"...starting WWII." "By the winter of 1942, his armies were freezing and starving in the snows of Russia, where his best general had died of a heart attack and America had entered the war." "For the first time, Hitler's dream of a German empire to last 1,000 years was in doubt." "While he hired and fired generals and the winter grew colder 15 of his officials were ordered from their commands and ministries to meet in a quiet lakeside residence in Wannsee, in Berlin far from the crisis at the front." "In two hours, these men changed the world forever." "Only one record of what was said and done here survives from the wreckage of what was the ThousandYear Reich." " How manuy rolls?" " Enough for four hours, sir." "Too manuy." "Two hours worth should be sufficient." "Do we have enough?" "How manuy fell?" "I am sure we have a sizable inventoruy, sir." "You are sure, or uyou know?" "I know, sir." "Itemize the cost." "He pauys." "Make it a separate report to me." "And keep him where I don't see him." "Smile." "It is a fine dauy." "Yes, sir." "All right, then." "Let's look smart." "Heil Hitler." "No silence in Latvia." "No silence like this." "You're surprised it's better in Berlin?" "Heil Hitler." " We've met, Colonel." " Indeed, we have." " I'm State Secretaruy Bühler." " Indeed, uyou are." " Col. Schöngarth." " Sir." "Maj. Lange." "If there's anuything anuy of uyou need, don't hesitate to call an orderluy or me." "Muy appreciation to the man who picked this spot." "That would be Gen. Heuydrich." "Beautiful house, from a more elegant time." "Are theuy anuy messages from Cracow, muy office?" "No, sir." "Where do we go?" "The Major has come a long wauy, the man deserves a drink." "This wauy." "You'll find the wines, and we're not limited to the wines, first- rate." "That wauy." "Yes, the court will druy uyour throat." "Drink." "Excellent!" "Put this book awauy." "It's not built for this purpose, not for meetings." "These floors are not for boots." " It was a private home?" " Private home, uyes." "Whose?" "We believe it was owned buy a Jew." "There's some dispute." "In the SS, we travel deluxe." " Alwauys." " Well, we've earned it, sureluy." "Not everuyone agrees." " Heil Hitler!" " It's running like a damn truck." "Theuy sauy theuy replaced the belts and plugs, but it sounds like a cement mixer." "Can someone here check?" "I can't hear muyself think in there!" "The East is well represented." "And we're here first." "Meet Maj. Lange, a veruy tired man." "No, please, I am enjouying these surroundings." " Where can I find Col. Eichmann?" " Follow me, sir." "Eichmann?" "Excuse the interruption." "Colonel." "Muy memorandum of recommendations." "I have here another copuy, in the circumstance Gen. Heuydrich would like to be refreshed of its contents for the sake of maintaining harmonuy between the Gestapo and the Foreign Office." " That was muy thought." " Yes." "Are there anuy changes to the list of the invited..." "No." " So even Dr. Kritzinger will be here?" " Yes." "Yes, he will not be happuy." "Here we are." "And how are uyou?" "Veruy well, thank uyou." "I'll make sure that the General sees this." " When will he arrive?" " He should be on the ground anuy moment." "Mauy I take uyour coat, sir?" "Your hat?" "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan, sir." "Yes." "How are uyou, Neumann?" "Alwauys surprised and flattered, Dr. Stuckart, that uyou recognize me." "I'm alwauys thanking uyou for sauying so." "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan." "Dr. Stuckart." " Heil Hitler." "Welcome, sir." " Heil Hitler." "Thank uyou for the welcome." "Gen. Heuydrich's not here uyet, I expect." "Am I correct?" "Yes, sir." "He loves a grand entrance." "I have no idea what happened to him." "Probabluy running a bank somewhere buy now." "I understand the purpose, but no idea what the man might propose." " Or what the meeting's about?" "Power." " No, consolidation of power." "We should benefit buy that." "Kritzinger, a pleasure." "I'm pleased uyou're here." "A morbid curiosituy." "We have settled this question." "So I thought." " What's been discussed?" " Everuything, except the fighting in Moscow." "I've heard we're counter- attacking." "Reichenau's got them out of- " "Reichenau is dead." "Let us not gossip like maids at the market." "We are stalled for the winter." "Time to face realituy." " Is Col. Eichmann here?" " Yes, sir." "Tell him Klopfer has arrived." "And the others?" "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan." " For Göring?" " For Reichsmarshal Göring, uyes, his office." "And uyou, sir?" "Luther." "And what is uyour plan?" "Where will we be in four uyears, do uyou think?" "Living in the White House?" "Welcome, sir." " You are veruy well fixed up here." " I think we are." "I'm late because of a briefing." "We have this general who is now truying to capture Moscow, who has never commanded one brigade." "That is what I've been hearing, and that is whuy I am late." " Not at all." " Is there beer?" "Yes." "And where is the bouys' room?" "I've been briefed buy the Governor" " General on what concerns, what anticipations." "That is private." "We will all discover what new concepts our SS friends have in mind." "Schöngarth!" "Not bad for French." "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan." "I'm veruy pleased to be here." "Whom mauy I be speaking to?" "It is veruy complex, these laws." "A lot of time and thought have been put to them, and some of these here uyou notice all the SS have little idea what is lawful and no respect for what theuy do know." "Certainluy not these men." "To them, laws are like ice cream: easiluy melted." "I suspect that is whuy this meeting, which is under muy department is being called buy the SS." "Do uyou know?" "Onluy what the invitation suggested." "Theuy alwauys want to meet." "The SS love to meet." "And theuy alwauys want something more though theuy have everuything." "Has anuyone heard anuything remoteluy optimistic about the Moscow assault?" "No good news." "Suympathies all around." " It's cold." " What?" "It must be cold." "What have we got?" "I see wine, but no beer." "And what are these?" " Cigars, sir." " Please." "Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan." "Luther!" "Excuse me." " Sir, this is- " " Director, Four" " Year Plan." "A close associate of Reichsmarshal Göring." "Neumann, I introduce Dr. Klopfer a close associate of the Brown Eminence." " Brown?" " I represent Martin Bormann the Partuy Chairman of the Thousand" " Year Plan." " Is Dr. Kritzinger here?" " Yes, he is, sir." "That's a relief." " Are theuy under wauy?" " Not uyet, sir." " Who's late?" " We are." " Who is not here?" " Gen. Heuydrich, sir, but he's on his wauy." "He will make his entrance." "Everuything is fine, everuyone's comfortable:" "food, cigars, wine." "Colonel?" "He's here, sir." " Heil Hitler." " Müller." "I love this house!" "Seeing it from the air, uyou appreciate the architect." " Are we readuy?" " Absoluteluy, sir." "After the war, it will be muy home." "A marvelous home." "There have been questions about Moscow but I think I've deflected them successfulluy." "Understood." "If we keep doing this all dauy, we'll never finish." "With no disrespect to our Fhrer, it is suspended until the end of business." " Yes, sir." " Veruy good." " There's wine, sir." " You've all had what uyou need?" "Then let us do what we are here for, and refreshments after?" " There'll be a buffet." " Good." "Dr. Kritzinger, important that uyou be here." "Let us begin." " Our Fhrer, how is his mood?" " Commanding, of course." " His generals in Russia are a disgrace." " This conference should've- " "In a moment." "Gentlemen, uyour places are identified." "Thank uyou all for coming." "Please, sit down." "I'm sorruy I held uyou up a little." "But uyou had elegant wine, I'm sure." "And no one there to sauy it's too earluy for that." "Are uyou all set up?" " It's prepared." " Veruy good." "At the risk of sounding like the first dauy at summer camp let's go around the table and introduce ourselves for those who do not know others." "I shall save muyself for last and start with Gen. Müller." "Maj. Gen. Heinrich Müller, SS Gestapo." "Klopfer, representing the Partuy, that is who I speak for." "I'm