The Wannsee Conference | Full Movie | Willy Lindwer
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- The Wannsee Conference | Full Movie | Willy Lindwer
On January 20, 1942, a conference was held to organize the "final solution" - the destruction of all eleven million European Jews. This documentary examines extensively the historical background to the conference, dealing with the preceding events methodically and largely chronologically.
Director: Willy Lindwer
Writer: Willy Lindwer
Don't know why film and docs have to use loud music to direct the viewer to "appropriate" emotion. Sometimes silences louder and conveys a deeper sense of gratitus.
I write music for movies and docs, this music is a distraction (as well as being awful). Oftentimes the director gets someone they know to do the music to save money and the result is this cheap crap.
I think you mean to say “Sometimes silence is louder and conveys a deeper sense of gravitas.”
“Gratitus” is not an English word.
(I don’t intend to be pedantic. I study other languages and appreciate when a native speaker (politely) corrects my mistakes.)
@@inkyguy Your right. I did mean to say gravitas. Typo.
The masterpiece film No Country For Old Men has no music, like wow.
Thank you very, very much for including the English subtitles.
It’s so important that as many people as possible be able to see and understand this information and the English subtitles extend this documentary’s reach so much further than the German-speaking world.
Really interesting documentary,although the music was way too loud,there was no need for the powerful music at all as the subject and film is powerful enough
Music seems many times that way on these. If you enjoy sound tracts see Berlin 1945 diary of a metropolis. Highly disturbing music but incredibly brilliant
Yes, the music overpowers the narration.
I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany and Professors Bauer and Jaekel I used in my research. They are excellent in their writings and teaching and I appreciate hearing them in this video.
what i fear at the age of 64 in the USA, is the idea that there are groups here now that would not think twice about trying this here
Hello from Germany. I am truly appalled at the way fascism is reaching out its dirty hands to the oldest modern democracy on earth.
You Americans not only liberated the peoples oppressed by the Nazis, you also freed Germany from the grip of this inhuman pestilence and helped make Germany one of the freest and most respected democratic countries on earth.
Don't let this happen in America, fascism is the worst thing that can happen. The most inhuman form of politics.
Yes, and very frighteningly, the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, “Maus,” is being banned by a Tennessee County and several U.S. states, including Florida, are passing laws that forbid the teaching or providing books about anything that could cause a student “discomfort” about their race or other characteristics.
@@ruhri0411 Do you mean fascism of the left or the right and are you so sure that Europe is free of fascism?
Absolutely others would try this in the Us if they could get away with it. It just takes a spark to bring hate to the surface against those so many find inferior. I fear for sure it will happen again. It could be anywhere, even the United States. I thought we had made so much progress in terms of race and religious tolerance since the civil rights movement, but the last few years have shown us just how fragile that can be.
They have always be here...
This is one of the rare works where I felt guilty of giving a thumbs up. As I believe all human beings deserve equal respect and treatment but the willingness of involved to share how easy it was to condemn 11 million souls to death. And more frightening they accomplished OVER 50% of the goal. As it is written "the heart of man is evil, who can know it?" A side note growing up neighbors had escaped from Holland I only wish I knew what I know now to praise and respect them!
I ' d like to know who the lone female at the conference was and if she was ever interviewed about her impressions.
@@ciprianiulian6575 you are a foolish denier
The Japanese killed far more than that, AND so did the Germans and Stalin. Evil Abounded and the Jews were only a portion of the much larger total of "those Murdered" I guess the "squeaky wheel gets "the oil..." Good posting though
I quit watching three minutes in because of the music.
THAT'S WHAT HAS RUINED MANY SUCH PRESENTATIONS. The classic movies from 'the old days' didn't have that, and they're still great to watch.
The music overwhelms the commentary. The lnowledge, and lesson being taught, is almost lost because of this.
Try headphones. One side has audio and the other has music.
Whoever edited this film had 10 thumbs.
Lol I’m glad you said that! I was looking for a comment here like yours
Don't forget the two club-feet.
You can’t hear the dialogue due to the loud music. Are you aware of this. Why even post it.
A full movie with narration? Wahduh!! 🎬 🎞
This is probably a solid documentary based on what you are saying. But the music crushes the narration cannot watch
Then turn down the volume and read the subtitles.
