The Berlin lakeside villa where the Nazis planned the Holocaust

[turbinetree]

By DPA
Published February 21, 2022

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In summer, Deborah Hartmann hears the lifeguard's announcements at the Wannsee lido from her desk. In winter, there are only the crows above the rippling waves.

"It is the ambivalence of this place, unbelievably beautiful and unbelievably tragic," says Hartmann who runs the House of the Wannsee Conference.

"It's really confusing."

https://www.rawstory.com/the-berlin-lakeside-villa-where-the-nazis-planned-the-holocaust/

And just think in 2022 there are many villas in the world planning the same today....and there are some people that say history should not be mentioned....

[CurtEastPoint]

1. isn't this where little Maddie Cawthorn jizzed?

[Jedi Guy]

6. Pretty sure that was the Eagle's Nest.

As I recall, he made sure to mention that "the Fuhrer" spent time there. Not "Hitler." Not "that genocidal madman." Not "that murderous bastard." Nope, he made sure to call him "the Fuhrer." Very subtle stuff.

[Irish_Dem]

2. One reason the GOP doesn't want history to be taught.

And why it cannot be mentioned.

We would immediately understand what is happening to us.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. See 'Conspiracy' if you can

Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci and many more excellent actors - taken from the official notes, and then with the bits they decided were too incriminating to be recorded reconstructed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_%282001_film%29

[Ohio Joe]

4. I just watched this...

And was going to post about it... Great movie, very chilling.

[sarisataka]

5. I just found this movie this weekend

It went immediately into my watch list

[Torchlight]

7. It's a weird thing to watch those guys go so matter-of-factly about

something so consequential and remorseless as engineering an entire holocaust. It's watching a business meeting we've all been a part of many times, but with a totally different soundtrack of dialog being run concurrently.

I think that's one of the reasons the film is so damned gripping. And really places the following quote by CS Lewis in a more relatable context.

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."