce... 572 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,400 ...or one can be evacuated. 573 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,320 If a first-mixed is sterilized, of course, the Nuremberg restrictions don't apply. 574 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,160 - The Nuremberg Laws are very specific... - When I am done. 575 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,040 Thank you. Please. 576 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,960 As to second-degree mixed, those born to a half-Jew and German... 577 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,800 ...or one-quarter Jew, three-quarters German, equals German. 578 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,680 With exceptions: If both parents are mixed-blood, the child's a Jew. 579 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,520 If the child looks or sounds Jewish, even with only one-quarter mixed... 580 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:20,480 When that blood is dominant. 581 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,360 Then he is a Jew. 582 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,280 Third: A mixed-second with a criminal or political record... 583 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,160 Excuse me, sir, is this a second or a third? 584 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,040 A mixed-second. 585 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,960 - Third exception. - Third exception. 586 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,880 In other words, he that behaves like a Jew will be considered as such. 587 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,240 If any of these second-mixed exceptions marry a German... 588 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,560 ...then they will be evacuated, no special dispensations. 589 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,440 - The marriage laws are very complex... - Mixed marriages include German relatives. 590 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,280 They have a vested interest in the couple, also in children born to the marriage. 591 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,160 So here it is. 592 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080 Marriages between mixed-firsts and Germans, if they have had no children... 593 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,920 ...depending on repercussions on the German side... 594 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,840 ...either the half-Jew is evacuated, or to the old-age ghetto. 595 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,640 - Theresienstadt. - Possibly. Somewhere. 596 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,520 The same holds true for the full-blood Jew with a German wife or husband. 597 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,360 If there are children, if the rules classify them as Jews... 598 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,200 ...they go with the Jew parent, evacuation or ghetto, depending on the case. 599 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:18,080 If they're classified as German, that spares both the child and the Jew parent. 600 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,000 Jews of first-mixed married to first-mixed are Jews. 601 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:21,880 Children as well, treated as such. 602 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,760 First-mixed married to second-mixed and children, the same. 603 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,640 Unless they're exempted by special considerations, they are gone. 604 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,480 Otherwise to the ghetto, possibly Theresienstadt. 605 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,240 In all cases, the SS will be the determining agency. 606 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,840 No question lingers in your mind about that, does it? 607 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,480 Sterilization will be a growth industry. 608 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,400 Who would not choose infertility to avoid evacuation? 609 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,280 - They would never know. - Would never know what? 610 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,160 If you use a word other than "sterilize"... 611 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,080 You think they would never know? 612 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,520 It is simply a matter of secrecy. 613 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:09,920 The smell of blood carries very far. 614 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,800 I find the plan unworkable. I find the plan personally insulting. 615 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,120 I have given years to codifying the laws regarding interracial marriage. 616 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,480 Now I'm presented with this clumsy, forgive me, unworkable structure. 617 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,240 My work, these laws, any legal code worthy of the name... 618 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,120 ...restricts the enforcers of law as well as its subjects. 619 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,960 There are some things you cannot do. 620 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,760 As you see it. 621 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,640 What I see is all I have to contribute here. 622 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,440 Let me offer a modification, a simple change we can all accept. 623 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,280 Maybe this helps the outline. 624 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,160 Sir, what you have suggested, and not to put too fine a point on it... 625 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,000 ...you have said the half-mixed will be eliminated. 626 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,800 - Evacuated. - "Evacuated. " My mistake. 627 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,680 That is a wholesale departure from the law. But my suggestion... 628 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:06,560 Yes, which is? 629 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:10,440 I say the half-mixed should get the choice we talked about... 630 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,280 ...to be either sterilized or taken away. 631 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,200 Does that not come closer to the spirit, at least, of the Nuremberg Law? 632 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,040 - Dr. Stuckart, does it? - No. 633 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,880 Sorry, no. Sterilization is promising... 634 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,240 ...but attempting a supersession of what are clearly defined laws... 635 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,600 ...in order to impose all these subjective evaluations, it's like... 636 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,440 Forgive me, it is like the imposing of ad hoc law. 637 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,360 Depending on subjective evaluations, as to if he looks Jewish... 638 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,240 ...or has a Jewish personality, or whatever else... 639 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,080 ...is subject to interpretation and variation... 640 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,000 ...including the assertions of the damned Jew himself. 641 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,880 What does this do? It subverts the Nuremberg Laws... 642 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,760 ...and perpetuates disrespect for the law. 643 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,680 I think we are basing our proposals carefully... 644 00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,600 No, with all due respect and all frankness, it's a tangle. 645 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,480 And this is not pride of authorship. 646 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,360 I'm simply reacting to the bureaucratic train wreck that's to follow. 647 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,120 Please, it is simply solved. Sterilize them all. 648 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,800 We could call it "medical re-socialization" or something. 649 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:15,720 We can find ways. 650 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,560 The biological necessities are all met. My... 651 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:23,440 The Nuremberg Laws are respected, a simple procedure... 652 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:24,400 A snip here, a snip there... 653 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,280 This is not a joke! 654 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,200 - It is not... - X-rays. 655 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:32,040 - That is how you do it. - Exactly how? 656 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,880 You have this X-ray machine built into a counter or a desk. 657 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:39,760 Some unfortunate Jew stands at attention in front of the desk, and... 658 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:41,640 I am not coming to your office. 659 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,520 So you either raise the desk or lower the desk, depending on... 660 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:48,360 A certain subterfuge... 661 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,280 - I do not know if it sterilizes the female. - A technical question. 662 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,160 Not voluntary, you're saying? 663 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,080 Every Jew, of whatever degree, whoever betrothed to... 664 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,480 ...however mixed, whatever service to the state. 665 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,800 You're saying we don't need to evacuate them... 666 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,720 - We pinch off the race at this generation. - The Reich's law... 667 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,600 We make the law we need. Why am I telling you this? 668 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,440 How many lawyers are in this room? Raise your hand. 669 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:21,080 Jesus Christ. It's worse than I thought. 670 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,880 The children, what then for them? 671 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,840 You just line them up in front of their desks... 