Comments by "Crotchet" (@quaver1239) on "Goebbels: Master of Propaganda Documentary" video.

Thank you for this. Surprisingly, it contains at least two inaccuracies, and I don’t say this lightly. First: It was not at the Wannsee meeting that the decision was made to annihilate the Jewish people of Europe. The decision was made well prior to this meeting. (You stated this correctly in your documentary about Reinhard Heydrich.) At the Wannsee conference on 20 January 1942, plans for the “Final Solution” were co-ordinated. The 15 participants in the conference simply made fairly specific plans for the deportation and killing of Jews. It is a pity that you had this correctly in another documentary, and yet incorrectly in this one. Second: Somewhere between 46 and 50 minutes into this documentary the narrator said that Hitler was “holed up in a wartime bunker in Poland.” This is not so. Where this information could have been found, I have no idea. It is simply inaccurate. Hitler was certainly holed up in his Berlin bunker and sometimes at the “Wolf’s Lair”, but never in Poland. Having these documentaries available to us is a great gift - but not if there are inaccuracies. Please remember that amongst the people who watch your videos there are bound to be a number who have spent their entire lives as scholars of the Shoah.
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