The wannsee conference in the development of the final solution pdf. Protocol of the wannsee conference, january 20, 1942. Click for english translation of the so called wannsee protokoll click for a different translation. The following took part in the conference on the final solution endloesung of the jewish question held on january 20, 1942, in berlin, am grossen wannsee no. Meeting held at a lakeside villa in wannsee, berlin, on january 20, 1942, whose purpose was to discuss and coordinate the final. In 1983 the wdr west german radio broadcast kempners original taped statement, according to which he had discovered the protocol in autumn of 1947. Introduction the participants the men of the wannsee conference. The mobile killing squads were already slaughtering jews in the occupied soviet union. It was attended by 15 nazi bureaucrats including reinhard heydrich and adolf eichmann.
At noon, 15 men who had accepted an invitation from reinhard heydrich, head of the feared reich main security office rsha, met in an extravagant industrialists villa in the posh suburb of wannsee. On one hand, the total deportation and annihilation in camps in the occupied soviet areas roadbuilding being synonymous with forced labor under inadequate living conditions were still being adhered to as originally intended and as already initiated in some places. Who were the 15 men who attended the meeting, and what connected them. It was held in berlin at a wannsee villa used by the reich security main office as a guest house and conference center. In 1983 the wdr west german radio broadcast kempners original taped statement, according to which he had discovered the protocol in. The minutes from the wannsee conference january 20, 1942. Percy spilberg on wannsee and the hitler order for the holocaust ramanujan still argues that the conference did discuss killing the jews frank lowe points to the involvement of dr robert.
The following took part in the conference on the final solution endloesung of the jewish question. Ssobergruppenfuhrer reinhard heydrich chief of the rsha and reichsprotektor of. The wannsee conference did not mark the beginning of the final solution. The subject at hand was the transcript of the notorious wannsee conference. Pdf the participants of the wannsee conference introduction by. Introduction to the book about the men who attended the wannsee conference just published by berghahn books. On january 20, 1942, an infamous meeting of highranking members of the ss took place in berlin wannsee. Among these papers, he and his colleagues discovered a transcript of the wannsee conference. Hitler had made his views to exterminate the jews known in 1942. This english text of the original germanlanguage wannsee protocol is based on the official u. The meeting or conference as it came to be known, was organized by adolf eichmann sssturmbannfyhrer, at the order of reinhard heydrich, chief of the.
The author of the protocol, it was claimed, was eichmann. Wannseekonferenz was a meeting of senior government. The wannsee conference january 20, 1942 list of participants ssobergruppenfuhrer reinhard heydrich chief of the rsha and reichsprotektor of bohemiamoravia, presiding dr josef buhler government of the general government, representing hans frank dr roland freisler reich ministry of justice, state. The participants of the wannsee conference introduction by. Rather, the wannsee conference was the place where the final solution was formally revealed to nonnazi leaders who would help arrange for jews to be transported from all over germanoccupied europe to ssoperated extermination. At the time of the wannsee conference, 500,000 jews, including women and children had been murdered, primarily by firing squad. Wannsee conference, meeting of nazi officials on january 20, 1942, in the berlin suburb of wannsee to plan the final solution to the socalled jewish question. The purpose of the conference, called by the director of the reich main security office ssobergruppenfuhrer reinhard heydrich, was to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders of various.
Full text of the wannsee conference in the development of. On 20 january 1942, fifteen senior german officials met at a villa. Leibbrandtreich ministry for the occupied eastern territoriessecretary of state dr. The discussion and the sheer coldheartedness of the measures examined to exterminate jews in europe detailed at the wannsee conference on january 20, 1942. The wannsee minutes as snapshot of a moment in a transition stage the wannsee conference marked a watershed. Learn more about the wannsee conference in this article. Ss obergruppenfuhrer reinhard heydrich chief of the rsha and reichsprotektor of. Reich secret document30 copiesprotocol of conferencei. Wannseekonferenz 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. Rather, the wannsee conference was the place where the final solution was formally revealed to nonnazi leaders who would help arrange for jews to be transported from all over german. The wannsee conference was a highlevel meeting of nazi officials that took place in berlin on january 20, 1942, to discuss the final solution of the jewish.
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