Wannsee Conference

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The villa at 56–58 Am Großen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held, now a memorial and museum

The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question". In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects. Instead, as Soviet and Allied forces gradually pushed back the German lines, most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe were sent to extermination or concentration camps, or killed where they lived. As a result of the efforts of historian Joseph Wulf, the Wannsee House, where the conference was held, is now a Holocaust Memorial.

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The Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference
www1.yadvashem.org/.../wannsee_conference.asp?WT.mc_id=wiki - Web

House of the Wannsee Conference: Memorial and Educ...
House of the Wannsee Conference: Memorial and Educational Site
www.ghwk.de/engl/kopfengl.htm - Web

Facsimile pages of the Wannsee Protocol
Facsimile pages of the Wannsee Protocol
www.ghwk.de/deut/proto.htm - Web

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