The Conference — 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 machinery of mass murder.
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 decision had already been taken — but coordinated the bureaucratic and logistical machinery to do it systematically. The original minutes were discovered in 1947.