672 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,720 ...and X-rays toast their little gonads. 673 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,520 If I might, for perspective: 674 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,400 We have already been using sterilization for the mentally defective... 675 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,280 ...since 1939 in our T4 program. 676 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,120 - T4? - "Euthanasia" is the correct term, yes? 677 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,000 Yes. Reichsführer Himmler discussed it with the General. 678 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,880 Apparently, a doctor at the biological institute in Dresden has a simple injection. 679 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,720 You can father no children. 680 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,640 - Where can I get it? - It would be useful with the ladies. 681 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:56,560 "I am fixed, my dear. " 682 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,440 Of course, it is as yet only tested with mice and rats. 683 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,320 Actually, you would not need the injection, just the papers to say that you had had it. 684 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,520 I have figures, but they're not exact. 685 00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,200 Between 1933 and 1936, roughly 169,000... 686 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:15,760 ...and by now, to date, possibly 300,000... 687 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,680 ...under the Law for the Protection of German Blood... 688 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:21,520 ...have been sterilized by various methods. 689 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,400 X- rays, injecting some corrosive chemical directly into the womb... 690 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,200 Yes, this was only for the Reich itself, not occupied territories. 691 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,000 - Yes. - Yes. 692 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,960 Are they fit for labor after these methods? 693 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,800 With the X-rays, it's a problem of dosage. Less a problem, I think, with the women. 694 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,600 Less a problem with the women. 695 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,520 Secretary Bühler makes an important point. 696 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,360 - Labor. - Yes, exactly. Labor. 697 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,280 I'm not implying that our problems are the same... 698 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,120 ...as in the Eastern Territories, but the need for workers... 699 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,960 ...as the military need men, the need for production is only growing. 700 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,800 That is why sterilization is the preferred option. 701 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,600 It leaves our captive workforce, what remains of it... 702 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,480 I do not think our people want to wait a generation to end this problem. 703 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,320 We have deferred Jews by the thousands in armaments, construction. 704 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:21,080 Wait, I can give you an exemplar. 705 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,960 It's just a quote from a letter from the Debruder Public Company... 706 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,800 ...but there are many companies... 707 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,680 The sound of his voice, and the sun goes down. 708 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,560 - The specialist for I. G. Farben... - I do not think you understand... 709 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,400 Over 10,000 Jews in the metal industry alone... 710 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,280 ...about 19,000 altogether in Berlin, and that's just Berlin... 711 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,120 ...failing our production goals, even now, for the war! 712 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,960 He makes a point. We are moving too fast here. 713 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,840 Nothing has been thought through. 714 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,760 The questions of sterilization and deportation are separate. 715 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,600 - Yes, but linked. - Deportation, evacuation, elimination. 716 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,520 Where I am, we have to move them out now, quickly, wipe them away. 717 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,400 - Yeah, not to return. - Never to return. 718 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,280 There are labor shortages in the Reich and elsewhere we control. 719 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,160 - There is no argument about that. - Everywhere, and in our four-year plan... 720 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,000 Not that fucking four-year plan again. 721 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,880 But our war is against the Jews. I do not see the logic... 722 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:17,800 We won't sterilize them and wait until they die, or sterilize and exterminate the race. 723 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,640 That's farcical. Dead people don't hump or get pregnant. 724 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,480 Death is the most reliable form of sterilization. Put it that way. 725 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,160 So who is deferred? 726 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,040 First-degree mixed married to Germans with second-degree children are exempt. 727 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,880 Individually, first-degree mixed who have special privilege. 728 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,800 - For labor, if needed... - I can't give a rule for everything. 729 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,640 Can I just say one word more? 730 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,520 In the obligation to maintain a lawful society... 731 00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:50,400 Another lecture. 732 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,320 ...what we would be saying to those... 733 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,240 Where we depart from the law in deporting a Jew married... 734 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,120 Good! Deport them! 735 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,040 - A new law will be required... - Write it! Why don't you write it? 736 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,840 Consider: The Jews are taken away. 737 00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,760 The German spouses will inherit the property of the Jewish spouses... 738 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,640 ...go to court, and apply for a death certificate. 739 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,520 What happens to your secret killings then? 740 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,400 No matter what you call them, the secret is out, dear friends. 741 00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,200 Perhaps not inheritance. Perhaps divorce, freedom to remarry. 742 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,080 So a requisite divorce mechanism... 743 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,000 ...dealing with these marriages to be terminated... 744 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,880 ...becomes the Reich's responsibility to its German citizens. 745 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,720 - Fuck. - I am speaking. 746 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,560 Except for those initiated before the spouse is deported... 747 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,440 ...the courts will be so busy with divorces, they'll be on 24-hour shifts. 748 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:42,240 - The litigation wait will be decades. - Or longer. 749 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,120 I have no sympathy with Germans who climbed in bed with members of the tribe. 750 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,920 Nor do I. I ask myself, "What is his concern?" 751 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,800 When the ruling principle of our government and our party... 752 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,680 ...is to make Germany Jew-free, you are arguing to let these Yids stay? 753 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,480 To influence, to operate freely, with the exception that you neuter them? 754 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,360 They are not free. 755 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,280 The law restricts them, it isolates them. I am merely speaking of... 756 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,120 - Perhaps the judge has love for them. - Yes, special love. 757 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,920 For whom? For Jews? 758 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,800 Wonderful. You don't have my credentials. 759 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,680 Forgive me. From your uniform, I can see that you're shallow... 760 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:22,600 ...ignorant, and naive about the Jews. 761 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,440 Your line, what the Party rants on about... 762 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,360 ...is how inferior they are, some subspecies... 763 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,200 ...and I keep saying how wrong that is! 764 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:36,080 They are sublimely clever! And they are intelligent as well. 765 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,880 My indictments to them are stronger because they are real... 766 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:41,800 ...not your uneducated ideology. 767 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,680 They are arrogant, self-obsessed, calculating and reject the Christ. 768 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:47,560 I won't have them pollute German blood. 769 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,520 - Please, Doctor. - He doesn't understand. 