This story discusses a meeting scene from the first episode of Andor Season two.
A key scene in the Andor The first in season two has a real inspiration in the history of the Second World War.
About 20 minutes after the start of the first episode, there is a secret imperial meeting led by director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelson) on a snowy mountain complex. There, he traces the takeover and potential destruction of the peaceful planet producing textiles from the Ghorman planet with a limited group of high -command officers. It is a scene that is of major importance for the final scene of the Disney +show, which leads to the creation of the death star.
“No notes, no files, none of you were here, nobody puts this in their calendar,” warns Krennic the group. “You are colleagues, superiors, if they are not in this room, they are not allowed for the project. The group in this room is the tightest of closed circles.”
Andor Creator Tony Gilroy tells The Hollywood Reporter That the scene is like when the third Reich plotted its final solution at the Wannsee conference in 1942, where 15 members of the German high order secretly drawn the extermination of millions of Jews. “The very first scene that Krennic has where he talks about Ghorman, which is based on the Wannsee Convention – the Nazi Convention where the Nazis met and planned the final solution on a business lunch.”
Visually, the location of the meeting does not look like the Berlin suburbs where the Wannsee conference took place. However, the location of the snowy mountain summit is surprisingly like the combination of two famous monuments of the third Reich: The Eagle’s Nest, the famous retreat of the Hilter hill in the Bavarian Alps, where the high command has made many key decisions (and was represented in a memorable way in Hbo’s, where Bunch of brothers). The location also resembles the Château de Hohenwerfen in Austria, which was another snowy outpost managed by the Nazis during the war.
Here is the imperial outpost of the Maltheen division in the Andor First:
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Here is the eagle nest:
The tea house (teehaus) in Kehlstein Mountain in the Bavarian Alps, formerly Adolf Hitler’s Mountain Retreat.
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And here is Hohenwerfen’s castle:
Hohenwerfen castle
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The Galactic Empire of Star Wars was (rather not so subtly) inspired by Nazi Germany and other fascist dictatorships. The Nazis also had “Stormtroopers” (Sturmabteilung), the Dark Vader helmet has echoes of helmets worn by Wehrmacht officers, Hitler went from the chancellor to Germany to the dictator (shortly to Palpatine going from Chancell A new hopeSpatial combat scenes.
Andor is the famous Disney +dramatic series, which follows the adventures of the leader of the Rebel Alliance Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and leads to the events of the film Snape One. The second season of 12 episodes will be published in three episode blocks in the next four weeks.
