The House of the Wannsee Conference
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution." Reinhard Heydrich, SS chief Heinrich Himmler's head deputy and head of the Reich Main Security Office, held the meeting in order to involve key members of the German ministerial bureaucracy, including the Foreign and Justice Ministries, whose cooperation was needed to implement the killing measures.
In this film by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dr. Norbert Kampe, Memorial and Educational Site Director of the Villa at Wannsee, takes viewers on a tour of the tortuous history of the house where the "Final Solution" was coordinated. See the house for yourself, and listen as decades of history--before during and after the war---unfold.
To learn more about the Wannsee Villa or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visit www.ushmm.org/w....
The HBO film "Conspiracy" (2001) is the most outstanding movie I've ever seen about the Wannsee conference.
I agree
@@jamesbelmont3603 the first one from 1985 is better, I think, also can be seen here with english subtitles.
Kenneth Branagh was ace in that movie.
He makes a good bad guy.
@@benben5847 The whole cast was ace, from Stanley Tucci who played the meticulous, monstrously efficient Eichmann to all the other actors who played what was essentially middle management at the conference which implemented the fate of the Jews in Europe.
I was a US Army soldier in West Berlin, 1974 to 1976. The Army held race relations seminars for soldiers at the Wansee Villa, which I attended. It was an appropriate site for these classes.
Oh, my goodness….I heard the Schubert trio and I thought, perfect to set the mood for this! It’s so stunningly beautiful, but there’s such a sense of sadness and foreboding, appropriate for the Wannsee Conference results, but also because Schubert wrote it very soon before his death. And he knew death was near. Excellent overview of the history of the house and the conference!
We haven't got the right to forget, this video is dedicated to those who "were different"
o who gave their lifes . Never let it happen again.Thank you again for this short film.
It is the Second Movement of the Piano Trio in E-Flat, Op.100 by Franz Schubert.
I visited Wansee when I went to Berlin in May this year. It's situated in lovely surroundings, considering the nature of the conference.
Great video and very informative on the history of the villa itself. I have watched the 1984 German movie on the wansee conference with English subtitles. It's such a good film!
This is definitely a must vist on my next trip to Berlin.
@TristanSD The music in this video is Schuberts Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, D. 929 (Op. 100), 2nd Movement.
I warmly recommend the exhibition at the Wannsee villa. It is -in my opinion- among the better museums dealing with the holocaust and European antisemitism in general. The contrast between the splendid environment and the subject itself is striking.
Eichman arranged the Wannsee Conference on a directive from Heydrich. The meetings minutes were recorded by a secretary and later printed out for each official who had attended.
Those copies were to have been burned by those receiveing them, and this order was carried out. Except for one copy, which survived the war. That copy belonged to Martin Luther, who had been imprisioned in Sachsenhausen camp for conspiring against his boss, Von Ribbentrop. Luther died in Sachsenhausen in 1945.
Super interesting. He got everything he deserved.
Gave me chills to walk into meeting room
Is the dining room they met in, maintained as a dining room? I would think that would really help bring the history of this chillingly nonchalant "meeting" to life.
No because the furniture was all disappeared, stolen, and not replaced. When I was last there there were tall poster boards, very matter of factly, presenting what happened and how. It was very sparse but elegantly---and sensitively---communicated. Each time I've been there, I leave emotionally drained from the ghostly voices which emanate to me from that accountant's page, listing the numbers of Jews in Europe left to kill. It is a real butcher's bill, that page.
Antisemitism didn't start with Hitler and the Nazis. It had strong roots in Germany going all the way back to Martin Luther (some of his anti-Jewish diatribes make even the strongest Nazi stuff look tame). So the Nazis didn't create this, they simply took what was already there and used it.)
very true. In fact anti semitism was to be found throughout Europe and the US before the nazis ever arrived.
That is true. In fact, anti-Semitism has been around long before Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party ever appeared on the scene
Half correct ,historian claim russia white emigres play vital role energizing the anti semitism movement not just in germany but all over the world.