770 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,400 And neither do his people. 771 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,280 Deal with the reality of the Jew, and the world will applaud us. 772 00:45:56,240 --> 00:46:00,080 Treat them as imaginary phantoms, evil, inhuman fantasies... 773 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,000 ...and the world will have justified contempt for us. 774 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,840 To kill them without regard for the law martyrs them... 775 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,720 ...which will be their victory. 776 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,600 Sterilization recognizes them as a part of our species... 777 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:15,440 ...but prevents them from being a part of our race. 778 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:17,320 They'll disappear soon enough. 779 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,240 And we will have acted in defense of our race and of our species... 780 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,120 ...and by the law. 781 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,040 He spoke of the Law for the Protection of German Blood. 782 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,920 I wrote that law. 783 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,840 When you have my credentials, then we'll discuss... 784 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,680 ...who loves the Jews and who hates them. 785 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:37,520 Pigs don't know how to hate. 786 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,400 I know, too, when it comes to the half-mixed... 787 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,240 ...that to kill them abandons that half of their blood which is German. 788 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:47,120 I'll remember you. 789 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,960 You should. I'm very well known. 790 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,800 - We should take a moment just to... - Absolutely. 791 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,680 If I may, for a moment. 792 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:01,560 Dr. Stuckart has raised the question of administrative consequences of evacuation. 793 00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,360 He is a very brilliant scholar of the law... 794 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,240 ...and, I'm sure, just as totally committed to a Jew-free Europe as any of us. 795 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,520 Let us take a moment. 796 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,880 Go on with the food. 797 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,200 More lemon. 798 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:37,080 If you are suggesting that you have dominion over me, just remember this: 799 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,880 Even the Party, which I have served loyally since 1922... 800 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:43,760 ...answers to the government. 801 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,640 They both answer to the Führer. You may be a friend of Göring... 802 00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,040 ...but if you're a betting man, put your money on Bormann. 803 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,360 Hear you've been flying that little plane of yours. 804 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,240 This morning, yes. 805 00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,120 I'm never comfortable off the ground. Not me, I admit. 806 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,040 Nietzsche advises the secret to enjoying life is to live dangerously. 807 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,880 He enjoyed it so much he went mad. 808 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,800 Look at the world, and tell me the pleasures of sanity. 809 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:08,720 Excuse me, Doctor. 810 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,600 Would you join me for a moment? Thank you. 811 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,800 We will accomplish this. 812 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,680 I will not allow administrative technicalities to slow it down. 813 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:39,480 Every agency will jump to follow my order, or arses will sting. 814 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,360 And there are no shortages of meat hooks on which to hang enemies of the state. 815 00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:49,080 This will be an SS operation. 816 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,960 And as the war goes on, the SS will more and more command the agenda... 817 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:56,800 ...and put marks against the names of the less than cooperative. 818 00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:57,720 You have a choice to make. 819 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,640 You understand that I respect the... 820 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:02,520 Please. 821 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,480 You will still have to make your choice. 822 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,360 Do not let a strutting... 823 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:10,240 ...imbecilic, porcine prick like Klopfer make it for you. 824 00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,080 I'd rather not see the bullies... 825 00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,000 ...I admit we have more than our share of them in the SS... 826 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,840 ...take too much of an interest in you. 827 00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,600 - Interest in me? - Do you not think? 828 00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,000 And all I want from this meeting is unanimity... 829 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:31,360 ...and no trouble getting what has to be done, done. 830 00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:36,160 With you at my side, so much is possible. 831 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:48,600 I've done this arithmetic. 832 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,480 The real size of the labor force is already a million less than the figures show. 833 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,400 The economic considerations are not the only considerations. 834 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,240 I'll say they're not. Have you done the extrapolations? 835 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,080 My friend, with due respect, may I say, "Fuck the extrapolations"? 836 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,760 I hope you understand, I want to be as useful as I can. 837 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:14,560 - We must be in contact. - Exactly. 838 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:22,240 No one listens. 839 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:26,080 From where he sits, he does not have the ghettoes or the stink. 840 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,960 And he's burglarizing administrative control from the Governor-General. 841 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,800 - Privileges of rank. - I don't hear any urgency. 842 00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,680 Privileges of rank. The higher you go, the more infallibility is bestowed. 843 00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:39,560 But I don't hear any cut-the-bureaucracy solutions. 844 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,440 Our problems. 845 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,360 You're right. He does not have our problems. 846 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,240 Crap. "The privileges of rank. " 847 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:50,120 All that matters is the SS blood group tattooed under your arm. 848 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,040 That's a secret password for you people. 849 00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:53,920 What are these suspicions? 850 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,800 I will tell you this: When cholera hits the ghettoes, and typhoid... 851 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,640 ...your tattoos won't protect you from shitting your guts out... 852 00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,520 ...until you dry up and die. 853 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,360 Then tell me about infallibility. 854 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,760 Those little Nuremberg country sausages, the gritty little ones. 855 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,120 - You can keep your oysters. What is that? - Can you get them here? 856 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,960 - Lange? - Yes, sir? 857 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,840 Who were those 30,000 you say you shot, when you say you shot? 858 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,680 In Riga, Latvia. 859 00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:27,560 27,800 I have some responsibility for. 860 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,360 And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. 861 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:38,120 I received memos directing the, one would say, "evacuation" of Jews... 862 00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,920 ...who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. 863 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,680 Not exactly war, is it? 864 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:52,560 - And gas chambers about to come? - What gas chambers? 865 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,440 Gas chambers? 866 00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,320 I hear rumors, yes. 867 00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:04,040 This is more than war. 868 00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,920 - Must be a different word for this. - Try "chaos. " 869 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,760 Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession. 870 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,600 I studied law as well. 871 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,520 How do you apply that education to what you do? 872 00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,360 It has made me distrustful of language. 