Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

Rod Culbertson: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : Adolph Hitler invaded Poland in September, 1939, 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 Thousand-Year Reich.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : Col. Eichmann carefully edited the stenographic record of the conference. Copies were distributed to the participants to be read and then destroyed.

  Narrator : General 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.

  Narrator : 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.