1 of 3 parts
Dr. Josef Bühler
State Secretary (Staatssekretär)
Government of the Governor General in Cracow
Adolf Eichmann
Reich Security Main Office
Director of Section IV B 4
Dr. Roland Freisler
State Secretary
Reich Ministry of Justice
Part 3
Dr. Rudolf Lange
Commander of the Security Police and
Security Service
Dr. Georg Leibbrandt
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Permanent Secretary
Martin Luther
Undersecretary of State
German Foreign Office
The original german movie is really closer to arepresentation of what has realy happened there. The language , the conversation and the hierarchy relation among participants. The 2001 movie give us a beautifull view of the place and yhe people working in the underground probably is, but there is clearly any american way of telling history. My concern is that in both movies some of the characters have not been physcally protrayed as the real person they represented. Hope the 2022 movie becomes closer to the facts. |Congratulation for this video. Very informative.
What the Wannsee conference 2022 movie called?
It took 50 years to finally make this place a memorial?....I am stunned!
There was a fear that preserving pleasant or grand-looking Nazi sites would fuel neo-Nazism and no desire to spend money needed to rebuild residences, offices, schools, hospitals, and factories that way.
Berlin should have been a very beautiful city. Very beautiful.
Jew were expelled from England in 1290, Shakespeare lived 1564 to 1616. The chance of being "Jew-wise" was remote. Also, whether Raul Hilberg visited a Nazi camp is immaterial: lots of other people saw the camps (survivors, liberating Allied soldiers, Nazi officials who openly testified to what they did.
Part 2
Reinhard Heydrich
Head of the Security Police and Security Service (SD)
Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Otto Hofmann
Head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office
Dr. Gerhard Klopfer
Nazi Party Chancellery
Permanent Secretary
Wilhelm Kritzinger
Reich Chancellery
Permanent Secretary
Looks like it took 5 parts (not 3)
Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth
Commander in Chief of Security Police and
Security Service
Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart
State Secretary
Reich Ministry of the Interior
Very interesting to hear about Eichmann's comments on the conference.
My God, I bet he can still see that scene in his mind as if it was yesterday! How awful.
Ive been here like im sure a good few of you would have too.... its so luxurious, you just can't imagine the events that took place there would happen in a place like that - its far from hell.. although I did feel a eary sort of feeling there... just seemed very quiet and secretive, which in itself was a bit scary/strange..
Place left me spooked for me days
@ushmm Incidentally it was used on the soundtrack of the beautiful movie, "Barry Lyndon".
Toller Beitrag, danke.
absolutely right !!
Very interesting,thanks
Thank you
what's the song?
Dr. Alfred Meyer
State Secretary
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
Heinrich Müller
Reich Security Main Office
Head of Department (Amt) IV
Erich Neumann
State Secretary
Office of the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan
The same question bothered me. After some research:
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio No.2 in E flat, Op. 100, D. 929, 2: Andante con moto
I first thought it was Jewish music from how it changes between moll and dur + the violin. Jewish music? Silly, silly predjudiced me... What do I know
Well done!
Yes, I'm aware of the attempt on Konrad Adenauer's life that you mention.
Everything I've stated is true, and I'm a proud American patriot. Danke :=)
Remarkable that it wasn't destroyed during the war..
Why remarkable?? It is 30 minutes outside of Berlin, and at the point in the war that the Allies bombed Berlin (for obvious reasons), the significance of this house wasn’t known. The Goebbel’s lake/country home wasn’t destroyed either, and is still standing today. On the other hand, the places associated with Hitler _were_ well known, again for obvious reasons, and they _were_ bombed.
Information filled with interesting aspects displayed in elegant succession. Much obliged, Dr. Norbert Kampe. Thank you so much, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I say that on behalf of my good friends Noemi and Jehuda Bornstein, murdered siblings of Ernst Israel Bornstein (author of the book 'The Long Night'). Best wishes!