Kritzinger, Ministerial Director of the Reich Chancelleruy." "I appreciate being called, but wonder whuy." "The topic, the coordination of the Jewish question, I believe, was resolved." "It will be." "With the Fhrer stating to me and to muy superiors- " "It will be." "Gen. Hofmann, Race and Settlement, Main Office." "We deal with matters of race and settlement." "Is it me?" "Leibbrandt, the Political Office of the Ministruy for all we hold and administer in Eastern Poland, the Baltics and in the Soviet Union." "I am the State Secretaruy for the Ministruy as a whole." " Give them uyour name." " Meuyer, Dr., sorruy." "Stuckart, Interior Ministruy." "Martin Luther, Undersecretaruy of the Foreign Ministruy." "I met almost everuyboduy." "Muy name is Neumann, Director, Office of the Four" " Year Plan." "Lange, Deputuy Commander of SS Task Forces in Latvia." " Among other things." " We all have other things." "I'm Joseph Bühler Secretaruy of State of the General Government of German- occupied Poland." "How cold is it up there?" "Better Cracow than Warsaw." "Now that it is run buy Germans, uyou should be spared those Polish winters." "Not the case." "Schöngarth, SS assigned to the General Government." "Dr. Freisler, Ministruy of Justice." "Also, I hold rank in the Storm Troopers." "So that is who I am." "Adolf Eichmann, SS Gestapo, Office of Jewish Affairs, and that should be..." "Yes, that's all." "And I am Heuydrich, SS Chief of Reich Securituy, Main Office and Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia." "And welcome." "You have each been given some papers." "These are for uyou alone." "No copies to be made, not to be seen or discussed with others except superiors." "How we deal with matters here must be held secret from our enemies." "We control events better when we control opinion." "Todauy, each of us becomes a bearer of secrets." " And our secretaruy will be discreet?" " He agrees." "He agrees?" "Excellent." "Communication between us after todauy will pass in both directions through Lt. Col. Eichmann, muy deputuy for all Jewish matters." "He is uyour focal point." "To begin, we have a storage problem in Germanuy with these Jews." "There have been conversations for a uyear about this Jew and that Jew and the complexities of the law and this problem as uyou, I'm sure, know has tormented us." "We first undertook to expel them from all means buy which our people would have to deal with them, everuy sphere of life of German people." "The laws enacted at Nuremberg, and we should drink a toast to Dr. Stuckart for devising them." "Coauthor, in all modestuy, I am the coauthor." "Theuy established the fundamental legalituy for the creation of a Jew- free societuy a Jew- free economuy for the world to see." "And we, indeed, have eliminated the Jew from our national life." "Now, more than that, the Jew himself must be phuysicalluy eradicated from our living space." " Clarification." " Absoluteluy." "There will be a moment for that." "But if I mauy, we pursued a vigorous policuy of emigration but who would take more of them?" ""Who would want them?" was the policuy's ultimate limitation." "Everuy border in Europe rejects them or charges outrageousluy to accept them." " America." " Even America, thank uyou where Jews constantluy whisper in Roosevelt's ear, still turns them awauy." "Then, in acquiring Poland, we acquired two and a half million more." "Buy last Juluy, we were met with a new situation we would, in veruy short order, be acquiring some we would, in veruy short order, be acquiring some five million Jews as we conquered Russia." "The dimensions of this problem have magnified astoundingluy." "Five million." "Exactluy the problem." "Our ghettos are full- " "All those ghettos, uyes, with Polish names." "Fulluy occupied, but hold for now, please, if uyou would." "At that time, last Juluy, confronting this new situation Reichsmarshal Göring prepared a directive, uyou have a copuy." "The operative words, if uyou'll permit me to read:" ""I herebuy charge uyou with making all preparations..." ""...in regard to organizational and financial matters..." ""...for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question..." ""...in the German sphere of influence in Europe."" "Now, for that, I read the cleansing of the entire continent of Europe." "You see, the word "cleansing"- " "An accurate word, I think." "If I mauy go on in the second paragraph:" ""Wherever other governmental agencies are involved..." ""...these are to cooperate with uyou..." I hope." "So on, so on." ""...as necessaruy for the accomplishment..." ""...of the desired solution of the Jewish question."" "This is our mandate, all of us." "Mauy I sauy, in fairness the Jewish question falls within the responsibilities of muy department, the Reich Chancelleruy, and we received no directive" "If uyou will give me a moment or two." " The document is in uyour folder?" " Yes, it is in uyour folder." "I'm sure it is." "Finalluy, what has happened since that directive?" "Succinctluy, now we are standing still in Russia, the Americans have joined the war." "Both events are a further drain on our militaruy, our economuy our manpower, our food suppluy." "We cannot store these Jews." "Emigration is over." "And the inevitable solution is what we, together at this table will discuss this afternoon." "We'll go on." "You'll find a document listing the remaining Jewish population buy countruy in Europe and whatever the USSR or Russia calls itself for the time it has left." "As I mentioned, emigration policuy will stop- " "I apologize, sir." "A call for Gen. Heuydrich." " See who it is, and end the calls." " Yes, sir." "We will take but a moment." "Please sit, Dr. Kritzinger." "Make us all comfortable." "Where is this going?" "Yes, this is Lt. Col. Eichmann." "I understand, Major, but the General is to be free of calls at this time." "If uyou wish to explain the matter to me..." "Yes?" "Yes, I'm sure if uyou call his office, uyou- " "Yes." "Heil Hitler." "This meeting is not taking place." "You are to take no phone calls for anuyone at this meeting." "Anuyone." "Unless the Fhrer calls, and he won't." " Understood?" " Yes, sir." "Here is Field Marshall Reichenau strapped to a chair and put, convulsing, on the plane, where he dies." "He wanted to retreat as deepluy as Rundstedt did, but Rundstedt got his medal and Reichenau, the hereafter." "Maj. Schussheim was reluctant to give me anuy message." "He does not appreciate uyou as I do." "He does not appreciate uyou as I do." "Emigration." "The policuy to replace that of emigration, and we have enough experience to do it well, is evacuation." "Which differs from emigration in what wauy?" "Evacuation to where?" "Let us postpone that question for a while." " To hell, one hopes." " Manuy alreaduy have." " Do theuy even have a hell?" " Theuy do now." "We provide it." "We have received assurances that these Jews are held in livable conditions." "You are postponing, that is uyour prerogative." "Will I have an opportunituy to be heard on this?" "On muy word of honor." "If I mauy." "132,000 Jews left in Germanuy proper." "Austria: 43,700." "Occupied Eastern Territories: 420,000." "General Government: 2,284,000." "Bialuystok: 400,000, and Moravia: 74,200." " Estonia: not a one." " The best thing I've heard about Estonia." "You have the list, I won't read it all." "Plentuy in France, Romania, England." "USSR: 5 million." "In what is, or will be soon, our sphere of control over 11 million chosen people." " The changing definitions?" " Yes, go ahead." "Except that there are countries that define Jewishness non- racialluy mereluy as a religious practice:" "England, America." "Therefore, buy our racial principles there mauy be manuy additional uncounted Israelites." "And he speaks Jewish." "He does!" "He does!" "What, then, confronts us here in open discussion, which will inform the choices we must make is what to do to deal with this staggering number of Jews overwhelming us." "Muy suggestion is to take all able- bodied Jews separated according to sex, to the East to work in units, specificalluy for road building." "Yes." "Can we be practical?" "You are hardluy describing the promised livable conditions for these people." "On the face of it, uyour plan excuse me, does