Today each of us becomes a bearer of secrets. ibid. Heydrich
So to begin: we have a storage problem in Germany with these Jews. ibid.
Reichsmarschall Goering prepared a Directive ... I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations in regard to organisational and financial matters for bringing about a complete solution of the Jewish question. ibid.
Conspirator: Do they even have a Hell?
Heydrich: They do now. We provide it. ibid.
We do not just surrender our prerogative to decide Jew questions. ibid. Klopfer
No Jews. Not one. ibid. Heydrich
Let us have some refreshment in here and pretend we are the directors of I G Farben. ibid.
If there are decent Jews ... First degree exempted will be sterilised; no more children and eventually no more mixed blood once and for all. ibid.
For perspective – we have already been using sterilisation for mentally defectives since 1939 in our T-4 programme. ibid. Eichmann
Death is the most reliable form of sterilisation. ibid. Heydrich
Deal with the reality of the Jew and the world will applaud us. ibid. Stuckart
There are no shortages of meat hooks on which to hang enemies of the state. ibid. Heydrich to Stuckart
We will now discuss method – who would like to speak on this? ibid.
Mass shootings by our groups create moral problems. Especially when the Jew is a German Jew. ibid. conspirator
Using gas is much cheaper and less public. ibid. Heydrich
We have three camps where permanent gas chambers will be operational. ibid. Heydrich
Sixty thousand Jews a day every day go up in smoke. ibid. conspirator
You certainly know how to throw a party. ibid. Klopfer to Eichmann
Colonel Eichmann carefully edited the stenographic record of the conference. Copies were distributed to the participants to be read and then destroyed. General Heydrich flew back to his headquarters in Czechoslovakia, where in a few terrible weeks he had earned the nickname the Butcher of Prague. ibid. commentary
Martin Luther’s copy of the Wannsee Conference minutes was discovered in the files of the German Foreign Office by American investigators in 1947. It is the only record of the meeting that survives. ibid. caption
I think I’m a tad depressed. This Must be the Place 2011 starring Sean Penn & Frances McDormand & Judd Hirsch & Eve Hewson & Kerry Condon & Harry Dean Stanton & Joyce van Patten & David Byrne & Olwen Fouere et al, director Paolo Sorrentinol, Penn
That pistol there lets you shoot and kill with precision from two hundred and fifty feet. And it doesn’t just give you the satisfaction of killing. It lets you kill with impunity which is a whole different ball game. Believe me, it’s an extraordinary thing to kill with impunity. A rare shift in perspective, you know. Human beings’ life story. If we’re licensed to be monsters we end up having just one desire – to truly be monsters. ibid.
[boy on dog-n-bone]: Mr Lieberman, I sent you a package with some photos. I’ve been monitoring the activities of a group of Nazis, and I’ve identified several of them as Nazis ... I work alone. Like you, Mr Lieberman. The Boys From Brazil 1978 starring Laurence Olivier & Gregory Peck & James Mason & Lilli Palmer & Uta Hagen & Steve Guttenberg & Denholm Elliott & Rosemary Harris & John Dehner & John Rubinstein et al, director Franklin J Schaffner
Your success in this project carries with it the hope and destiny of an Aryan race. ibid. Mengele
I do not want a trace of this vermin to remain. ibid.
In this God-forsaken place I have created a scientific miracle. ibid.
The outlaw. The so-called war criminal. Right here. ibid.
I have turned the whole world into a laboratory. ibid.
Men, I am a scientist. I have done my job. ibid.
Ninety-three little boys are exact genetic duplicators of him. ibid.
He was thrilled by the idea of the right Hitler for the right future. ibid. attribute
It has been twenty years since the Second World War ended with the failure of the Allied invasion at Normandy. Fatherland 1994 starring Rutger Hauer & Miranda Richardson & Peter Vaughn & Michael Kitchen & Jean Marsh & John Woodbine & John Shrapnel & Clive Russell & Clare Higgins et al, director Christopher Menaul
King Edward and Queen Wallis assumed the British throne. ibid.
The vast Nazi empire of Germania. ibid.
We shipped them east. Always east. ibid. German woman
We needed those six million bullets we’d saved. ibid.
I am a loyal son of the Fatherland. ibid. March
Had aided and abetted the Third Reich... President Bush’s own father, Prescott Bush. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States IX: Bush and Clinton – American Triumphalism – New World Order, Showtime 2012
Henry Ford’s German subsidiary manufactured an arsenal of military vehicles through the war. ibid.
Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland: J P Morgan Bank, Chase Bank, Union Bank and BIS were the four dominant banks who succeeded in obfuscating their collaboration with the Nazis. ibid.
An ideology synonymous with evil. One that promotes fear and hatred. They hero-worship Adolf Hitler. But just how powerful are America’s neo-Nazis? America’s Book of Secrets s2e5: American Nazis, History 2013
There are nearly 200 neo-Nazi groups currently operating in the United States. ibid.
One of the Third Reich’s most shadowy projects – the hunt to discover the lost Aryan civilisation from which the Nazis believed they had descended. Nazi Quest for the Holy Grail, Channel 5 2013
Adolf Hitler purged art he hated, and he stole art he coveted. The Rape of Europa 1, PBS 2008
Lost art is still being found; battle damage is still being repaired, and stolen masterpieces are still caught up in bitter disputes. ibid.
Art continued to obsess him, and became part of his political agenda. ibid.
Organised looting of Jewish property began on a massive scale. ibid.
Today, the struggle over Adele Bloch-Bauer’s portrait is only one of many such disputes still unresolved. ibid.
Sixty years after the war, a panel of Austrian judges awarded to Maria Altmann and her family the five paintings by Gustav Klimt, including the portrait of her aunt. ibid.
Along with looting, the Nazis unleashed a modern war that destroyed historic European architecture. The Rape of Europa II, PBS
The Roberts Commission warned President Roosevelt of a grave problem facing the Allied armies: how to save Europe without further destroying its historic buildings and cultural treasures. ibid.
Rome’s people and ancient monuments were spared. ibid.
Daily, the Monuments Men were rescuing thousands of vulnerable art works. ibid.
63,872. Three staggering hoards of stolen art. ibid.
They were shot against the wall of the cave. Buried with dynamite. We found the bodies of fifty. They were French. Cornered 1945 starring Dick Powell & Walter Slezak & Micheline Cheirel & Nina Vale & Morris Carnovsky & Edgard Barrier & Steven Geray & Jack LaRue & Gregory Gay et al, director Edward Dmytryk, Frenchman to Powell
Germany, November 2013: The world is stunned as more than 1,500 lost artworks seized by the Nazis are found safe in a small run-down apartment in Munich. Hunting Hitler’s Stolen Treasure, National Geographic 2014
The story of the Monuments Men – a group of art experts who in the last years of the war set out to solve the greatest art theft in history. ibid.
The return of 5,000,000 objects. ibid.
As many as 200,000 masterpieces remain missing. ibid.