Eichmann was both tortured and coerced for his testimony, before you blindly believe everything, listen to the testimony and how outrageous some of it is, not just the snippets in these “documentaries”.
There really is more then the choice narrative of a winning side…Smarten up
I don’t doubt people beat Eichmann up. But regardless of his personal testimony, we have written documents proving who he was, where he worked, etc. He wasn’t convicted on testimony alone.
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The music overpowers the narrations at times
I have been searching for this movie for over a decade. I grew up in a neighborhood where tattoos were visible when blouses or shirts rode up on arms, and even when children lived there, homes had a palpable grief under the surface and were often unaturally quiet. Others were buoyant with joy and bubbies made homemade applesauce and latkes and we all sang; delighted with the life god gave us. This went to my soul, wanted it for future use and couldn't remember its name. Shalom. Next year in Jerusalem. Pat
No sense of humor, eh?
Sorrowful flex, but you do you.
Pandora Papers revealed that Zelensky was involved with a network of offshore companies, which he co-owned with friends and business partners.
Seriously, the music volume is so loud as to be amateurish. Couldn't finish it.
If you’re having trouble hearing through the music, try headphones. One audio channel has music and the other has narration. If you toggle it you can probably get the vocal side of the audio to stand out more.
The narration needs to be louder in the mix.
What is needed is a better documentary altogether.
Heydrich was definitely a narcissist and possibly a psychopath. I agree with the premise that the Wannsee Conference was a strategy designed to make other agencies acknowledge Heydrich's authority over them. Although theoretically designed to solicit the collaboration of other agencies, Heydrich was making it very clear that he was going to achieve his aims with or without their cooperation. The Wannsee Conference was Heydrich's show of power. Had Heydrich lived a bit longer, he probably would have, in an effort to increase his own power, have started to undermine Himmler.
When Heydrich was laid in hospital after being mortally wounded in his assassination attempt.. Himmler went to visit him..I bet he was wishing he would die,because he was his biggest rival..a few days later he got his wish.
Of course some who have read about Eichmann know that his 'expert' status was based on his familiarity with J's before the Reich. Amazingly he even could adequately speak Yiddish.
He spoke Hebrew not Yiddish
Could someone with audio skills balance/adjust the audio or something, please? I’m sure you would be blessed with views!
Why would you release a documentary with such horrible audio?
I bought this DVD when it came out, and it's the same!
Why would you complain about someone's time and effort that cost you nothing? Patricia
@@patriciapalmer1377 Why would you complain about someone making a legitimate complaint?
The creepy music is so loud we cannot hear the narrator. I think it's a good presentation from what I can hear.
Try headphones or playing with audio channels
Cant hear a dang word over the music
It isn't worth listening to anyway.
Makers clearly knew nothing about sound mixing. Music level atrocious. Drowns the narration.
12:10 If I remember correctly, AH was hit with low levels of poison gas during WW1. Although he was not exposed enough to cause serious injury, he had a period of blindness. Some say genuine, others say hysterical.
Either way, when you combine that personal trauma and the NSDAP notion that Jewish people started WW1 and manufactured the terms of surrender, you get something spiteful. One has to wonder if he saw this grotesque act of mass murder as a justified act of vengeance. “Taste of their own medicine” style thinking from someone who misplaced his rage onto families with children.
Kinda like this talk about "reparations " by black politicians in the US today. Gimme money. There is a line in this movie about Wanseeconferenz, " The Jews will have to pay".
@@gregorypalmer5403 I mean, basically. I’m sympathetic to the idea of reparations because some people _did_ do slave labour. I think the comparison you’re making better applies to violence like the Hi-Fi Murders.
Horrendous audio! Sound needs re-editing!
Interesting watch but terrible documentary production. I don't need modern flash and sound effects but this is just bad. The soundtrack is so unpleasant - just use classical music, it's free. The sound mix is just awful, they didn't balance the historical audio in the final mix either, and the voiceover was clearly added AFTER the final audio mix was completed. "Well, we forgot the VO, we did it wrong. Screw it, throw it ontop of the master mix."