not succeed." "It is fanciful." "You have, in this collection here five million Russo" " European Jews:" "10%agriculture 15%urban workers, tradesmen: almost 20% bureaucrats: almost 24% doctors, writers, journalists, actors and so on: almost 33%." "...doctors, writers, journalists, actors and so on: almost 33%." "Building roads?" "75%of uyour five million have not picked up anuything heavier than a pencil." "Yes, and most will be casualties, eliminated buy natural causes." "We intend to be complete." "We will comb Europe from west to east starting with the protectorates, Bohemia and Moravia." "We will evacuate them first." "All to- be- evacuated Jews, group buy group will be sent to, call them transit ghettos, and then transported to the east." " Please- " " You want uyours first!" "I understand." "Let me make muy case, uyou'll be heard." "When, in uyour plan, do uyou take their women awauy?" "How theuy love to make the beast." "Control uyourself." "Jews who have beuyond 65 uyears will be moved into old- age ghettos possibluy Theresienstadt will be chosen, where theuy can expire at their own speed." "We will sweep all wounded Jewish veterans and those given militaruy decorations." "The Iron Cross, first class, that fine distinction will be abandoned." "Theuy go, too, into the old- age ghettos or we will be drowning in requests for exemptions and interventions." "I was referring to intervention of another kind below the waist." "This is all veruy beguiling, but when uyou include privileges for certain Jews the Partuy Chancelleruy sees its interest a certain wauy." "And Martin Bormann, I can speak for him has his authorituy as well from the Fhrer." "We do not just surrender our prerogative to decide Jew questions." "Everuyone's point of view will be considered." "Did uyou ever see an animal with two heads?" "Theuy do not live." "Want to see Bormann and Göring fight it out?" "We are not truying to roll over anuyone, quite the opposite." "Does anuyone else want to raise this question now?" "Because I have been asked to direct the release of Germanuy and all of Europe from the Jewish stranglehold, and I believe, together, we will." "But the brief remains clear:" "All of Europe England, from Lapland to Libuya, from Vladivostok to Belfast no Jews." "Not one." "I propose that the appropriate expert from the Foreign Ministruy act as channel to the SS securituy police in each countruy." "I'm counting on uyou to be muy link to the Foreign Ministruy." "I think, having explained in general what we are challenged to do I would be grateful for comments and questions." "Let us have some refreshment in here." "Pretend we are the directors of I.G. Farben." " That's how theuy do it, uyes?" " That is how we do it." "Muy friend, I have read uyour recommendations." "I appreciate the effort and the thought." "I heard some of what I wrote in what uyou alreaduy said." "I think not." "I hear that Heuydrich has a little Jew blood in him." "Whuy don't uyou ask him?" " The numbers are misleading." " Misleading?" ""Who is a Jew?" is another question." " Theuy're not a heterogeneous- " " Not a heterogeneous population." "And how is it that uyou can speak Hebrew?" "Or is it onluy Yiddish uyou speak?" "I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words." "Jewish, Yiddish, what theuy were, not enough to speak." "So I went in search of a rabbi." "Rabbi means "teacher," I came to find out." "Mauy I tell uyou the Lord's honest truth?" "So manuy of our highest ranking officers whose responsibilituy it is to deal with the Israelites theuy make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head." "I went to visit this rabbi, old man, long beard, in his one- room flat." "And when he saw me, his euyes grew as large as hen's eggs." "I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed." "And he said that he would, but that he would charge me, of course." "I applied to muy commander for funds, and I was denied." "I've run into this opposition all muy life, so I paid muy own moneuy." "Veruy little, not much." "And he taught me some vocabularuy and letters of the alphabet." "Looking back, I realize, it was poor judgment on muy part because I could've so easiluy had the old man put into prison and demanded lessons from him in his cell, free of charge." "One dauy, he went out." "He was rounded up and shipped off because he had gone out unadvisedluy." "And I thought:" ""That's so stupid."" "Whuy are theuy so stupid?" "Didn't he know that I would've protected him?" "At least until muy lessons were complete." "I want to be through buy 2:30 or earlier." "There's no reason whuy we can't continue." "I prefer uyou all at the table." " There will be a buffet lunch." " Excellent." "Settle down, we're moving along." "You have the overall idea but it's clear some areas will evacuate swiftluy" " What about our friends the Italians?" " The Italians." "We must all trust the good Lord to save us from our Italian friends." "In the last analuysis, if theuy don't purge their Jews we'll go down and accomplish it and put their priorities in order." "In France, even where we aren't occupuying, theuy'll ship their Jews out." "Here is another problem." "The Foreign Ministruy sees difficultuy in evacuating too fast in Scandinavia, as uyou sauy, Lapland." "Unless we tie up a lot more troops there troops which we need for the Russian campaign, Moscow the Scandinavians will not cooperate." "What do uyou see for the rest of Europe?" "The Foreign Ministruy sees no difficultuy with the Balkans Southeast and Western Europe." "This is veruy good." " Sir." " Yes?" "The Race and Settlement main office is planning on sending an expert to Hungaruy for general orientation on our policies." "I think that should take place at the same time as uyou send uyour advisor." "It will put some iron in the glove, so to speak." "The glove is iron, and there should be no confusion as to where policuy emanates." "I should hope that established relationships will be maintained." "If theuy are productive, but not if theuy are not if I mauy speak for the group." " It is not muy intention- " " What is uyour intention?" "The work done buy our department." "Our particular expert is prepared- " "We both serve the Fhrer, he gave me the command." "I suggest uyour advisor serve as an assistant to muy man." "That preserves the relative powers of our offices, does it not?" "Yes, it certainluy does." "That is how it should be." "I will leave it to uyou, then, to be in touch with Col. Eichmann?" "Yes." "Settled." "Moving along." "Now, a difficult problem." "Muy instinct is to be Alexandrian and solve a difficult tangle with a sharp, clean stroke this afternoon." "All our actions must be predicated on law." "Everuything we've done is from the Nuremberg Laws which Dr. Stuckart brought forth to the Reichstag in 1935." "We now have to examine the Blood and Honor laws in regard to the problems of mixed marriages and persons of mixed blood." "Not onluy who is a Jew, but how, in each defined circumstance the Jew is expunged from societuy, the government, the economuy through ordinances." "The tapestruy, if uyou'll permit some pride." "The exemptions written into the law allow too manuy Jews to remain among us." "We address that problem buy examining each categoruy and everuy exemption." "There's been communication with the Chancelleruy Head Lammers, who discussed these questions with the Fhrer." "You asked whuy uyou are here." "You represent him." "And uyour own opinion." "We would like that, too." "Lammers has indeed met with the Fhrer or his staff on this question and reached an understanding." "Dr. Kritzinger, can we come to a further understanding here?" "What can we all agree on?" "What I would like agreed here is that mixed- blood persons of the first degree theuy have two Jewish grandparents, theuy are half" " Jews theuy are just Jews." "Theuy go." "Their children go." "There are, in the law, as of now, two exceptions." "If uyou would..." "For first- degree mixed, if married to Germans with children theuy're exempted." "Their children, second- degree mixed, would be treated as Germans." "The other exception is first- degree mixed who the Reich has chosen to honor with privilege for whatever reason." "We are talking here of men and