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In 1942, leading figures in the Nazi government and SS meet here to discuss their so-called Final Solution to the Jewish Question. The exhibition in the House of the Wannsee Conference gives an insight into this criminal meeting, and how the plan was put into practice.
On 20 January 1942, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the SS, the Nazi Party and various ministries gathered in a villa on Wannsee Lake to discuss and coordinate the deportation and murder of the Jews of Europe. Today, the house – which was built in 1915 and used as a SS guest house from 1941–1945 – is a memorial known as the House ...
The Wannsee Conference ( German: Wannseekonferenz, German pronunciation: [ˈvanzeːkɔnfeˌʁɛnt͡s] ⓘ) 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 ...
House of the Wannsee Conference - a memorial and educational site. In today's Memorial and Educational Site, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the SS, the NSDAP and various Reich ministries discuss their cooperation in the planned deportation and murder of the European Jews on January 20, 1942. In addition to its exhibitions, the Memorial ...
Wannsee House and the Holocaust by Steven Lehrer tells the story of the elegant suburban Berlin villa where the Wannsee Conference took place on January 20, 1942. At that meeting, Reinhard Heydrich announced the plans for the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory.
It was in a room in this magnificent Villa that a group of high-ranking Nazi officials headed by Reinhard Heydrich, Head of Reich Security met on January 20, 1942 to organise and implement the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
May 14, 2024 · Wannsee Conference, meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the ‘final solution’ to the so-called ‘Jewish question.’. It was attended by 15 Nazi bureaucrats including Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann.