Even after fixing the audio, its a tremendously boring choice. We don't need to WATCH actual historians talk on camera. The visual of their interviews is pointless - why not voiceover historical imagery and animations? You show the interviews with the WITNESSES, not the historians. EXTREMELY poor technically. How did these producers get financing for this - they have less talent than film students.
I like seeing the historians because their expressions and gestures can communicate things. Other than that, excellent points. That stuff about the mix completely went over my head. I’m always impressed by people who have technical skills.
Anyone know of another copy of this? The music is way too loud. I tried to ignore it, but it never stopped lol.
Ruined by the intrusive music drowning out the narration
The music itself is not the problem. It's the audio mix that is the problem. The music is too loud in relation to the narration. I don't know why they didn't fix that.
and, i was ready to blame youtube, since this type of situation has happened with other videos.
Why have music there to begin with.
Please fix the music volume!
11:42 This guy makes several key mistakes. Judaism is not the oldest culture or religion - although it is quite old.
The conflation of Christianity and anti-Semitism also makes little sense. Many of the NSDAP were occultists and pagans, and plenty of modern racists say things like Christianity destroyed native European society and imported customs such as circumcision.
Christianity is also not a monolith, and Protestants and Catholics had very different reactions to the rise of AH as well as unique histories interacting with Jewish people. The NSDAP even persecuted specific types of Christians - Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example. This guy generally gives the impression of binary thinking and ethnic chauvinism. He makes good points and then undercuts himself with appeals to sentiment.
Oh for frights sake, the narration is transistor radio and the music is dolby stereo surround sound!
Get the movie called Conspiracy...very good about this conference
I prefer the German version
That entire movie (Conspiracy) was very chilling. Great job by all the actors.
@@jayo3074 Of Conspiracy?
@@KKG51 yeah its on CZcams. The quality is not as good but it just feels more genuine
The 1984 movie 'The Wannsee Conferenz', with English captions, is far better.
Also, for another view of this conference try watching the HBO film, CONSPIRACY, with Kennth Brannaugh....it's excellent.
Cannot hear the words spoken because the music is so loud.
Different indeed Sir and not easy to be hated for no reason...
There was a female secretary present at wannsee also. What became of her? Was she ever interviewed about her observations/ impression of the conference?
@sydmccreath4554I think this misconception comes from the German 1980s film on the conference - an attractive secretary gets hit on by Heidrich.
Eichmann. Lol. Many Nazi party movers and shakers didn't want to associate with him too much because they thought he looked Jewish, even tho there was no family background to indicate that he had Jewish ancestry. But if you look at the most famous photo of him in his SS uniform, you can see how they might think that he had an appearance of Jewishness.
They all accused each other of being “Jew lovers”, soft on Jewish people, being of partial Jewish heritage, etc. They basically did it at Wannsea amongst themselves - the upper echelons of the Reich’s government. The dudes were literally in a room full of other NSDAP members and calling each other Jewish bolsheviks.
They obviously didn’t believe it - to me it was clearly a cynical power grab only ever countered with an even more cynical appeal to diplomacy. Nevertheless, it shows how neurotic and obsessive they were. No wonder they kept going and going and going. You could literally write the Nuremberg Laws and still be accused of being “soft on Jews” if you weren’t gung ho about mass murder. It’s like some bizarre feedback loop, or an ant mill, where they keep hyping each other up into more and more insane behaviour because the penalty for deviance becomes (seemingly) so high.
Nonsense.
This whole thing could have been handled a lot better, with clearer audio, lower volume on the background music, and a more coherent script.
Fortunately I had to read the subtitles so I could turn the volume down.
Turn the frikking music off, I want to listen to the dialogue ffs....
Willy Lindwer regista che 1989 scrisse il libro " Gli ultimi 7 mesi di Anne Frank" profondo conoscitore del periodo e bravissimo regista.
Background music too loud obscuring dialogue.
did you want us to hear the dialogue? I don't think so since the music is so loud it's drowning it out. Very poor editing.
We are soul less slaves in Europe and that is what the Russians are fighting against being ‘ soulless slaves ‘
The music soundtrack drowns out the narration.
Funny, the documentary is call "The Wannsee Conference" but they don't even start talking about it until 36 minutes in!
