Conspiracy (2001)

Supurb in every way
The acting, the story, script, setting, everything is terrific. This is a film I'll watch again and again.

Great Movie
Wanted this on Region 2 (Europe), but couldn't get it anywhere, for some reason. Had to buy the region 1 disc and hack my dvd player to play it. Great film that i had not seen for some time. Don't expect an action packed movie full of guns and explosions. It's just a group of guys talking around a table. For those who like well acted and true to life stories, this is a wonderful piece of history. I highly recommend it.

The Secret Conference
This film tells about the secret meeting in Wannsee near Berlin that occurred in 1942. It is based on a surviving record. The beginning shows the rituals that preceded this meeting. The minutes of this meeting are to be kept secret. The problem is how to eliminate the Jews from Germany. They can't be exported to other countries. There must be a solution to this storage problem. The first step is to evacuate the Jews from Germany controlled Europe to ghettoes in the East. They will work, many will expire of "natural causes". Heydrich runs the meetings to finish on schedule, he rolls over any questions. By deferring them until later. They will operate strictly according to their Nuremberg laws. The SS will determine the treatment for those of mixed blood. A lawyer objects to the proposals as they violate the laws.

One proposal is to sterilize all the Jews. One person asks about the need for workers. Heydrich says death is the sure method of sterilization. The lawyer points out the legal problem of inheritance. Sterilization is justified as "racial hygiene"! Heydrich makes veiled threats to any objector. Some worry about the loss of labor in industry. They plan a new law to automatically divorce marriages. This may cause dissension at home. Shooting many people causes morale problems for soldiers. Their solution is use a poison gas for mass slaughter; its cost-efficient and hidden from the public. They discuss mass murder as if talking about vacation schedules. They pick Auschwitz because it is isolated. Deaths are plotted like some production schedule on an assembly line.

And so the top-level decision is given to the attendees, they all agree to obey. The trains will start rolling with people to the evacuation centers. Few records will be kept of this meeting for total secrecy. [What were they afraid of?] The ending of this film says many of the attendees were "released for lack of evidence". Only one copy of the minutes was ever found. If there was no written documents the secret would be concealed. [But the plot could be inferred by a deduction of the activities that followed this meeting.]

Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" has an Appendix on the dangers of pseudo science like "eugenics". This philosophy was derived from the ideas of Darwin, who was never a scientist in a laboratory like Pasteur or Koch. It was just a form of politics that sought to oppress certain kinds of people. Corporations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation backed sterilization as part of their attack on ordinary people. This same philosophy was used by the Nazi party. Crichton doesn't tell how these ideas came from Darwinists. Darwin and Lysenko both depended on the ideas of Lamarck where "acquired characteristics" are passed on to descendants. Darwin is infamous for ideas on "evolution" that can't be duplicated in a laboratory or observed by a scientist. The corporations that control the universities demand belief in "Darwinism" as a political test of its employees.