4 real historical locations · Germany, Poland
A dramatisation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where fifteen senior Nazi officials coordinated the logistics of the Holocaust in 85 minutes. With Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich, the film shows how genocide was reduced to bureaucratic procedure over lunch in a Berlin villa.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, Poland.
January 20 1942 — fifteen senior Nazi officials meet at this lakeside villa for 90 minutes to coordinate the extermination of European Jewry.
The Wannsee Conference did not order the Holocaust — that was already underway. It coordinated logistics: which agencies were responsible for which populations, what to do with mixed-heritage individuals, and how to m...
View location →The Wannsee Conference convenes at this lakeside villa where fifteen senior Nazi officials coordinate the 'Final Solution', the systematic murder of European...
The Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 was chaired by Reinhard Heydrich. Fourteen copies of the protocol were distributed. Only one survived the war, discovered in 1947.
View location →The bureaucratic headquarters from which Heydrich and Eichmann coordinate the deportation and killing operations discussed and ratified at Wannsee.
The RSHA at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 housed the Gestapo, SD, and Kripo under one roof. The site is now the Topography of Terror documentation centre.
View location →Referenced during the conference as proof that mass killing of Jews is already operational, Chelmno is the first death camp to use gas vans.
Chelmno (Kulmhof) began operations on 8 December 1941, six weeks before Wannsee. At least 150,000 people were murdered there using carbon monoxide gas vans.
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