Conspiracy Sparknotes

The HBO film, Conspiracy, is based on an actual meeting between various leaders who discussed their plan for the Holocaust. The meeting is known as the Wannsee conference of 1942. The film was based on a transcript. Throughout the film, the leaders go through moral developments, and the actors portray these leaders going through these revelations of character. One of the most influential people at this meeting was the tyrannical, Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. Throughout the film, he came to be known as this famous Nazi, but he becomes even more ignorant, tyrannical, and immoral throughout the meeting. At the very end of the film, he portrays himself as an intelligent man who even thinks about what they may have to do after exterminating all

The only development he had as a character was about how his reputation could be ruined. He was not concerned with the Jewish people, their rights, or their purposes in society. The only time he showed concern for the Jews was when it could affect his life or reputation as a leader. The moral purpose he served was to polarize the other Nazi leaders into becoming more hateful and oppressive. Over time, the viewer observed that most of the leaders started to become more and more racist throughout the meeting. To the people against any part of the Nazi ideology, Heydrich made it known that there are easy fixes to their problems. He often interrupted people, spoke over others, and put his superiority complex on full display. Heydrich displayed a very annoyed, aggressive tone when someone thought differently from him. The last thing the conference put into action was the plan to make a concentration camp where they could kill a larger sum of Jews than ever before. He even shows some excitement towards this idea, demonstrating that he is an evil person whose main focus is persecuting a group of people. In the film, he served as the antagonist/villain that represented the Nazi regime. He shows very obvious parallels to a devilish, self-centered

Heydrich is a very self-centered person that thinks he is more important, smatter, and powerful than the other people in the conference. He often used jargon and other phrases to diminish or distract the other leaders present. Screwtape wants Wormwood to confuse the patient and is very similar to Heydrich trying to diminish others’ ideas and lead them to a satanic view of the Jewish race. Another comparison between the two characters is that Heydrich and Screwtape both believe in using a bad relationship between two people to their advantage. Heydrich wanted to use the deteriorating relationships between the Jewish race and the rest of the world to his advantage, similar to Wordwood exploiting the relationship between his patient and his