873 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,160 A gun means what it says. 874 00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:29,000 Do we need all this discussion? 875 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,880 - He has his style. - Yes. Very persuasive. 876 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,680 Is there a problem, Doctor? 877 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:40,560 He is non compos mentis. 878 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,840 - It's your boss. - On your feet. 879 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,480 Beautiful lake. Is it not? I'm sorry. 880 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:09,360 After the war, I shall live in this house and rise to see that lake every day... 881 00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:14,160 ...and dream comforting things. 882 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,000 I am a dreamer, as I think you are. 883 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,880 Yes, it is a dream world. 884 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,800 Maj. Lange, how can I help you? 885 00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,680 Politics is a nasty game. 886 00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:29,520 I think soldiering requires the discipline to do the unthinkable... 887 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,360 ...and politics requires the skill... 888 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,760 ...to get someone else to do the unthinkable for you. 889 00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,120 But we need the politics, so we put up with them. 890 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:42,960 - At least for now. - Yes. 891 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,840 We look forward to a better day. 892 00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:48,720 A peaceful world. 893 00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,120 A German culture triumphant. 894 00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,240 That is what we work for. 895 00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:58,320 I appreciate the words, sir. 896 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,720 We are servant-soldiers, are we not? 897 00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,080 - Yes, that is what we are. - Indeed. 898 00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:09,880 Did you ask him? 899 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,760 Ask him what? 900 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,640 - Does he have a little Jewish blood? - No, not yet. 901 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,440 Inform me when he answers. 902 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:27,120 That's what I heard. 903 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,040 A grandmother or a grandfather. 904 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,880 His father. 905 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,760 That's the rumor, and if it is true, how happy would he be to tell you? 906 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,520 - I want a work document in two days. - Yes. 907 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,400 - No more than 30 copies. - Yes, sir. 30 numbered. 908 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:48,280 And those spools, the stenotype record, have it destroyed. 909 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:50,200 Yes, sir. 910 00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:54,040 - Let's get them back in here. - All right. 911 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,880 - Who's up there, sir? - Dr. Klopfer. 912 00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:00,760 Kritzinger is... 913 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,600 The gentleman outside walking: Find him. 914 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,160 Sir? 915 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:20,960 It has got colder. 916 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:29,560 What a pretty little maid. 917 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:33,440 I would like to remind all of you that our Führer enunciates the goals. 918 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,280 It is our task to turn his vision into reality. 919 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,200 We can debate the "how" and the "when" up to a point. 920 00:55:39,240 --> 00:55:42,040 We can not debate the "if," Dr. Stuckart. 921 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,920 - I am not purposely contentious. - Nor was I trying to be insulting. 922 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,640 I would like to try... 923 00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:01,280 We will now discuss method. Who would like to speak on this? 924 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:04,120 What is being advocated here? 925 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:08,000 A law dissolving all marriages between mixed and German? 926 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,880 - Why not? - Courts adjust. 927 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,840 As we all do. That is not the point. 928 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,720 You're too inflexible, my friend. 929 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,560 You know damn well the courts will be happy to be rid of the problem. 930 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:21,440 I'm pointing out a problem of casting every Jew and non-Jew into a sausage machine. 931 00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,280 If that's the plan, I'm asking that some legal framework be built. 932 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:27,200 Let's do it. If we skip a few steps, so be it. 933 00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:29,080 "Skip a few steps!" 934 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:32,040 When you plane down a piece of wood, a few chips go flying. 935 00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:33,960 Jews or judges, who are the chips? 936 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,800 I would like to say... 937 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:40,640 ...in this discussion, regarding the tone, first... 938 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,440 ...abandon your misperception that Dr. Stuckart has affection for the Jews. 939 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:49,280 I'm sure he does not, and his heart is pure. He believes in supremacy of law. 940 00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:53,120 Jews... 941 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,960 ...in any event, will vanish soon enough from Germany. 942 00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,320 But the method, yes. 943 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,640 You accept, casually... 944 00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:07,520 ...the obliteration of legal distinctions... 945 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,400 ...and the use of extreme, inconceivable measures... 946 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,280 ...that, I say again, that our Chancellery was assured would not be used. 947 00:57:15,240 --> 00:57:18,080 That is where we have come. 948 00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:21,960 A soldier cannot decide where he chooses to fight. 949 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:22,880 Where are we here? 950 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,800 Gen. Heydrich invited your opinions on the methodology. 951 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:26,720 Indeed. 952 00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,640 I can say this. 953 00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:32,520 You're going to have your work cut out with the Catholic church... 954 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,400 ...with the Reich divorcing all those Catholics. 955 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,320 That's not going to make our priests very comfortable... 956 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:38,240 ...or the Vatican. 957 00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:42,120 The Vatican has no love for the Jew. Why should they interfere? 958 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,040 The Lutherans would not object either. 959 00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:45,920 I agree with Dr. Stuckart. 960 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,800 The problems outweigh the short-term ideological satisfactions. 961 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,680 Military necessity comes first. Am I wrong? 962 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,560 Why can this not be simpler? 963 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,440 The Ministry of Justice, which I represent, can live with it gladly. 964 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,240 Maj. Lange, an opinion? 965 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,120 General... 966 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:09,040 ...I accept the chain of command. I have no other gods before it. 967 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,880 The politics of it all... 968 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:13,800 No, nothing. 969 00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:16,720 - We are more than a nation of armies. - I hope. 970 00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,600 General? 971 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:22,480 If Dr. Stuckart is saying we should turn a few Jew-loving Germans against us... 972 00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,320 ...I would happily throw them all on the same transport. 973 00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,240 It is, however, a political decision, not mine particularly to make. 974 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,120 Can you step back from trying to settle these details today? 975 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,520 Other agencies will want to be heard. 976 00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,880 Now, that is wisdom from my neighbor. 977 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,760 I favor sterilization, I think, but not wholesale... 978 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,520 ...what Gen. Heydrich outlined earlier. Why not? 979 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:48,400 X- rays, injections: Why are we discussing theoretical solutions? 980 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,240 Goethe said that theories are gray, but that real life is green. 