There is no adequate justice that could ever be served on these fiends, but at least in Heydrich’s case it came closer than most, as it took him several days to die after being shot by his Czech assassins. On the other hand he was unfortunately spared a lengthy judicial process with the inevitability of either a suicide pill or a rope at the end of it. Despite being born to a Protestant father and Catholic mother, he is said to have wanted to eliminate Christianity following victory for the Nazis; and yet his final words to Himmler before slipping into a coma (a quotation from one of his father’s operas) seem to acknowledge the existence of God. Maybe his final days gave him pause to reflect, and hopefully the prospect of his own final judgement provided an additional note of anguish for him to end on.
Himmler supposedly did not call a doctor right away. Heydrich was killed as a result of good British intelligence work.
Die wannsee villa war auch schulland heim ich und meine klasse 6 hatten dort 7tage gewohnt am vor mittag hatten wir schul unter richt und nach mittags hatten wir wanderung zur pfauen insel und hatten unterricht im wald mein schul lehrer hies herr henning greetings from Australia
If ever a human looked like he was descended from rats, Heydrich was it.
Thanks for not showing the inside
It's odd, I suppose that the only images of Eichmann which I've viewed are either of him wearing his SS regalia or as an old man during his trial in Israel.
The photos of the other participants, including Heydrich, are all men without hats, in natural poses.
Someone knows the name of the backround music-titel ?
Franz Schubert, Piano Trio in E-flat major (piano, violin and violoncello), second movement. Certainly, something of astonishing melancholic beauty.
@joeymos13
No- they should preserve it. Even the Russians didn't burn it.
Actually, all the things you mentioned have been subject to historical reviews of all shapes and sizes, from all angles, far from being forgotten.
The monk's sage advice is still apt. A suggestion: drink less Kool-Aid :=)
When I read about this, I am ashamed to be a member of the human race. It seems that throughout time, there have always been selfish self centered militaristic people that have no compassion...and it still is happenning today. Throughout time, there have always been those that would never think or do such as these people did. For them, I am thankful. I'm hoping when I die, I come back as a higher species, like perhaps a butterfly.
Have you ended it yet? 😫🔪💀
Did any participants survive the war? How many were hanged?
Most interesting - I wonder when the next conference of this nature will occur again in history?
Unfortunately I got involved in a pathetic argument on this page. Due to the seriousness of the topic, the Wannsee conference, that argument was totally inappropriate so I have removed my comments.
You would think that when an account like "LifeRings" is closed that the RUclips powers that be would be kind enough to say it here not atop the profile.
the music of Wagner is not suitable. the Schubert works perfectly.
BTW Calvarienberg, my family in Vienna remembers the rise of Nazi Germany all too well, and they aren't all that impressed! I had an uncle who fought in WW1 and he wasn't exactly thrilled about the Nazi movement/Hitler either. I have reread what I wrote a month ago and I agree I was out of order saying "Germans" instead of Nazi's for that I'm sorry. But then again neighbours who denounced neighbours? with friends like those ya don't need enemies!
Peace to you & your family!
see what I mean folks?
NO MORE need be said!
@imberch Your account is closed. Too much to hope that this applies to your life as well.
I find this truly astonishing.....Charles Darwin would be astonished!
@yankeegurl62 All true (though maybe not the part about the numbers), but the Wannsee conference, the subject of this film, was specifically concerned with how to solve the so-called 'jewish question'.
ich war im Jahr 1988 Klassenfahrt in dieser Jugendherberge !!!
Viele grüsse noch an die die sich an mich erinnern Erdal mit Frau Krause !!!
In klassischer Weise ging die Abitursfahrt unseres Gymnasiums immer nach Griechenland,aber nach dem Mauerbau für uns 1963 nach West-Berlin,wo auch wir in diesem Haus untergebracht waren,ohne allerdings von seiner grauenhaften Vergangenheit zu wissen! Wir wurden von Erich Mende begrüßt,dem damaligen Minister für innerdeutsche Fragen.
@imberch Hmmm... dignify that with a response? No, I don't think so. Kindly keep your ramblings out of my inbox though, thanks.
yeah everybody has an obligation of remembrance towards this horror !!!
the most horrendous crimes ever. How can anyone rationalize children and babies being placed in these hell holes. (My 1st comment was to a person who is forever saying that Adi Eichmann died in 1987 which is a load of crap, we all know died in Ramla Prison.)