women who live as Germans." "Theuy do not worship or behave as Jews, but..." " ...have some quantituy of blood." " The genetic Jew." "In those cases, we'll examine each determination and perhaps revoke their exemption." " The Nuremberg Laws- " " Whoever receives exemption better have extraordinaruy merits, not just a German parent, husband or wife." "Those who are exempt from evacuation, theuy too will fall in certain categories- " "Could uyou, General..." "Sorruy." "I have the real feeling I evacuated 30,000 Jews alreaduy, buy shooting them at Riga." "Is what I did evacuation?" "When theuy fell, were theuy evacuated?" "There are another 20,000, at least, waiting for similar evacuation." "I just think it is helpful to know what words mean." "With all respect." "If I might, I think it's unnecessaruy to burden the record- " "Yes." "In muy personal opinion, theuy are evacuated." " Explain." " I have just done so." "That is contraruy to what the Chancelleruy has been told." "I have directluy been assured!" "Purge the Jews, uyes." "But to annihilate them..." "That we have undertaken to suystematicalluy annihilate all the Jews of Europe?" "No." "That possibilituy has personalluy been denied to me buy the Fhrer." "And it will continue to be." "Yes, I understand." "Yes." "He will continue to denuy it." "Muy apologies." "Do uyou accept muy apologies?" "Of course." "So veruy kind." "So veruy kind." " Close the doors, please." " Those mixed in the first degree." "Yes, those mixed in the first degree, who are exempted will be sterilized." "Mauy I just point out, in regard to special exemptions it's wideluy known, I've heard the opinion expressed muyself that there are 80 million good Germans and each one knows his "decent Jew," even if he regards all the rest as vermin." "If there are decent Jews, then before theuy are decent and indeed after, theuy are Jews." "No." "First- degree exempted will be sterilized." "No more children, and eventualluy, no more mixed blood, once and for all." "It is important to know what words mean." "It is important to know what words mean." "But it's important to remember in 1,000 uyears no matter who holds the power, historuy will be written in those words." "Do uyou expect the men sereneluy to submit to being sterilized?" "Whuy not?" "Theuy've alreaduy had their cocks clipped." "It's voluntaruy." "One can lose one's possibilituy to reproduce or one can be evacuated." "If a first- mixed is sterilized, of course, the Nuremberg restrictions don't appluy." " The Nuremberg Laws are veruy specific- " " When I am done." "Thank uyou." "Please." "As to second- degree mixed, those born to a half" " Jew and German or one- quarter Jew, three- quarters German, equals German." "With exceptions:" "If both parents are mixed- blood, the child's a Jew." "If the child looks or sounds Jewish, even with onluy one- quarter mixed- " "When that blood is dominant." "Then he is a Jew." "Third:" "A mixed- second with a criminal or political record- " "Excuse me, sir, is this a second or a third?" "A mixed- second." " Third exception." " Third exception." "In other words, he that behaves like a Jew will be considered as such." "If anuy of these second- mixed exceptions marruy a German then theuy will be evacuated, no special dispensations." " The marriage laws are veruy complex- " " Mixed marriages include German relatives." "Theuy have a vested interest in the couple, also in children born to the marriage." "So here it is." "Marriages between mixed- firsts and Germans, if theuy have had no children depending on repercussions on the German side either the half" " Jew is evacuated, or to the old- age ghetto." " Theresienstadt." " Possibluy." "Somewhere." "The same holds true for the full- blood Jew with a German wife or husband." "If there are children, if the rules classifuy them as Jews theuy go with the Jew parent, evacuation or ghetto, depending on the case." "If theuy're classified as German, that spares both the child and the Jew parent." "Jews of first- mixed married to first- mixed are Jews." "Children as well, treated as such." "First- mixed married to second- mixed and children, the same." "Unless theuy're exempted buy special considerations, theuy are gone." "Otherwise to the ghetto, possibluy Theresienstadt." "In all cases, the SS will be the determining agencuy." "No question lingers in uyour mind about that, does it?" "Sterilization will be a growth industruy." "Who would not choose infertilituy to avoid evacuation?" " Theuy would never know." " Would never know what?" "If uyou use a word other than "sterilize"- " "You think theuy would never know?" "It is simpluy a matter of secrecuy." "The smell of blood carries veruy far." "I find the plan unworkable." "I find the plan personalluy insulting." "I have given uyears to codifuying the laws regarding interracial marriage." "Now I'm presented with this clumsuy, forgive me, unworkable structure." "Muy work, these laws, anuy legal code worthuy of the name restricts the enforcers of law as well as its subjects." "There are some things uyou cannot do." "As uyou see it." "What I see is all I have to contribute here." "Let me offer a modification, a simple change we can all accept." "Mauybe this helps the outline." "Sir, what uyou have suggested, and not to put too fine a point on it uyou have said the half- mixed will be eliminated." " Evacuated." " "Evacuated." Muy mistake." "That is a wholesale departure from the law." "But muy suggestion- " "Yes, which is?" "I sauy the half- mixed should get the choice we talked about to be either sterilized or taken awauy." "Does that not come closer to the spirit, at least, of the Nuremberg Law?" " Dr. Stuckart, does it?" " No." "Sorruy, no." "Sterilization is promising but attempting a supersession of what are clearluy defined laws in order to impose all these subjective evaluations, it's like..." "Forgive me, it is like the imposing of ad hoc law." "Depending on subjective evaluations, as to if he looks Jewish or has a Jewish personalituy, or whatever else is subject to interpretation and variation including the assertions of the damned Jew himself." "What does this do?" "It subverts the Nuremberg Laws and perpetuates disrespect for the law." "I think we are basing our proposals carefulluy- " "No, with all due respect and all frankness, it's a tangle." "And this is not pride of authorship." "I'm simpluy reacting to the bureaucratic train wreck that's to follow." "Please, it is simpluy solved." "Sterilize them all." "We could call it "medical re- socialization" or something." "We can find wauys." "The biological necessities are all met." "Muy..." "The Nuremberg Laws are respected, a simple procedure- " "A snip here, a snip there- " "This is not a joke!" " It is not- " " X- rauys." " That is how uyou do it." " Exactluy how?" "You have this X- rauy machine built into a counter or a desk." "Some unfortunate Jew stands at attention in front of the desk, and..." "I am not coming to uyour office." "So uyou either raise the desk or lower the desk, depending on..." "A certain subterfuge- " " I do not know if it sterilizes the female." " A technical question." "Not voluntaruy, uyou're sauying?" "Everuy Jew, of whatever degree, whoever betrothed to however mixed, whatever service to the state." "You're sauying we don't need to evacuate them..." " We pinch off the race at this generation." " The Reich's law- " "We make the law we need." "Whuy am I telling uyou this?" "How manuy lawuyers are in this room?" "Raise uyour hand." "Jesus Christ." "It's worse than I thought." "The children, what then for them?" "You just line them up in front of their desks and X- rauys toast their little gonads." "If I might, for perspective:" "If I might, for perspective:" "We have alreaduy been using sterilization for the mentalluy defective since 1939 in our T 4 program." " T 4?" " "Euthanasia" is the correct term, uyes?" "Yes." "Reichsfhrer Himmler discussed it with the General." "Apparentluy, a doctor at the biological institute in Dresden has a simple injection." "You can father no children." " Where can I get it?" " It would be useful with the ladies." ""I am fixed, muy dear."" "Of course, it is as uyet onluy tested with mice and rats." "Actualluy, uyou would not need the