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The Conference — Where the Story Was Set

3 real historical locations · Germany, Poland

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A 2022 German film reimagining the Wannsee Conference, focusing on the bureaucratic and ideological dynamics among the Nazi officials who coordinated the Final Solution. Part of a wave of recent German productions confronting the Holocaust's administrative machinery.

CinemaMapped has mapped 3 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany, Poland.

Locations (3)
Wannsee, Berlin, Germany

The 2022 German film recreates the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 — 15 senior Nazi officials meeting for 85 minutes to coordinate the bureaucratic mac...

The Wannsee Conference was chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and minuted by Adolf Eichmann at a lakeside villa. The 15 attendees represented major Reich agencies. The conference did not decide to murder the Jews — that dec...

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Wannsee Villa, Berlin (Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58)

Reinhard Heydrich chairs the 90-minute meeting at this lakeside villa. Fifteen men in suits determine the fate of eleven million European Jews — the minutes ...

The 2022 German film reconstructs the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 almost entirely from the surviving Wannsee Protocol. It differs from 2001's Conspiracy in tone — sharper, more legalistic, equally chilling.

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Sobibor extermination camp, Poland

Sobibor is among the Operation Reinhard camps already operational or being built as the conference convenes. The bureaucrats at Wannsee discuss jurisdictions...

Operation Reinhard (Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka) murdered approximately 1.7 million Jews between 1942 and 1943. Sobibor alone killed 170,000–250,000 people. The Wannsee Protocol was the administrative architecture enab...

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