If you wish to learn more about the ways Governments worldwide cynicaly "relocated" "dangerous" populations please search on youtube for this movie Title: "Japanese Relocation - U.S. Gov't Explanation 1942 (Japanese Internment Camps)"
Wow... so this is where the turning point of mass murder became systemic genocide. Very importatn historical memorial site.
Not quite
my insistance
"What a tragedy, that educated, cultured Germany could embark on such murder, at a scale never before undertaken." Your point was addressed by the great American Orthodox Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, who pointed out that Germans at the time confused civilization with civility, and knowledge with morality.
Large number of german philosphers from mid 19th century to mid 20th century were very intolerance,illiberal , atheist ,anti capitalism and anti semitism.
It was the high point of his career
I've been here before
whoo attended the wansee meeting :/
I wonder what that villa will look like in 50 years. That's 122 years after the conference. Surely it won't be used as a museum forever. In 50 years, virtually no-one will know anything about the Conference, so there will be no visitors left.
I'm not being cynical or denying anything. I just wonder what the future of that house will be like.
TheYizuman
You are soo wrong. But look at how little museums and general knowledge is left about WW1. People know nothing about it any more, and they don't care. Same could happen with WW2. I think that in 2050, there will be so little visitors, that the government funding they receive now will be withdrawn. Then the museum will end. Maybe the funding and support will continue, but there will barely be any visitors. A museum without visitors has lost its function. To educate, in this case.
+Jonathan Cosmopolitan Roughly as you wrote this, the history channel was showing a multi part new documentary dramatization on WWI. It received a large audience and they repeated it. For anyone with an IQ over 110 who looks at a map of Europe, WWI is important and significant as the reason entire countries exist and don't, as the reason WWII was instigated, etc. The mass deaths of WWI are why so many otherwise brave and good people held back on entering WWII or even taking a stand against the racist and then genocidal policies, ambitions and actions of Germany. WWI enabled isolationists to manipulate foreign policy for far too long.
How do you know this ?
der akzent ist grauenvoll ^^
of these people are not psychotic in origin, but due to intense paranoia and hostility over lengthy periods of time, usually from childhood. Sometimes they publish their hate-filled rantings, and wind up in jail [Ernst Zundel]; often they lose jobs due to attempting to influence others, usually inappropriately [Jim Keegstra]. Due to a marked lack of conscience, many of these people are also considered psychopaths, but without the usual veneer of affability most psychopaths manifest.
Just so that people who may read this comment know, “psychotic” and “psychopath” are not interchangeable terms, as is clearly implied in this comment of 12 years ago. Many people with mood disorders (depression, postpartum depression, bipolar disorder as examples) as well as certain kinds of personality disorders, such as schizophrenia, may experience psychotic episodes, which are characterized by a break with reality, highly disorganized and disordered thinking, and uncharacteristically strange or bizarre behavior. Psychopaths (now called antisocial personality disorder) demonstrate a wide variety of difficulties with empathic and sensitive interactions with others which can begin in childhood, and it is highly complex….children who are bullies are budding psychopaths, for example, and if they participate in social skills training to help them adjust, they use the skills learned to be better bullies. All dictators are psychopaths, PERIOD!! And that’s all I’ll say about it.
who attented? only good guys....
Really ??
they dont exist.
Really ??
@@chandruu1995 Yes, I’m afraid, really. The subject of the Holocaust causes severely psychologically disordered people out of the woodwork, everywhere on the internet. They’re either not intelligent, uneducated, and easily led, or they’re sociopaths and psychopaths, or both.
Wether Yagoda was a Jew is quite irrelevant: there were Jewish Soviet communists, but there were Jewish victims of USSR, as well. The statistic of political comissars you quote is not sustained by historical evidence.
Churchill was not anti-Semitic, either. Hitler's killing of Jews was not justified. Anti-Semitism is truly "the socialism of fools," like the early nineteenth century Germans used to say.
whats the song's name?