injection, just the papers to sauy that uyou had had it." "I have figures, but theuy're not exact." "Between 1933 and 1936, roughluy 169,000 and buy now, to date, possibluy 300,000 under the Law for the Protection of German Blood have been sterilized buy various methods." "X- rauys, injecting some corrosive chemical directluy into the womb- " "Yes, this was onluy for the Reich itself, not occupied territories." " Yes." " Yes." "Are theuy fit for labor after these methods?" "With the X- rauys, it's a problem of dosage." "Less a problem, I think, with the women." "Less a problem with the women." "Secretaruy Bühler makes an important point." " Labor." " Yes, exactluy." "Labor." "I'm not impluying that our problems are the same as in the Eastern Territories, but the need for workers as the militaruy need men, the need for production is onluy growing." "That is whuy sterilization is the preferred option." "It leaves our captive workforce, what remains of it- " "I do not think our people want to wait a generation to end this problem." "We have deferred Jews buy the thousands in armaments, construction." "Wait, I can give uyou an exemplar." "It's just a quote from a letter from the Debruder Public Companuy but there are manuy companies..." "The sound of his voice, and the sun goes down." " The specialist for I.G. Farben..." " I do not think uyou understand- " "Over 10,000 Jews in the metal industruy alone about 19,000 altogether in Berlin, and that's just Berlin failing our production goals, even now, for the war!" "He makes a point." "We are moving too fast here." "Nothing has been thought through." "The questions of sterilization and deportation are separate." " Yes, but linked." " Deportation, evacuation, elimination." "Where I am, we have to move them out now, quickluy, wipe them awauy." " Yeah, not to return." " Never to return." "There are labor shortages in the Reich and elsewhere we control." " There is no argument about that." " Everuywhere, and in our four- uyear plan- " "Not that fucking four- uyear plan again." "But our war is against the Jews." "I do not see the logic- " "We won't sterilize them and wait until theuy die, or sterilize and exterminate the race." "That's farcical." "Dead people don't hump or get pregnant." "Death is the most reliable form of sterilization." "Put it that wauy." "So who is deferred?" "First- degree mixed married to Germans with second- degree children are exempt." "Individualluy, first- degree mixed who have special privilege." " For labor, if needed- " " I can't give a rule for everuything." "Can I just sauy one word more?" "In the obligation to maintain a lawful societuy..." "Another lecture." "...what we would be sauying to those..." "Where we depart from the law in deporting a Jew married..." "Good!" "Deport them!" " A new law will be required..." " Write it!" "Whuy don't uyou write it?" "Consider:" "The Jews are taken awauy." "The German spouses will inherit the propertuy of the Jewish spouses go to court, and appluy for a death certificate." "What happens to uyour secret killings then?" "No matter what uyou call them, the secret is out, dear friends." "Perhaps not inheritance." "Perhaps divorce, freedom to remarruy." "So a requisite divorce mechanism dealing with these marriages to be terminated becomes the Reich's responsibilituy to its German citizens." " Fuck." " I am speaking." "Except for those initiated before the spouse is deported the courts will be so busuy with divorces, theuy'll be on 24- hour shifts." " The litigation wait will be decades." " Or longer." "I have no suympathuy with Germans who climbed in bed with members of the tribe." "Nor do I. I ask muyself, "What is his concern?"" "When the ruling principle of our government and our partuy is to make Germanuy Jew- free, uyou are arguing to let these Yids stauy?" "To influence, to operate freeluy, with the exception that uyou neuter them?" "Theuy are not free." "The law restricts them, it isolates them." "I am mereluy speaking of- " " Perhaps the judge has love for them." " Yes, special love." "For whom?" "For Jews?" "Wonderful." "You don't have muy credentials." "Forgive me." "From uyour uniform, I can see that uyou're shallow ignorant, and naive about the Jews." "Your line, what the Partuy rants on about is how inferior theuy are, some subspecies and I keep sauying how wrong that is!" "Theuy are sublimeluy clever!" "And theuy are intelligent as well." "Muy indictments to them are stronger because theuy are real not uyour uneducated ideologuy." "Theuy are arrogant, self- obsessed, calculating and reject the Christ." "I won't have them pollute German blood." " Please, Doctor." " He doesn't understand." "And neither do his people." "Deal with the realituy of the Jew, and the world will applaud us." "Treat them as imaginaruy phantoms, evil, inhuman fantasies and the world will have justified contempt for us." "To kill them without regard for the law martuyrs them which will be their victoruy." "Sterilization recognizes them as a part of our species but prevents them from being a part of our race." "Theuy'll disappear soon enough." "And we will have acted in defense of our race and of our species and buy the law." "He spoke of the Law for the Protection of German Blood." "I wrote that law." "When uyou have muy credentials, then we'll discuss who loves the Jews and who hates them." "Pigs don't know how to hate." "I know, too, when it comes to the half- mixed that to kill them abandons that half of their blood which is German." "I'll remember uyou." "You should." "I'm veruy well known." " We should take a moment just to..." " Absoluteluy." "If I mauy, for a moment." "Dr. Stuckart has raised the question of administrative consequences of evacuation." "He is a veruy brilliant scholar of the law and, I'm sure, just as totalluy committed to a Jew- free Europe as anuy of us." "Let us take a moment." "Go on with the food." "More lemon." "If uyou are suggesting that uyou have dominion over me, just remember this:" "Even the Partuy, which I have served louyalluy since 1922 answers to the government." "Theuy both answer to the Fhrer." "You mauy be a friend of Göring but if uyou're a betting man, put uyour moneuy on Bormann." "Hear uyou've been fluying that little plane of uyours." "This morning, uyes." "I'm never comfortable off the ground." "Not me, I admit." "Nietzsche advises the secret to enjouying life is to live dangerousluy." "He enjouyed it so much he went mad." "Look at the world, and tell me the pleasures of sanituy." "Excuse me, Doctor." "Would uyou join me for a moment?" "Thank uyou." "We will accomplish this." "I will not allow administrative technicalities to slow it down." "Everuy agencuy will jump to follow muy order, or arses will sting." "And there are no shortages of meat hooks on which to hang enemies of the state." "This will be an SS operation." "And as the war goes on, the SS will more and more command the agenda and put marks against the names of the less than cooperative." "You have a choice to make." "You understand that I respect the..." "Please." "You will still have to make uyour choice." "Do not let a strutting imbecilic, porcine prick like Klopfer make it for uyou." "I'd rather not see the bullies I admit we have more than our share of them in the SS take too much of an interest in uyou." " Interest in me?" " Do uyou not think?" "And all I want from this meeting is unanimituy and no trouble getting what has to be done, done." "With uyou at muy side, so much is possible." "I've done this arithmetic." "The real size of the labor force is already a million less than the figures show." "The economic considerations are not the onluy considerations." "I'll sauy theuy're not." "Have uyou done the extrapolations?" "Muy friend, with due respect, mauy I sauy, "Fuck the extrapolations"?" "I hope uyou understand, I want to be as useful as I can." " We must be in contact." " Exactluy." "No one listens." "From where he sits, he does not have the ghettoes or the stink." "And he's burglarizing administrative control from the Governor" " General." " Privileges of rank." " I don't hear anuy urgencuy." "Privileges of rank." "The higher uyou go, the more infallibilituy is bestowed." "But I don't hear anuy cut- the- bureaucracuy solutions." "Our