I'm watching a Netflix series title Auschwitz, The Nazis & The Final Solution

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23. You need to watch Kenneth Branagh's brilliant and absolutely chilling portrayal of

Reinhard Heydrich in the film Conspiracy. The first time I watched it I couldn't quite get my head around it. I had to repeat.

It is a faithful depiction of the fateful final solution meeting held in this house in Wannsee in late 1942. Branagh, of course, is brilliant - he's an excellent actor. But some other notables also star in the film:

Kenneth Branagh as SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
Stanley Tucci as SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann
Colin Firth as SS-Brigadeführer Dr Wilhelm Stuckart
Ian McNeice as SS-Oberführer Dr Gerhard Klopfer
Kevin McNally as Martin Luther
David Threlfall as Ministerialdirektor Dr Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
Ewan Stewart as Dr Georg Leibbrandt
Brian Pettifer as Gauleiter Dr Alfred Meyer
Nicholas Woodeson as SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann
Jonathan Coy as SS-Sturmbannführer Erich Neumann
Brendan Coyle as SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller
Ben Daniels as Dr Josef Bühler
Barnaby Kay as SS-Sturmbannführer Dr Rudolf Lange
Owen Teale as Dr Roland Freisler
Peter Sullivan as SS-Oberführer Dr Karl Eberhard Schöngarth

Something else - there is a minimal script - the movie is based on one surviving copy of the actual minutes.

Like Schindler's List, this movie is a favorite, simply because I'm a big believer in never forgetting the Holocaust. Ever. Now, Schindler's List is notable to me because here we have Oskar Schindler, a mediocre ex-motorcycle racer who is forced by his own conscience to save 1,200 Jews - they lived because of Schindler because Plascow had become a death camp by the end and the survivors were shipped by train to Auschwitz as the Russian Army advanced.

Conspiracy is also a study in human character - the darker side of it. It is the consequence of a failure by these men, by this whole nation, to listen to their conscience. I won't spoil it for you in case you watch it, but listen carefully for Heydrich (Branagh) teasing Eichmann (Tucci) about his 'symptoms.' Conspiracy clearly shows the darkness of these soulless men who so arrogantly decided the fate of six million human beings.

I watch these movies regularly because every time I do it steels me to continue the resistance against Trump and his fascists.