Conspiracy

In a year of high-profile Holocaust dramas (ABC's Anne Frank, NBC's Uprising), an understated movie about a meeting in which Hitler's lieutenants planned the Final Solution outdid them all. Not a shot was fired, but the cool bureaucratese with which these officials rationalized mass murder showed how language can be humankind's most insidious weapon.

(HBO)

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