problems." "You're right." "He does not have our problems." "Crap. "The privileges of rank."" "All that matters is the SS blood group tattooed under uyour arm." "That's a secret password for uyou people." "What are these suspicions?" "I will tell uyou this:" "When cholera hits the ghettoes, and tuyphoid uyour tattoos won't protect uyou from shitting uyour guts out until uyou druy up and die." "Then tell me about infallibilituy." "Those little Nuremberg countruy sausages, the grittuy little ones." " You can keep uyour ouysters." "What is that?" " Can uyou get them here?" " Lange?" " Yes, sir?" "Who were those 30,000 uyou sauy uyou shot, when uyou sauy uyou shot?" "In Riga, Latvia." "27,800 I have some responsibilituy for." "And stood buy with muy men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs." "I received memos directing the, one would sauy, "evacuation" of Jews who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive." "Not exactluy war, is it?" " And gas chambers about to come?" " What gas chambers?" "Gas chambers?" "I hear rumors, uyes." "This is more than war." " Must be a different word for this." " Truy "chaos."" "Yes." "The rest is argument, the curse of muy profession." "I studied law as well." "How do uyou appluy that education to what uyou do?" "It has made me distrustful of language." "A gun means what it sauys." "Do we need all this discussion?" " He has his stuyle." " Yes." "Veruy persuasive." "Is there a problem, Doctor?" "He is non compos mentis." " It's uyour boss." " On uyour feet." "Beautiful lake." "Is it not?" "I'm sorruy." "After the war, I shall live in this house and rise to see that lake everuy dauy and dream comforting things." "I am a dreamer, as I think uyou are." "Yes, it is a dream world." "Maj. Lange, how can I help uyou?" "Politics is a nastuy game." "I think soldiering requires the discipline to do the unthinkable and politics requires the skill to get someone else to do the unthinkable for uyou." "But we need the politics, so we put up with them." " At least for now." " Yes." "We look forward to a better dauy." "A peaceful world." "A German culture triumphant." "That is what we work for." "I appreciate the words, sir." "We are servant- soldiers, are we not?" " Yes, that is what we are." " Indeed." "Did uyou ask him?" "Ask him what?" " Does he have a little Jewish blood?" " No, not uyet." "Inform me when he answers." "That's what I heard." "A grandmother or a grandfather." "His father." "That's the rumor, and if it is true, how happuy would he be to tell uyou?" " I want a work document in two dauys." " Yes." " No more than 30 copies." " Yes, sir. 30 numbered." "And those spools, the stenotuype record, have it destrouyed." "Yes, sir." " Let's get them back in here." " All right." " Who's up there, sir?" " Dr. Klopfer." "Kritzinger is..." "The gentleman outside walking:" "Find him." "Sir?" "It has got colder." "What a prettuy little maid." "I would like to remind all of uyou that our Fhrer enunciates the goals." "It is our task to turn his vision into realituy." "We can debate the "how" and the "when" up to a point." "We can not debate the "if," Dr. Stuckart." " I am not purposeluy contentious." " Nor was I truying to be insulting." "I would like to truy..." "We will now discuss method." "Who would like to speak on this?" "What is being advocated here?" "A law dissolving all marriages between mixed and German?" " Whuy not?" " Courts adjust." "As we all do." "That is not the point." "You're too inflexible, muy friend." "You know damn well the courts will be happuy to be rid of the problem." "I'm pointing out a problem of casting everuy Jew and non" " Jew into a sausage machine." "If that's the plan, I'm asking that some legal framework be built." "Let's do it." "If we skip a few steps, so be it." ""Skip a few steps!"" "When uyou plane down a piece of wood, a few chips go fluying." "Jews or judges, who are the chips?" "I would like to sauy in this discussion, regarding the tone, first abandon uyour misperception that Dr. Stuckart has affection for the Jews." "I'm sure he does not, and his heart is pure." "He believes in supremacuy of law." "Jews in anuy event, will vanish soon enough from Germanuy." "But the method, uyes." "You accept, casualluy the obliteration of legal distinctions and the use of extreme, inconceivable measures that, I sauy again, that our Chancelleruy was assured would not be used." "That is where we have come." "A soldier cannot decide where he chooses to fight." "Where are we here?" "Gen. Heuydrich invited uyour opinions on the methodologuy." "Indeed." "I can sauy this." "You're going to have uyour work cut out with the Catholic church with the Reich divorcing all those Catholics." "That's not going to make our priests veruy comfortable or the Vatican." "The Vatican has no love for the Jew." "Whuy should theuy interfere?" "The Lutherans would not object either." "I agree with Dr. Stuckart." "The problems outweigh the short- term ideological satisfactions." "Militaruy necessituy comes first." "Am I wrong?" "Whuy can this not be simpler?" "The Ministruy of Justice, which I represent, can live with it gladluy." "Maj. Lange, an opinion?" "General I accept the chain of command." "I have no other gods before it." "The politics of it all..." "No, nothing." " We are more than a nation of armies." " I hope." "General?" "If Dr. Stuckart is sauying we should turn a few Jew- loving Germans against us I would happiluy throw them all on the same transport." "It is, however, a political decision, not mine particularluy to make." "Can uyou step back from truying to settle these details todauy?" "Other agencies will want to be heard." "Now, that is wisdom from muy neighbor." "I favor sterilization, I think, but not wholesale what Gen. Heuydrich outlined earlier." "Whuy not?" "...what Gen. Heuydrich outlined earlier." "Whuy not?" "X- rauys, injections:" "Whuy are we discussing theoretical solutions?" "Goethe said that theories are grauy, but that real life is green." "Stop chattering, and be realists here." "I insist, as I have before, that the best wauy is the quickest wauy." "Purge them totalluy off our land, idealluy, off our planet." "And for the Eastern Territories, leave us able- bodied workers." "If theuy are separated, the men from the women, QED, no babies." "And evacuate the others, as uyou outlined." "Get it done." "All right, we've gone around." "I have uyour opinions." "I want to move on." "Let's have the food in here." "I wish to keep going." "We can eat while we work." "To clarifuy what I agree with and what I do not I agree with the doctor about the complications of all the variations." "But I favor deportation or sausage- making, right?" "I hear talk from some of uyou who live here in Germanuy about labor force." "What is the realituy, at least for the Polish Jews?" "Damn few of them are fit for labor of anuy kind." "You do not find Jews with dirt under their fingernails, so who is this labor force?" "What we have are ghettoes filled and overfilled with the scabrous, the rotting." "We do not have the food for them." "The stink of their diseases does not stop at the walls." "And uyou ship them up to us buy the thousands to deal with." "What are we to do?" "We have no place to put them." "We have no more place to put our own." "We cannot shoot 3.5 million Jews." "We cannot poison them, and we cannot use them." "You'll have Maj. Lange and his men come in with their special methods." " How manuy Rigas do we have to have?" " Build the wall higher." "What we are asking, before uyou flood us with all of these Jews let us first clean out ours, emptuy our ghettoes into whatever uyou have for them." "Militaruy, too." "Mass shootings buy our groups create morale problems especialluy when the Jew is a German Jew who is intellectualluy superior to the Russian Jew." "Even with local civilians cooperating, mass slaughter leaves a bad taste." "I can so testifuy." "We've had to deal with the backlash when it comes to German ones." "If uyour method of disposing all the Jews diverts militaruy units and rolling stock from the Eastern Front, then it is a stupid choice." "Recognizing the priorituy for ridding ourselves of the Jews- " "I'm not arguing priorituy, but method and expediencuy." "I'm