SS men refuse to carry out Final Solution

I would argue that Conspiracy invents or exaggerates the objections in order to demonstrate how hypocritical it was to disenfranchise and sequester the Reich's undesirables just short of murdering them and to complain about the moral depravity of genocide, as demonstrated by the talk between Heydrich and Kirtzinger towards the end of the movie.

Yeah. The "good Nazi" in the film talks about having shot twenty thousand Jews already; his concern is what the industrialisation of murder will do to to the health of the perpetrators.
 
Yeah. The "good Nazi" in the film talks about having shot twenty thousand Jews already; his concern is what the industrialisation of murder will do to to the health of the perpetrators.

Or when Stuckart argued that mass sterilization would be far less burdensome to the bureaucratic legal system than mass death.
 
Yeah. The "good Nazi" in the film talks about having shot twenty thousand Jews already; his concern is what the industrialisation of murder will do to to the health of the perpetrators.
Rudolf Lange was a notorious anti-Semite and was about as violent as a person could get. From what I understand his objections were exaggerated for the film, and that in real life he wasn't really concerned about it.
Or when Stuckart argued that mass sterilization would be far less burdensome to the bureaucratic legal system than mass death.
Stuckart was a real piece of work. Not only did he help write the Nuremburg Laws, he had his one year old son (who suffered from Down Syndrome) exterminated as part of the child euthanasia program.
 
Rudolf Lange was a notorious anti-Semite and was about as violent as a person could get. From what I understand his objections were exaggerated for the film, and that in real life he wasn't really concerned about it.

I agree- I'm just seconding the point that I think the filmmakers were playing with the facts as a deliberate choice, not casual ignorance or simplification.
 

TinyTartar

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There was talk in late 1944 of scaling back the resources on killing the Jews and trying to support the war effort more.

The rank and file of the SS was by this point so rabidly anti Semitic, on a level that their own leadership likely wasn't, that this was not even considered.
 
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