I stopped watching after 2mins
Will people stop complaining about the 'loud' music in this documentary and comment on the hoffific plans that the Nazi's were about to implement.
The music is TOO LOUD!
The title is slightly irritating, this is a documentary about the Wannsee Conference, not a movie.
Stop the music plz. Whose idea was it to make this important film to be unable to hear
The audio in this video is absolutely terrible. Almost unwatchable.
Audio is awful.
It's really a waste of money to pay for someone to write music if the music makes it so it can't be understood what it being said. If you can put up a version of this without the music please let me know.
I would have watched but for that GHASTLY RACKET which renders the narrative almost inaudible.
It's almost impossible to hear the spoken words.
Back ground music is too loud.
Try headphones or audio channels.
Yes, Eichman also Heydrick, Hitler too wete demonic characters. We must seriously pose the question how can such utter evil emerge from a Christian educated, highly intelligent, cultured and honourable German people?
Your 'Christianity' is the answer. More people have been killed or made to suffer in the name of 'Jesus' than from any other cause. I would suggest that you step out of your bubble and pay a visit to the real world.
@@leelarson107 Right.
@@leelarson107 Jesus never said to kill others.
Germans are naive .
Music is so LOUD!!!!
At 9:05, it helped me to understand the genesis of anti-semetism. This is an excellent historical background of this maccabre conference.
This clown wants to blame anti-Semitism on Christianity- and then simply says “it eventually morphed into secular anti-Semitism (but still rooted in Christian views)”- *BUT says NOTHING about the fact it was DARWINISM* that led to the eugenics movement, that led to the Nazi belief system in extermination of all inferior races; that “survival of the fittest” led to the belief in the “German Aryan master race”, and its right to conquer the weak so they may be strong and propagate.
@@LiveFreeOrDie2A I can see your point on him seeming to blame anti-Semitism on Christianity. However, I don't think it has anything to do with darwinism.
I made it until 1:17
Music is TOTALLY OVERPOWERING!
The overloud music has put me right off watching.
Sadly after struggling for just 1 min 30 seconds to hear the narration over the music I stopped watching.
The music is to loud to hear them talking
This not the film with Kenneth Branagh, sadly.
The music in the beginning is quite annoying others great film
guter Beitrag
Interesting
Music is way too loud😮
Can't hear the narration because of the overly dramatic BACKGROUND MUSIC. but OK after the first three minutes.
Music WAY TOO LOUD!
With respect, I disagree with Professor Yehuda Bauer. For example, he states that the Jewish civilization is the oldest one. According to some historical researchers, the Sumerians have far more ancient roots, along with the Chinese. Tragically, the great Jewish culture, so rich for their contribution to Humanity, has learned little from their suffering.
@edoedo....
Indeed.
The Aryan Race : God's Chosen People.....
Differentiate the egocentric self-righteousness?
The irony...
@@tnteachertim Yes. Heartbreaking, really is....
That dam mood music ruins any chance to watch this documentary.
Winners decide what was right & what was wrong. Winners decide how history will be written.
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i finally gave up - this documentary looks good but they ruined it with the terrible music that constantly plays on and off throughout.
We truly have become slaves , no work , no money , no life whatsoever without enough money to eat , heat our homes , and pay our cost of living or even pay for our dignified funerals 👿
I am delivering ‘ THE LAST WORD ‘ of Almighty God before we all destroy ourselves. Do not heed this message and die 😇
Can't watch..cannot hear narration over the music.2 min in and I had to stop watching
But why the really loud “background” music and barely audible narration?
Very poignant documentary but loose the loud music...It adds nothing to the documentary!!!!
Cant hear it over the lousy music .
Terrible audio mix; unwatchable/unlistenable.
Try with headphones if you wanna hear the audio
All we hear is loud music. Can't hear narration. Not going to even continue to watch!
Wannsee. France. 700000 foreign Jews.
France 2021: "we have deported 70000 French Jews".
The foreigners have completely disappeared! Vanished!
Do you have a reliable source for this?
1938, there were
700,000 jews in Krakow, today, there are 700
That's a good start.
Older than the Chinese, ROTFL...
Not even if one believe the Biblical mythology...
Listen with just right earphone.