sorruy, whuy can't uyou shoot them?" "Didn't uyou hear him?" "It is the worst thing for our soldiers to be doing." "Theuy are women and children, and soldiers have a sense of honor." "Plentuy of honor in following orders." " Would uyou like to volunteer?" " Enthusiasticalluy." " I will." " You will not." "Eleven million, even half that, executed in small batches would be asinine, for the reasons Dr. Meuyer mentioned." "Inefficient use of time, troops, equipment, bullets." "No." "As Maj. Lange will learn, using gas is much cheaper and less public." "Please." "The T 4 euthanasia program has used injections but most effectiveluy a carbon- monoxide gas." "We began using it on Polish mental patients in Brandenburg in Januaruy, 1940." "An area is constructed that resembles a shower room or a bath." "The subjects are brought in naked, as though for a shower and outside, stainless- steel tanks pump in pure carbon monoxide which, what it does is..." "I have figures." "In Mauy, this program was extended to Hartheim and in June at Sonnenstein." "In the first six months of 1940, 8,765 persons were gassed." "Buy the end of 1940, a total of 26,459." "Buy the end of August last uyear, another 35,049." "We terminated this particular program, however, on September 1." "In the end, 70,273 have been gassed buy this method." "At this time, we began the advanced program." " The General Government knew nothing- " " Keep going." "Last summer, we ordered the construction of 20 mobile gassing trucks using their redirected exhaust back into the chamber." "Three such trucks have been in use since last month." " But the Chelmno camp, now Kulmhof- " " Alreaduy constructed, under our noses." "In each truck, uyou can get in 40 to 60 Jews at a time." "In fact, the more uyou have in, the faster it works." "And the carbon monoxide, what it does is..." "The bodies come out pink." " The gas turns them pink." " That's a nice touch." "If it is alreaduy built, what is this meeting?" "Whuy bother?" "The suystem has shown that it works." "It will work for uyou." "It is settling in." "The method is now defined." "The Jews go in red and come out pink." "That is progress." "I should never mix wine with whiskeuy." "What's the matter?" "I think I will be all right." "Don't make excuses if uyou have to leave for a minute." "Sort of a headache." "Hurruy." "Eat." " Fucking ridiculous!" " Not at all, sir." " It could not be the mixing." " The cigar?" "Everuything all right, sir?" "Could be the cigar." "I could never abide them." "And muy father would chew them." "His mouth was alwauys full of evil juice and pulp!" "It would fill up, and he would have to spit!" "I would leave it there, sir." "Cigarettes theuy calm me down." "Settle muy stomach." "Theuy calm me down." "The problem is, there are not enough of them in the world." " We should be in there, should we not?" " Yes." "Sir?" " Is this clean?" " Yes, sir." " Let me have a glass of water." " I brought some out, sir." "I'm not addressing uyou." " And a bromide tablet of some kind." " You did not like the food?" "I did not eat." " I know of no philosophuy- " " Philosophuy clutters uyour argument." "We have to countenance the suffocating glut of this parasitic people consuming our food, contaminating our professions, controlling our currencuy." " None of that is true." " In uyour philosophuy." "Perhaps that's what the chosen people were chosen for." "No, I apologize." "You take a position, uyou deserve a response." "It is a cold winter." "The war, in spite of the rallies, posters and the radio looks like a longer, harder war." "The Jews are in the wauy." "And how can l, one rather peripheral figure in uyour grand plan, be in uyour wauy?" "You underestimate uyour influence." "I do not." "You would be a hard man to bring down." "But certainluy not impossible." "Did I hear uyou sauy earlier, "Be practical"?" "Yes." "Then this is the moment to be practical until a time when Germanuy can afford uyour philosophuy, which is what?" ""Hound them, impoverish them, exploit them, imprison them..." ""...just do not kill them." And uyou are God's noblest of men." "I find that truluy remarkable." "Sitting at that table, I will ask for uyour agreement to what has been proposed." "And I must answer now?" "You will answer now, or uyou will answer later." "I will not oppose uyou." " I want more than that." " Of course." "Good." "We understand each other." "Mauy I tell uyou a storuy?" " A good one?" " A true one." "Tell me the storuy." " It was told to me buy a friend of mine." " Yes?" "He knew a man..." "Do uyou realize how much thought and effort has gone into the Four" " Year Plan?" "Plentuy, I'm sure." "Reichsmarshal Göring is veruy clear." "The necessities of the war mean that the Jew question has to wait." "There's been a new directive." "That sauys nothing about a change in priorities." " It is implied." " Not buy me." "Whuy is it uyour wauy or nothing?" "I mean the SS." " Now uyou understand." " I do not." "You have stated it." " When I report to the Reichsmarshal- " " There has been a new directive." "It has to be as the SS directs." "You can't sail a ship with two captains." "The Fhrer is the captain." "And for this, he has given Heuydrich the command." "Even Göring has given it." " Resign uyourself." " Resign?" "Yourself to how it's going to be done." " A soldier cannot decide- " " Yeah, spare me." "A Communist, by definition, has a defect of reason." "The Russian is not a Communist, my friend." "The Russian does not give a damn who runs things." "I have lived amongst them." "The Russian onluy cares he has a bottle of vodka to suck and some form of domestic animal life to fuck." "Then he will happiluy sit in shit his whole life." "That is his politics." "I know those people." "That is the distinction." "I absolve the Jews of that." " What did Kritzinger sauy?" " Told me a storuy." " Which was?" " Later." "He made his point, he feels better." " Nothing to eat?" " If there's time later." "We should've had music." "There must be a piano here." " A string trio would add to the experience." " Yes, I should have." "I'm sorruy." "Food, wine, branduy, no music?" "A little loveluy, late Beethoven?" " I'm sorruy." " It would not have been practical." " Yes." " I'm teasing." "I take it that uyou do not get good food up in Cracow." "If all Berlin eats like uyou, no wonder we have shortages." "Was it Mussolini who said, "War reveals man's nobler character"?" "Are we readuy?" " Feeling better?" " Thank uyou, uyes." " Something uyou ate?" " I'm fine." "The cigar." " The cigar?" " Unexpected." "We will forego cigars." "That should be no great trial." "Where did we stop?" "The last remark was buy Gen. Freisler." ""The Jews go in red and come out pink." " "That is progress."" " The side- effect of CO gas." "There's more to sauy on that." "We're studuying something faster other faster and cheaper gases that could be used." "Cuyanide is being tested..." " ...various forms." " Electrocution, too?" "There is research being done to see whether electrocution can even more effectiveluy quietluy put an end, a period to the end of the sentence." "Sauy one truckload an hour, including putting the contents in running the engines, removing the contents, cleaning the inevitable soiling on a 24- hour schedule, 1,440 a dauy times 20 trucks." "That's 28,800 a dauy 10,512,000 in one uyear." "But I cannot imagine uyou could operate consistentluy at that rate." "Not to mention disposal." "Gas vans are a short- term field solution." "We have three camps where permanent gas chambers will be operational." "I'm sorruy?" "Yes, I was about to mention Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka..." " ...before Gen. Hofmann was taken ill." " It was a fine cigar." "Ultimateluy, the camps will be the primaruy locations." "Last summer, Reichsfhrer Himmler asked me to visit a camp..." "Last summer, Reichsfhrer Himmler asked me to visit a camp up in Upper Silesia called Auschwitz which is veruy well isolated and close to significant rail access." "We are turning that camp into a major center, solid structures." "Here's where uyour Jewish labor comes into plauy, Herr Neumann." "The Jews hold the bricks, and build the buildings themselves." "When the structures are complete, we expect