Wannsee konferansen

On the outside of Ellinor's house, we see the contrast to Ellinor's story. 15 Nazi leaders gathered in the suburb of Wannsee outside Berlin in January 1942 to discuss "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question." The meeting is known as the Wannsee Conference and is considered perhaps the greatest crime in human history. In this meeting, they reached the solution to use gas chambers and industrialize and streamline a massive genocide. The final solution they arrived at took the lives of over 6 million people. The painting is inspired by the famous painting «Hipp hipp hurra»", or "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" by Peder Severin Krøyer. A bright and beautiful motif used as a paraphrase to tell a completely different story. In the top right corner, we see a man with a red armband, Adolf Eichmann, logistics manager for the Holocaust. During his trial in 1963, a German philosopher named Hannah Arendt was present. She described Eichmann as an exceptionally ordinary person, someone who performed regular bureaucratic tasks, but with fatal consequences. She could not see the evil in his person despite the consequences of his actions. She coined the term "the banality of evil" to describe the cruelty behind something that appears normal. In The Rose Castle, the most grotesque paintings are painted behind a beautiful facade. The artists call it the "Arendtian approach," inspired by the philosopher Hannah Arendt and "the banality of evil."