Saturday, January 20, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee conference at a nice house (a large villa at Nos. 56/57) westsouthwest of Berlin, with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats, to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) of the Jewish Question, in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons. They got over half. They also took notes at the conference. One copy survived.
HBO made an understated but excellent movie on the subject, Conspiracy which I urge those interested in history and culture to see. Chris Eccleston would have made a better Heydrich than Kenneth Branagh (just from resemblance alone) but Tucci was in fact an excellent Eichmann. The banality of evil indeed.
HBO made an understated but excellent movie on the subject, Conspiracy which I urge those interested in history and culture to see. Chris Eccleston would have made a better Heydrich than Kenneth Branagh (just from resemblance alone) but Tucci was in fact an excellent Eichmann. The banality of evil indeed.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:26 AM 
