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On January 20, 1942, Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" which aimed to deport and murder most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe.
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The meeting, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, was attended by representatives from several government ministries and the SS.
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The purpose of the conference was to ensure the co-operation of administrative leaders in the implementation of the Final Solution.
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The Wannsee Conference (German: Wannseekonferenz, German pronunciation: [ˈvanzeːkɔnfeˌʁɛnt͡s] (listen)) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference, called by the director of the Reich Security Main Office SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, was to ensure the co-operation of administrative leaders of various government departments in the implementation of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to occupied Poland and murdered. Conference participants included representatives from several government ministries, including state secretaries from the Foreign Office, the justice, interior, and state ministries, and representatives from the SS. In the course of the meeting, Heydrich outlined how European Jews would be rounded up and sent to extermination camps in the General Government (the occupied part of Poland), where they would be killed.
Wannsee Conference - Wikipedia
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The long-planned conference had been a success. Described in a later summary (that came to be known as the Wannsee Protocol) as a “Conference on the Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” the gathering of dignitaries of the Nazi Party and German government had only just dispersed.
Coordinating the Destruction of an Entire People: The Wannsee Conference
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On January 20, 1942, a meeting was held in Wannsee (a suburb of Berlin), chaired by Reinhard Heydrich with the participation of 15 officials and representatives of the Reich authorities.
The Wannsee Conference - Yad Vashem
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The Wannsee Conference formalised the Nazis’ policy of the extermination of Jews in occupied Europe. On 20 January 1942, leading Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference Villa in Wannsee, …
The Wannsee Conference, 1942 - The Holocaust Explained
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Wannsee Conference Final Solution Nazi Party Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), convenes the Wannsee Conferencein a villa outside Berlin. At this conference , he presents plans…
Wannsee Conference | Holocaust Encyclopedia
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