Can't hear anything.
Who is the clown who mixed the sound on this?
This Was Supposed to Be a Movie / Film,
Not a Documentary with Various Guilt-Tripping Talking Heads 👎
Ok so this is the documentary film then compared to the newer German film version from 2022 or the older 1984 German film version, or "Conspiracy" from 2001.
Music is too loud
Try headphones or messing with audio channels
Can’t hear narrator
Only God knows what really happened there.
Superb documentary with excellent contributions by Eberhard Jäckel, Yehuda Bauer & Gabriel Bach. Far superior to the boring movie, Conspiracy.
An individual gave time and effort for free, in hope it would be of value. To complain is like slamming a door in someone's face because you don't like the gift, or throwing it into the trash, while he stands there. Shame on you, and the person that responds by saying, well.. if you're going to do it do it right, or the least he can do is fix the audio before....you. are...a...philistine. Pat
Lighten up, sweetie....
Hey, did all of this catch you at 'the wrong day of the month'? You have a deep-seated psychological problem.
@@martyzielinski1442 I'm 76 and grew up surrounded by shirt and blouse sleeves riding up tatooed arms and smiling faces with permanent grief etched in beautiful eyes. I'll never "lighten up"...sweetie.
@@martyzielinski1442, that was @Patricia Palmer’s precise point: those being so critical need to “lighten up.” You’re comment is both rude and unintentionally self-mocking and ironic.
@@leelarson107, see my other comment. It applies equally to you.
Wow, How could a group of people become that evil. Then how could they get others to follow such evil orders. I hope every generation from the 30s throughout the world history study and learn this history so that it can never be repeated again. I myself had rather been dead then to carry out even one of those orders. It never ceases to amaze me what humans can do to other humans we put in certain situations it baffles the mind
That evil? Think about what the IRS does to you and everyone else.
lol, There were so many genocides after WW2. Some involved murder of millions of people. Did you not hear about Rwanda, what was happened in Indonesia, Korea, Congo, and Cambodia
@@NipunaWeerasinghe you took the words right out of my mouth. Of course there was genocide after WW2. This is been going on throughout the history of mankind. And then someone compares the Internal Revenue Service has equivalent compared to genocide. That's a strange one to me. Just to name a couple more Saddam Hussein committed genocide in Iraq,, North Korea, China, Syria, Sudan
@@leelarson107, your analogy between the Holocaust and the IRS is an extremely poor and incredibly offensive analogy. It really should be removed, but better to let it remain as an example of the way people minimize the Holocaust and engage in victimization fantasies.
@@NipunaWeerasinghe, there have indeed been acts of genocide, before and since the Second World War, including mass genocide such as the “Killing Fields” of the Khmer Rouge. However, *nothing in either scale or practice has ever come close the Holocaust,* which was a systematized, industrialized system of mass slaughter, a killing assembly line, murdering *11 million civilian men, women and children,* 6 million of whom were killed for being Jewish. Others were slaughtered because they were gay, Jehovah’s Witnesses, trade unionists, communists, socialists, Gypsies, mentally ill, mentally retarded, had a birth defect or were otherwise deemed “undesirable.” It was so mass ive that many didn’t believe it had happened until the films and the relatively few survivors emerged. A small but dedicated number of people deny it ever occurred. Others seek to minimize its scale, significance or global impact.
Worse yet, the Nazi program of human extermination has served as a precedent and even an aspiration for regimes that followed so that acts such as the Rwandan genocide do not have the impact they may had were it not for the numbing effects of systematized mass death on such a scale.
Since 6 million is as a number incomprehensible to the human mind in any concrete way, imagine if you were to wait 1 second for every Jewish man, woman or child murdered in the Holocaust (which is not even long enough to speak a victim’s name) you would be waiting for 2 months, 9 days, 54 minutes and 32 seconds. If you’d bother to grant those killed an entire minute, you’d be wait for 11 years, 5 months, 27 days, 6 hours, and 32 minutes.
To include all 11 million men, women and children, including babies, killed by the Nazi Holocaust you would need to essentially double everything above: over 20 years of human slaughter if a murder were committed every minute.
Couldn't watch it with that mix. That editor should find a new line of work.