The Wannsee Conference: How the Holocaust Was Organized | Free Documentary History

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On January 20, 1942, in the quiet surroundings of the Wannsee Villa, a meeting took place that would forever alter the course of history. The gathering, lasting just under 90 minutes, was attended by senior Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann, who would later recall the atmosphere as unusually relaxed and even cheerful. The discussion that day was centered on the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," a euphemism for the systematic plan to annihilate the Jewish population of Europe. This was not a casual conversation but a cold, calculated planning session for mass murder.

The plan involved the deportation, enslavement, and eventual extermination of approximately 11 million people—Jews, Roma, disabled individuals, and others considered "undesirable" by the Nazi regime. The scale of the atrocity was staggering, as the Nazis aimed to rid Europe of its Jewish population through methods that ranged from mass shootings to the construction of death camps. The meeting at Wannsee was pivotal because it marked the transition from the earlier, more ad hoc violence to the coordinated, bureaucratic machinery of genocide.

Eichmann himself, as the primary organizer of the logistics behind the mass deportations, was a key figure in this tragic chapter of history. His later attempts to downplay the significance of the meeting and his role in it underscore the chilling nature of the Wannsee Conference.

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