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The Wannsee Conference (Part 2) (4/25/25)
The Wannsee Conference was a high-level meeting of Nazi officials held on January 20, 1942, at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. Convened by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the conference brought together senior representatives from various Nazi government ministries and agencies to coordinate the implementation of the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The goal was to streamline and organize the systematic extermination of Europe’s Jewish population. Though mass killings of Jews were already underway, this meeting formally unified the bureaucratic efforts behind the genocide, solidifying a state-sponsored plan for industrialized murder across occupied Europe.
At the conference, Heydrich outlined that approximately 11 million Jews across the continent—including those in neutral countries—were to be targeted. The officials present discussed logistical, legal, and administrative issues surrounding deportation, forced labor, and eventual extermination. Notably, the minutes of the meeting, known as the Wannsee Protocol, were couched in euphemisms but made clear the genocidal intent. The conference didn’t initiate the Holocaust but marked a turning point in its organization, revealing how genocide was transformed into an administrative, bureaucratic operation carried out with chilling efficiency.
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