981 00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,080 Stop chattering, and be realists here. 982 00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,000 I insist, as I have before, that the best way is the quickest way. 983 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:01,840 Purge them totally off our land, ideally, off our planet. 984 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:08,080 And for the Eastern Territories, leave us able-bodied workers. 985 00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,440 If they are separated, the men from the women, QED, no babies. 986 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,320 And evacuate the others, as you outlined. 987 00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:16,200 Get it done. 988 00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,120 All right, we've gone around. 989 00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,000 I have your opinions. 990 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:24,400 I want to move on. Let's have the food in here. 991 00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,560 I wish to keep going. We can eat while we work. 992 00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,600 To clarify what I agree with and what I do not... 993 00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,520 ...I agree with the doctor about the complications of all the variations. 994 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,360 But I favor deportation or sausage-making, right? 995 00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,120 I hear talk from some of you who live here in Germany about labor force. 996 00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,560 What is the reality, at least for the Polish Jews? 997 00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:47,880 Damn few of them are fit for labor of any kind. 998 00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,520 You do not find Jews with dirt under their fingernails, 999 00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:51,760 so who is this labor force? 1000 00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,600 What we have are ghettoes filled and overfilled... 1001 00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:59,480 ...with the scabrous, the rotting. We do not have the food for them. 1002 00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,360 The stink of their diseases does not stop at the walls. 1003 01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,240 And you ship them up to us by the thousands to deal with. 1004 01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,120 What are we to do? 1005 01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,000 We have no place to put them. 1006 01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,920 We have no more place to put our own. We cannot shoot 3.5 million Jews. 1007 01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,760 We cannot poison them, and we cannot use them. 1008 01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,680 You'll have Maj. Lange and his men come in with their special methods. 1009 01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:22,520 - How many Rigas do we have to have? - Build the wall higher. 1010 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:27,280 What we are asking, before you flood us with all of these Jews... 1011 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:31,160 ...let us first clean out ours, empty our ghettoes into whatever you have for them. 1012 01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:34,000 Military, too. 1013 01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,920 Mass shootings by our groups create morale problems... 1014 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:38,800 ...especially when the Jew is a German Jew... 1015 01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:41,680 ...who is intellectually superior to the Russian Jew. 1016 01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:45,560 Even with local civilians cooperating, mass slaughter leaves a bad taste. 1017 01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:47,440 I can so testify. 1018 01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:50,360 We've had to deal with the backlash when it comes to German ones. 1019 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,200 If your method of disposing all the Jews diverts military units... 1020 01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:57,080 ...and rolling stock from the Eastern Front, then it is a stupid choice. 1021 01:00:57,120 --> 01:00:59,960 Recognizing the priority for ridding ourselves of the Jews... 1022 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,840 I'm not arguing priority, but method and expediency. 1023 01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,680 I'm sorry, why can't you shoot them? 1024 01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,560 Didn't you hear him? It is the worst thing for our soldiers to be doing. 1025 01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,440 They are women and children, and soldiers have a sense of honor. 1026 01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:14,320 Plenty of honor in following orders. 1027 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,240 - Would you like to volunteer? - Enthusiastically. 1028 01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,120 - I will. - You will not. 1029 01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:21,560 Eleven million, even half that, executed in small batches... 1030 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,720 ...would be asinine, for the reasons Dr. Meyer mentioned. 1031 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,800 Inefficient use of time, troops, equipment, bullets. No. 1032 01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,640 As Maj. Lange will learn, using gas is much cheaper and less public. 1033 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,480 Please. 1034 01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,400 The T4 euthanasia program has used injections... 1035 01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,280 ...but most effectively... 1036 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:44,120 ...a carbon-monoxide gas. 1037 01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,960 We began using it on Polish mental patients in Brandenburg in January, 1940. 1038 01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,760 An area is constructed that resembles a shower room or a bath. 1039 01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:57,560 The subjects are brought in naked, as though for a shower... 1040 01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:01,440 ...and outside, stainless-steel tanks pump in pure carbon monoxide... 1041 01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:05,280 ...which, what it does is... 1042 01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:11,040 I have figures. 1043 01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,800 In May, this program was extended to Hartheim and in June at Sonnenstein. 1044 01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:20,640 In the first six months of 1940, 8,765 persons were gassed. 1045 01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:25,400 By the end of 1940, a total of 26,459. 1046 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:28,280 By the end of August last year, another 35,049. 1047 01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:32,160 We terminated this particular program, however, on September 1. 1048 01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:36,000 In the end, 70,273 have been gassed by this method. 1049 01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:39,800 At this time, we began the advanced program. 1050 01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:43,640 - The General Government knew nothing... - Keep going. 1051 01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:47,520 Last summer, we ordered the construction of 20 mobile gassing trucks... 1052 01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:50,440 ...using their redirected exhaust back into the chamber. 1053 01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,240 Three such trucks have been in use since last month. 1054 01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:57,120 - But the Chelmno camp, now Kulmhof... - Already constructed, under our noses. 1055 01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,960 In each truck, you can get in 40 to 60 Jews at a time. 1056 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,840 In fact, the more you have in, the faster it works. 1057 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,720 And the... 1058 01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:09,640 ...carbon monoxide, what it does is... 1059 01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,480 The bodies come out pink. 1060 01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:15,400 - The gas turns them pink. - That's a nice touch. 1061 01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:18,280 If it is already built, what is this meeting? 1062 01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:22,080 Why bother? 1063 01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,960 The system has shown that it works. 1064 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,800 It will work for you. It is settling in. 1065 01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,640 The method is now defined. 1066 01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:36,520 The Jews go in red and come out pink. That is progress. 1067 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,280 I should never mix wine with whiskey. 1068 01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,080 What's the matter? 1069 01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,000 I think I will be all right. 1070 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:50,920 Don't make excuses if you have to leave for a minute. 1071 01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,840 Sort of a headache. 1072 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:56,680 Hurry. 1073 01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,320 Eat. 1074 01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:10,120 - Fucking ridiculous! - Not at all, sir. 1075 01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,960 - It could not be the mixing. - The cigar? 1076 01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:17,800 Everything all right, sir? 1077 01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,640 Could be the cigar. 1078 01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:24,520 I could never abide them. And my father would chew them. 1079 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,400 His mouth was always full of evil juice and pulp! 1080 01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:31,240 It would fill up, and he would have to spit! 1081 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:32,200 I would leave it there, sir. 1082 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:35,040 Cigarettes... 