Talk:The Wannsee Conference (film)

Is this really a war film?
The stub note says that this is a war film. I haven't seen the film myself, but from descriptions of it, I doubt that it falls neatly into this category. The film depicts events that took place in time of war, but the 'final solution' was something separate from the war effort, and did not positively contribute to it, and may have taken considerable resources away from it. (A film about William Beveridge and the events leading to the foundation of the British National Health Service would be in a similar position.) The characters may have worn uniforms, but the RSHA was not the army, it was something like the police or the KGB. The 'final solution' could be described as a 'war on Jews', but no matter how horrible the mass extermination was, it does not precisely fit with the paradigm case of 'war' and the use of 'war' here could be considered to be metaphorical, as war on poverty is metaphorical. See war. --Publunch (talk) 20:55, 17 October 2008 (UTC)