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Fatherland

  • 25-08-2010 9:53pm
    #1
    endakenny
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    In 1999, I watched the film "Fatherland", based on the Robert Harris alternative history novel, on RTÉ 1 and watched it again on You Tube last week. An SS detective and an American journalist find out that attendees of the Wannsee Conference have been murdered to cover up the Holocaust before President Joseph Kennedy, JFK's dad, visits Nazi Germany. In this scenario, there would be no need to murder the Holocaust participants because, for example, if Josef Buehler, whose murder the story begins with, had revealed the truth, then he would be exposing himself to prosecution for his part in the Holocaust as well as bringing down the Reich.


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  • #2
    marcsignal
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    and ?


  • #3
    tac foley
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    Read also 'SS GB'.

    A VERY good read, IMO, by the same author.

    tac


  • #4
    Prefab Sprouter
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    Tac,

    I could be wrong but was SS:GB not written by Len Deighton?


    Enjoyed Fatherland the book, didnt enjoy the movie that much.


  • #5
    tac foley
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    Prefab Sprouter wrote: »
    Tac, I could be wrong but was SS:GB not written by Len Deighton?

    Enjoyed Fatherland the book, didnt enjoy the movie that much.



    Yup. You are correct.

    The coconut is yours,

    tac


  • #6
    endakenny
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    marcsignal wrote: »
    and ?
    My point is that the idea of a participant of the Wannsee Conference revealing the truth doesn't make sense. What would make Hitler think that the participants would have revealed the truth?


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  • #7
    PeterIanStaker
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    But the Third Reich is/was so paranoid that it sought to tie up the loose ends, i.e. the Wansee attendees permanently. If Xavier March hadn't been so dogged or in the right place at the wrong time, nothing would have come to light. Its a plot device to ensure the protagonist starts sniffing around where he shouldn't.


  • #8
    marcsignal
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    endakenny wrote: »
    My point is that the idea of a participant of the Wannsee Conference revealing the truth doesn't make sense. What would make Hitler think that the participants would have revealed the truth?

    ah, sorry i didn't pick up on that first time around. I dunno if it would have been so unusual. The regime was quick to turn on anyone who got up to any kind of shenanigans pertaining to disloyalty. There were others involved in Wansee that wern't at all happy to be mixed up in the whole affair.

    Friedrich Kritzinger for example, is believed to have openly objected to the Wannsee plan, suspecting the true fate of its victims, and imo he would have been a likely candidate for whistle blowing. Also, Wilhelm Stuckart who wrote the Nuremberg Laws wasn't at all pleased the way Heydrich was pressuring the participants into co-operating, using subtle intimidatory tactics.

    edit* Read the book and saw the film, but much prefered the book.

    .


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