1083 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,480 ...they calm me down. 1084 01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,640 Settle my stomach. 1085 01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:43,720 They calm me down. 1086 01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,520 The problem is, there are not enough of them in the world. 1087 01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:58,120 - We should be in there, should we not? - Yes. 1088 01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:03,880 Sir? 1089 01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:11,560 - Is this clean? - Yes, sir. 1090 01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,480 - Let me have a glass of water. - I brought some out, sir. 1091 01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,360 I'm not addressing you. 1092 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:20,240 - And a bromide tablet of some kind. - You did not like the food? 1093 01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:24,040 I did not eat. 1094 01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,920 - I know of no philosophy... - Philosophy clutters your argument. 1095 01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,680 We have to countenance the suffocating glut of this parasitic people... 1096 01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:36,560 ...consuming our food, contaminating our professions, controlling our currency. 1097 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:38,440 - None of that is true. - In your philosophy. 1098 01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:41,320 Perhaps that's what the chosen people were chosen for. 1099 01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:45,200 No, I apologize. You take a position, you deserve a response. 1100 01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,040 It is a cold winter. 1101 01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:51,440 The war, in spite of the rallies, posters and the radio... 1102 01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:54,800 ...looks like a longer, harder war. The Jews are in the way. 1103 01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,560 And how can I, one rather peripheral figure in your grand plan, be in your way? 1104 01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:06,320 You underestimate your influence. I do not. 1105 01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:10,160 You would be a hard man to bring down. 1106 01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:14,000 But certainly not impossible. 1107 01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:17,840 Did I hear you say earlier, "Be practical"? 1108 01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:18,760 Yes. 1109 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,640 Then this is the moment to be practical... 1110 01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:25,520 ...until a time when Germany can afford your philosophy, which is what? 1111 01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:29,400 "Hound them, impoverish them, exploit them, imprison them... 1112 01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:33,240 "... just do not kill them. " And you are God's noblest of men. 1113 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:37,040 I find that truly remarkable. 1114 01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,840 Sitting at that table, I will ask for your agreement to what has been proposed. 1115 01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:44,720 And I must answer now? 1116 01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:48,560 You will answer now, or you will answer later. 1117 01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:51,440 I will not oppose you. 1118 01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,320 - I want more than that. - Of course. 1119 01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:56,240 Good. 1120 01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,680 We understand each other. 1121 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,040 May I tell you a story? 1122 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,920 - A good one? - A true one. 1123 01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,760 Tell me the story. 1124 01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,640 - It was told to me by a friend of mine. - Yes? 1125 01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:12,560 He knew a man... 1126 01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:16,440 Do you realize how much thought and effort has gone into the Four-Year Plan? 1127 01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,320 Plenty, I'm sure. 1128 01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,240 Reichsmarshal Göring is very clear. 1129 01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,160 The necessities of the war mean that the Jew question has to wait. 1130 01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,040 There's been a new directive. 1131 01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:27,000 That says nothing about a change in priorities. 1132 01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:27,920 - It is implied. - Not by me. 1133 01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:29,880 Why is it your way or nothing? I mean the SS. 1134 01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,760 - Now you understand. - I do not. 1135 01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:33,680 You have stated it. 1136 01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:37,560 - When I report to the Reichsmarshal... - There has been a new directive. 1137 01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:42,360 It has to be as the SS directs. You can't sail a ship with two captains. 1138 01:07:42,400 --> 01:07:44,240 The Führer is the captain. 1139 01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,160 And for this, he has given Heydrich the command. 1140 01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:50,080 Even Göring has given it. 1141 01:07:50,120 --> 01:07:52,880 - Resign yourself. - Resign? 1142 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,760 Yourself to how it's going to be done. 1143 01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:59,600 - A soldier cannot decide... - Yeah, spare me. 1144 01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,520 A Communist, by definition, has a defect of reason. 1145 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,440 The Russian is not a Communist, my friend. 1146 01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:07,360 The Russian does not give a damn who runs things. 1147 01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:09,240 I have lived amongst them. 1148 01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:12,160 The Russian only cares he has a bottle of vodka to suck... 1149 01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:14,040 ...and some form of domestic animal life to fuck. 1150 01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,880 Then he will happily sit in shit his whole life. That is his politics. 1151 01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:21,760 I know those people. 1152 01:08:21,800 --> 01:08:24,160 That is the distinction. 1153 01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,520 I absolve the Jews of that. 1154 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,440 - What did Kritzinger say? - Told me a story. 1155 01:08:28,480 --> 01:08:31,360 - Which was? - Later. He made his point, he feels better. 1156 01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:34,200 - Nothing to eat? - Lf there's time later. 1157 01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,120 We should've had music. There must be a piano here. 1158 01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:40,000 - A string trio would add to the experience. - Yes, I should have. I'm sorry. 1159 01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:43,840 Food, wine, brandy, no music? A little lovely, late Beethoven? 1160 01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:45,760 - I'm sorry. - It would not have been practical. 1161 01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:49,560 - Yes. - I'm teasing. 1162 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:52,960 I take it that you do not get good food up in Cracow. 1163 01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:56,280 If all Berlin eats like you, no wonder we have shortages. 1164 01:08:56,320 --> 01:09:00,160 Was it Mussolini who said, "War reveals man's nobler character"? 1165 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:01,080 Are we ready? 1166 01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:03,520 - Feeling better? - Thank you, yes. 1167 01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,920 - Something you ate? - I'm fine. 1168 01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,800 The cigar. 1169 01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:09,760 - The cigar? - Unexpected. 1170 01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:12,600 We will forego cigars. 1171 01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:15,480 That should be no great trial. Where did we stop? 1172 01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:19,360 The last remark was by Gen. Freisler. "The Jews go in red and come out pink. 1173 01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,200 - "That is progress. " - The side-effect of CO gas. 1174 01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:26,040 There's more to say on that. We're studying something faster... 1175 01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,920 ...other faster and cheaper gases that could be used. Cyanide is being tested... 1176 01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:31,880 ...various forms. - Electrocution, too? 1177 01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:33,720 There is research being done to see... 1178 01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,600 ...whether electrocution can even more effectively... 1179 01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:41,920 ...quietly put an end, a period to the end of the sentence. 1180 01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:45,240 Say one truckload an hour, including putting the contents in... 1181 01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:49,120 ...running the engines, removing the contents, cleaning the inevitable soiling... 1182 01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:53,960 ...on a 24-hour schedule, 1,440 a day times 20 trucks. 1183 01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,800 That's 28,800 a day... 1184 01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:01,600 ...10,512,000 in one year. 1185 01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:04,520 But I cannot imagine you could operate consistently at that rate. 1186 01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,400 Not to mention disposal. 