On the 20th January 1942 fifteen men met at the Wannsee Villa to discuss what they described as the final solution to the Jewish question. The Holocaust had been underway for many months but what those delegates agreed put in motion the industrial nature of the killings.

Roger Moorhouse, historian of Nazi Germany, joins Ollie to discuss the film Conspiracy which starts Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth. How accurate is it historically? What's the background to the bureaucrats and SS men attending, and what about Wannsee itself?

Conspiracy Links

Conspiracy (2001)

Berlin at War, by Roger Moorhouse

The Forgers, by Roger Moorhouse

First to Fight, by Roger Moorhouse

The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, by Mark Roseman

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, by Christopher Browning

The Conference (2022)

The Wannsee Conference (1984)

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