The Weathermen’s plans included putting parts of United States under the administration of Cuba, North Vietnam, China and Russia and re-educating the uncooperative in camps in located in the Southwest. Since there would be holdouts, plans were made for liquidating the estimated 25 million unreconstructable die-hards.

The most interesting moment of the video comes when Grathwohl asks the viewer to imagine what it’s like to be in a room with 25 people, all of whom have master’s degrees or higher from elite institutions of higher learning like Columbia, listening to them discuss the logistics of killing 25 million Americans.

Richard, these two paragraphs remind me of a movie called “Conspiracy” about the Wannsee Conference, in which Stanley Tucci plays Adolf Eichmann and Kenneht Branagh plays Reinhard Heydrich.

Fine wines, discussions of Wagner’s style of composing, sumptuous food, elegant crystal, placards and silverware…all to discuss how to exterminate a race of people.

One can easily imagine the Ivy League cottage replacing the lakeside Berlin suburban villa, while a group of cultured voices discuss the “American” question. And the final solution.

It would not be nearly as chilling, nor in my opinion as effective…if Branagh had played Heydrich as loud, raging and bombastic. It was far more frightening to watch the methodical, cool, composed, and unflappable exterior…slowly reveal the inner demon.

I suppose the unasked question by Gratwohl, is what if an American Mossad-like group came and asked you to assist, would you give up your present life and enlist? Would you be one of the 25 million who were part of the die-hard resistance? Or would you fall in line, in order to stay alive? Tough questions.