1187 01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:08,320 Gas vans are a short-term field solution. 1188 01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:12,200 We have three camps where permanent gas chambers will be operational. 1189 01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:13,120 I'm sorry? 1190 01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:16,520 Yes, I was about to mention Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka... 1191 01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,880 ...before Gen. Hofmann was taken ill. - It was a fine cigar. 1192 01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,760 Ultimately, the camps will be the primary locations. 1193 01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:25,640 Last summer, Reichsführer Himmler asked me to visit a camp... 1194 01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:28,480 ...up in Upper Silesia called Auschwitz... 1195 01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,400 ...which is very well isolated and close to significant rail access. 1196 01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:34,280 We are turning that camp into a major center, solid structures. 1197 01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,680 Here's where your Jewish labor comes into play, Herr Neumann. 1198 01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,960 The Jews hold the bricks, and build the buildings themselves. 1199 01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:44,840 When the structures are complete, we expect to be able to process 2,500... 1200 01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,720 ...an hour, not a day. 1201 01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:51,560 An hour. 1202 01:10:54,440 --> 01:10:57,320 And those numbers look a lot better. 1203 01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,240 2,500 an hour? 1204 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:00,160 2,500? 1205 01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,040 At 24 hours a day, that is 60,000. 1206 01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:08,800 60,000 each day. 1207 01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:11,720 That's 21.9 million Jews a year... 1208 01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,560 ...if ever there were that many. 1209 01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:17,440 We are also constructing the means of disposal... 1210 01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:20,360 ...which will obviously depend upon the process of combustion. 1211 01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,280 Yes, industrial in nature, large, commercial gas-fed ovens... 1212 01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:27,080 ...no residue to speak of. 1213 01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:34,800 60,000 Jews every day... 1214 01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,200 ...go up in smoke. 1215 01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,600 We can achieve that. 1216 01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:43,400 Imagine. 1217 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,880 Assembly line! 1218 01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:57,800 Yes, the clever Americans have shown us that... 1219 01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,720 ...but we put it to the purpose of a triumphant German vision. 1220 01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,560 Triumphant German vision. 1221 01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,480 So this is my command to you here. 1222 01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,360 Link arms, your units, your ministries... 1223 01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:11,280 ...apply your intelligence, apply your energies. 1224 01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:14,120 The machinery is waiting, feed it. 1225 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,960 Get them on the trains. Keep the trains rolling. 1226 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,880 And history will honor us for having the will and the vision to advance... 1227 01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:24,720 ...the human race to greater purity in a space of time so short... 1228 01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:27,120 ...Charles Darwin would be astonished. 1229 01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,480 I want to bring this meeting to a close. 1230 01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,880 One matter we postponed is the point at which mixed becomes... 1231 01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:36,200 ...wholly German or wholly Jew. That line will be drawn quickly. 1232 01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:40,080 I am not trying to rewrite your law, but I am invoking Führer's princip. 1233 01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:43,880 His word is above all written law. 1234 01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:45,800 Do we have any disputes left to face here... 1235 01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:49,680 ...either with my authority or with what we have agreed? 1236 01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:52,520 General? 1237 01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,440 Let us astonish Charles Darwin. 1238 01:12:54,480 --> 01:12:57,360 I second the motion. It is our most important war. 1239 01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,200 Sir? 1240 01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,160 We are discussing the inevitable and bringing it about... 1241 01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:05,040 ...in the most practical way under one command. 1242 01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:08,880 I have no dispute with that. I understand the realities... 1243 01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:13,720 - With the understanding that... - And indeed... 1244 01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:16,560 ...count on my support. 1245 01:13:16,600 --> 01:13:20,400 With the understanding that consideration will be given to my proposal, yes, proceed. 1246 01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,200 I defer to the SS. 1247 01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:27,120 If you are to do it, then force feed it. Speed it along. 1248 01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:31,000 Our situation, such as in Warsaw, is difficult, edging towards disastrous. 1249 01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:33,840 Thank you. 1250 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:37,720 Yes, what can I say? My enthusiasm is boundless. 1251 01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:40,560 - Obviously. - Sorry? 1252 01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,480 I trust my enthusiasm is clear, is apparent. Yes! 1253 01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:44,400 Neumann? 1254 01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,160 I'd like to know that adequate labor 1255 01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:48,280 will still be available, especially skilled... 1256 01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,120 - On a case-by-case basis. Maj. Lange? - Yes. 1257 01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,960 I urge that speed that Dr. Meyer asked of you. 1258 01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,880 The Poles are not as disciplined a population as we Germans. 1259 01:13:57,920 --> 01:13:59,760 I will report our will to the Governor-General. 1260 01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,680 He'll understand I'm relieving him of a burden. Colonel? 1261 01:14:02,720 --> 01:14:04,560 I thoroughly approve and am anxious to start. 1262 01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:08,440 I look forward to working with your office, and yours, Colonel. 1263 01:14:08,480 --> 01:14:12,280 The sooner, the better. 1264 01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:19,000 - The note-taking, General? - I think we can now dispense with him. 1265 01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:22,840 Many of you took notes, I'll give you the day to memorize them. 1266 01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:23,760 They are to be burned. 1267 01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:27,640 Col. Eichmann will prepare a discrete transcript of this meeting. 1268 01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:28,560 You will each receive a copy. 1269 01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,480 It may be shown to superiors, but to no one at a lower level. 1270 01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,360 All comments are to be sent, in the most privileged way, to me... 1271 01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,200 ...through Col. Eichmann. 1272 01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:43,000 Good. 1273 01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,440 We have accomplished something. 1274 01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:47,840 I thank all of you gentlemen. 1275 01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:49,720 Heil Hitler! 1276 01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:53,560 There is plenty of food left for those of you, and please... 1277 01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:58,360 - Are you off, General? - I have a few minutes. Come. 1278 01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,760 Leave him. His Führer lied to him. I think he got the message. 1279 01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:17,600 General, just a word. 1280 01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:22,400 In here. 1281 01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,960 Stop it! 1282 01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:34,880 You. What are you doing? You're in uniform. 1283 01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:37,760 I'm sorry, sir, it just seemed to happen. 1284 01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:38,680 Not in uniform. 1285 01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,560 Nothing ever just happens. 1286 01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:44,480 If you prefer, we can send you to the Russian front. 1287 01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:48,320 Clean off these cars! 1288 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,000 - Are you leaving tonight? - Yes. 1289 01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:57,880 Not another night in Berlin? 1290 01:15:57,920 --> 01:15:59,800 You have nothing to do, sir. I have. 1291 01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:03,680 - You surprised me at the end, Dr. Stuckart. - Not my intention. 