Let's Conspire to See this Movie

Few things are tougher viewing than films about the Holocaust. Those types of movies are silent, somber cinema, leaving trembling hands and downcast eyes when the lights come up…rendering us unable to reconcile what we just saw with what we think we know about people. As hard as it is...

By Jennifer Davis-Lamm

May 7, 2015

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Few things are tougher viewing than films about the Holocaust. Those types of movies are silent, somber cinema, leaving trembling hands and downcast eyes when the lights come up…rendering us unable to reconcile what we just saw with what we think we know about people. As hard as it is to sit through, the films have value because we need to honor the victims, to question humanity, to question the way we think about equality and prejudice, and to understand that this happened. The Dallas Holocaust Museum has made all of these things part of its mission, and in furthering that, occasionally presents films about that most awful of subjects. Conspiracy is one such film, dramatizing the events of the Wannsee Conference, where German officials not only became aware that the Nazis were planning the mass extermination of Jews—but went along with their plans, either because they wanted to, or because they were afraid to speak out against it. It’s a perfect illustration of the old saying that “evil prospers when good men do nothing”—and it’s a chilling reminder that we each have a duty to ensure that such a thing is never allowed to happen again. The screening is at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 7 in the Dallas Holocaust Museum, 211 North Record; admission is free. See dallasholocaustmuseum.org.
Thu., May 7, 5:30 p.m., 2015

Jennifer Davis-Lamm

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