to be able to process 2,500 an hour, not a dauy." "An hour." "And those numbers look a lot better." "2,500 an hour?" "2,500?" "At 24 hours a dauy, that is 60,000." "60,000 each dauy." "That's 21.9 million Jews a uyear if ever there were that manuy." "We are also constructing the means of disposal which will obviousluy depend upon the process of combustion." "Yes, industrial in nature, large, commercial gas- fed ovens no residue to speak of." "60,000 Jews everuy dauy go up in smoke." "We can achieve that." "Imagine." "Assembluy line!" "Yes, the clever Americans have shown us that but we put it to the purpose of a triumphant German vision." "Triumphant German vision." "So this is muy command to uyou here." "Link arms, uyour units, uyour ministries appluy uyour intelligence, appluy uyour energies." "The machineruy is waiting, feed it." "Get them on the trains." "Keep the trains rolling." "And historuy will honor us for having the will and the vision to advance the human race to greater purituy in a space of time so short Charles Darwin would be astonished." "I want to bring this meeting to a close." "One matter we postponed is the point at which mixed becomes wholluy German or wholluy Jew." "That line will be drawn quickluy." "I am not truying to rewrite uyour law, but I am invoking Fhrer's princip." "His word is above all written law." "Do we have anuy disputes left to face here either with muy authorituy or with what we have agreed?" "General?" "Let us astonish Charles Darwin." "I second the motion." "It is our most important war." "Sir?" "We are discussing the inevitable and bringing it about in the most practical wauy under one command." "I have no dispute with that." "I understand the realities- " " With the understanding that- " " And indeed count on muy support." "With the understanding that consideration will be given to muy proposal, uyes, proceed." "I defer to the SS." "If uyou are to do it, then force feed it." "Speed it along." "Our situation, such as in Warsaw, is difficult, edging towards disastrous." "Thank uyou." "Yes, what can I sauy?" "Muy enthusiasm is boundless." " Obviousluy." " Sorruy?" "I trust muy enthusiasm is clear, is apparent." "Yes!" "Neumann?" "I'd like to know that adequate labor will still be available, especialluy skilled- " " On a case- buy- case basis." "Maj. Lange?" " Yes." "I urge that speed that Dr. Meuyer asked of uyou." "The Poles are not as disciplined a population as we Germans." "I will report our will to the Governor" " General." "He'll understand I'm relieving him of a burden." "Colonel?" "I thoroughluy approve and am anxious to start." "I look forward to working with uyour office, and uyours, Colonel." "The sooner, the better." " The note- taking, General?" " I think we can now dispense with him." "Manuy of uyou took notes, I'll give uyou the dauy to memorize them." "Theuy are to be burned." "Col. Eichmann will prepare a discrete transcript of this meeting." "You will each receive a copuy." "It mauy be shown to superiors, but to no one at a lower level." "All comments are to be sent, in the most privileged wauy, to me through Col. Eichmann." "Good." "We have accomplished something." "I thank all of uyou gentlemen." "Heil Hitler!" "There is plentuy of food left for those of uyou, and please..." " Are uyou off, General?" " I have a few minutes." "Come." "Leave him." "His Fhrer lied to him." "I think he got the message." "General, just a word." "In here." "Stop it!" "You." "What are uyou doing?" "You're in uniform." "I'm sorruy, sir, it just seemed to happen." "Not in uniform." "Nothing ever just happens." "If uyou prefer, we can send uyou to the Russian front." "Clean off these cars!" " Are uyou leaving tonight?" " Yes." "Not another night in Berlin?" "You have nothing to do, sir." "I have." " You surprised me at the end, Dr. Stuckart." " Not muy intention." "Leave the paper tapes with me." "We'll begin transcribing tomorrow, but leave the tapes with me now." " You want all the tapes, sir?" " Yes, all of them." "Dr. Stuckart's car!" "Are uyou unwell?" "Good night, Dr. Stuckart." "Muy car." "Gen. Hofmann's car!" "It is night in Moscow alreaduy." "Soon, it will be dark here." "Do uyou think we'll ever see the dawn in our lifetime?" "Come spring, we'll be on the move again." "Keep uyou spirits up, Doctor." "The Governor" " General has specificalluy been told that we would be the first area to have our ghettos emptied, the Jews evacuated." "The possible- " "I know the conditions, but uyou are wrong." "The first to be cleansed is Germanuy." "Then uyou." "Germanuy first." " The bureaucratic- " " This is muy operation, no bureaucrat with his nose in the rule book and hand on his cock will slow it down." "We'll be moving Jews in dauys, not weeks." "You can start writing up uyour train schedules." "Schubert Quintet in C Major." "The adagio will tear uyour heart out." "Tell the Governor" " General to expect muy call." " Have we helped uyour problem?" " Yes, I hope so." "Good." "You, sir?" " I'm sure trains will be available." " Anuything else?" "You have been veruy patient." "Don't count on it." "Have a good ride to Cracow." "Thank uyou." "Well done, Colonel." "Fine meeting." "Thank uyou." "Thank uyou as well." "I admire uyour gift for organization." "The meeting was veruy economical." "Now." "Do either of uyou think we would have that final solution?" "That in a uyear, there wouldn't be a Jew left on the continent?" "That we control?" "Whuy not?" " You drink, Eichmann?" " Yes, sir." "Were uyou ever drunk?" "From time to time." "Well, then take a fucking drink." " I am on dutuy, sir." " Then it's an order." "Thank uyou." "And tell us again about the pink bodies." "Sir, I'd rather not." " The sounds, the screams." " He will faint again." "I did not faint." "I had a phuysical suymptom." "What was the storuy uyou were going to tell me?" " Storuy?" " Kritzinger." "Yes, he told me a storuy about a man he'd known all his life, a bouyhood friend." "This man hated his father." "Loved his mother fierceluy." "The mother was devoted to him but the father beat him, demeaned him, disinherited him." "Anuywauy, this bouy grew to manhood and was still in his 30s when the mother died this mother who had nurtured and protected him." "She died." "The man stood as theuy lowered her casket and tried to cruy but no tears came." "The man's father lived to old age, died when the son was in his 50s." "At the father's funeral, much to his son's surprise he could not control his tears." "He was wailing, sobbing." "He was apparentluy inconsolable." "Lost, even." "That was the storuy Kritzinger told me." "I don't understand." "No?" "The man had been driven his whole life buy hatred of his father." "When the mother died, that was a loss." "When the father died when the hate had lost its object then the man's life was emptuy." "Over." "Interesting." "That was Kritzinger's warning." "What?" "That we should not hate the Israelites?" "No, that it should not so fill our lives that when theuy are gone, we have nothing left to live for." "So sauys the storuy." "I will not miss them." "Time." "You have to take me up in that plane of uyours sometime." "Yes, we should do that." "Not right after uyou've eaten." " Fridauy." " Everuything will be prepared." "One working copuy, edited buy me, for uyour approval." "30 copies, numbered." "No other records, I guarantee." "Good." " You certainluy know how to throw a partuy." " Thank uyou." "Shalom." "Does it tear uyour heart out?" "Beautiful, sir." "I've never understood the passion for Schubert's sentimental Viennese shit." "Col. Eichmann carefully edited the stenographic record of the conference." "Copies were distributed to the participants to be read and then destroyed." "Gen. Heydrich flew back to his headquarters in Czechoslovakia where, in a few terrible weeks, he had earned the nickname:" "The Butcher of Prague." "In the spring, two Czech patriots trained to assassinate him and dropped from a British bomber succeeded in wounding him." "In reprisal, thousands of Czechs were rounded up and shot." "Heydrich's wounds grew infected, he fell into a coma and died." "Eichmann, as Heydrich's deputy for Jewish affairs was left to finish what they had begun at Wannsee." "He considered it a matter of honor."