1292 01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,440 Leave the paper tapes with me. 1293 01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:11,360 We'll begin transcribing tomorrow, but leave the tapes with me now. 1294 01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:15,200 - You want all the tapes, sir? - Yes, all of them. 1295 01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:19,520 Dr. Stuckart's car! 1296 01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:22,840 Are you unwell? 1297 01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:26,720 Good night, Dr. Stuckart. 1298 01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:31,520 My car. 1299 01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:37,280 Gen. Hofmann's car! 1300 01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:45,960 It is night in Moscow already. 1301 01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:49,760 Soon, it will be dark here. 1302 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:53,640 Do you think we'll ever see the dawn in our lifetime? 1303 01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:58,440 Come spring, we'll be on the move again. Keep you spirits up, Doctor. 1304 01:16:58,480 --> 01:16:59,360 The Governor-General has... 1305 01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:03,200 ...specifically been told that we would be the first area... 1306 01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:06,120 ...to have our ghettos emptied, the Jews evacuated. The possible... 1307 01:17:06,160 --> 01:17:08,040 I know the conditions, but you are wrong. 1308 01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:10,920 The first to be cleansed is Germany. 1309 01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:12,800 Then you. Germany first. 1310 01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:16,640 - The bureaucratic... - This is my operation, no bureaucrat... 1311 01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:19,560 ...with his nose in the rule book and hand on his cock will slow it down. 1312 01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:22,400 We'll be moving Jews in days, not weeks. 1313 01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:26,280 You can start writing up your train schedules. 1314 01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:31,080 Schubert Quintet in C Major. 1315 01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:35,880 The adagio will tear your heart out. 1316 01:17:37,800 --> 01:17:40,200 Tell the Governor-General to expect my call. 1317 01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,600 - Have we helped your problem? - Yes, I hope so. 1318 01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,480 Good. You, sir? 1319 01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,400 - I'm sure trains will be available. - Anything else? 1320 01:17:47,440 --> 01:17:49,280 You have been very patient. 1321 01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:53,160 Don't count on it. Have a good ride to Cracow. 1322 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:55,040 Thank you. 1323 01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:58,920 Well done, Colonel. Fine meeting. 1324 01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:00,840 Thank you. 1325 01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:01,800 Thank you as well. 1326 01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:05,640 I admire your gift for organization. The meeting was very economical. 1327 01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:12,360 Now. 1328 01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:17,160 Do either of you think we would have that final solution? 1329 01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,080 That in a year, there wouldn't be a Jew left on the continent? 1330 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:22,920 That we control? Why not? 1331 01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,840 - You drink, Eichmann? - Yes, sir. 1332 01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:27,760 Were you ever drunk? 1333 01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:29,680 From time to time. 1334 01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:32,520 Well, then... 1335 01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,440 ...take a fucking drink. 1336 01:18:34,480 --> 01:18:38,320 - I am on duty, sir. - Then it's an order. 1337 01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:39,240 Thank you. 1338 01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:43,120 And tell us again about the pink bodies. 1339 01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:46,920 Sir, I'd rather not. 1340 01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:50,800 - The sounds, the screams. - He will faint again. 1341 01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:55,600 I did not faint. 1342 01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:01,320 I had a physical symptom. 1343 01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:03,280 What was the story you were going to tell me? 1344 01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,160 - Story? - Kritzinger. 1345 01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:09,040 Yes, he told me a story about a man he'd known all his life, a boyhood friend. 1346 01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,880 This man hated his father. Loved his mother fiercely. 1347 01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,760 The mother was devoted to him... 1348 01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:17,640 ...but the father beat him, demeaned him, disinherited him. 1349 01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,520 Anyway, this boy grew to manhood and was still in his 30s when the mother died... 1350 01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:25,360 ...this mother who had nurtured and protected him. 1351 01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:27,240 She died. 1352 01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:31,120 The man stood as they lowered her casket and tried to cry... 1353 01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,920 ...but no tears came. 1354 01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,800 The man's father lived to old age, died when the son was in his 50s. 1355 01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,680 At the father's funeral, much to his son's surprise... 1356 01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,480 ...he could not control his tears. 1357 01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:50,320 He was wailing, sobbing. He was apparently inconsolable. 1358 01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,160 Lost, even. 1359 01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:58,000 That was the story Kritzinger told me. 1360 01:19:59,960 --> 01:20:01,880 I don't understand. 1361 01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:03,760 No? 1362 01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:07,640 The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. 1363 01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,560 When the mother died, that was a loss. 1364 01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,440 When the father died... 1365 01:20:11,480 --> 01:20:14,360 ...when the hate had lost its object... 1366 01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,240 ...then the man's life was empty. 1367 01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:21,040 Over. 1368 01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:22,960 Interesting. 1369 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:26,840 That was Kritzinger's warning. 1370 01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,680 What? That we should not hate the Israelites? 1371 01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,520 No, that it should not so fill our lives... 1372 01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:37,400 ...that when they are gone, we have nothing left to live for. 1373 01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:42,200 So says the story. 1374 01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:47,000 I will not miss them. 1375 01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,800 Time. 1376 01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,720 You have to take me up in that plane of yours sometime. 1377 01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,600 Yes, we should do that. Not right after you've eaten. 1378 01:20:56,640 --> 01:21:00,440 - Friday. - Everything will be prepared. 1379 01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:05,720 One working copy, edited by me, for your approval. 1380 01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:09,080 30 copies, numbered. No other records, I guarantee. 1381 01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:22,520 Good. 1382 01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:45,600 - You certainly know how to throw a party. - Thank you. 1383 01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:49,440 Shalom. 1384 01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,920 Does it tear your heart out? 1385 01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:31,680 Beautiful, sir. 1386 01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:37,440 I've never understood the passion for Schubert's sentimental Viennese shit. 1387 01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:43,720 Col. Eichmann carefully edited the stenographic record of the conference. 1388 01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,600 Copies were distributed to the participants to be read... 1389 01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:48,480 ...and then destroyed. 1390 01:23:48,520 --> 01:23:51,880 Gen. Heydrich flew back to his headquarters in Czechoslovakia... 1391 01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:55,240 ...where, in a few terrible weeks, he had earned the nickname: 1392 01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:58,080 The Butcher of Prague. 1393 01:23:58,120 --> 01:24:00,000 In the spring, two Czech patriots... 1394 01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,920 ...trained to assassinate him and dropped from a British bomber... 1395 01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:05,760 ...succeeded in wounding him. 1396 01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:09,600 In reprisal, thousands of Czechs were rounded up and shot. 1397 01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:13,480 Heydrich's wounds grew infected, he fell into a coma and died. 1398 01:24:14,440 --> 01:24:17,280 Eichmann, as Heydrich's deputy for Jewish affairs... 1399 01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:21,160 ...was left to finish what they had begun at Wannsee. 1400 01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:25,000 He considered it a matter of honor.