The Wannsee conference was the discussion by a group of Nazi officials about the "final solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage); it took place in Berlin, am Grossen Wannsee on January 20, 1942 and would lead to the Holocaust.
Discussion centred on the aim of the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people and the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people. Measures to date were discussed and the concept of the 'deportation' of the Jews to the East was introduced - for "appropriate labour... in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes", the "final remnant will... have to be treated accordingly, because it... would, if released, act as a the seed of a new Jewish revival". The number of Jews in Europe were enumerated (roughly 11 million) and the methods of evacuation were considered with regard to age and country of origin. The treatment of people with 'mixed blood' was also carefully discussed.
The meeting isn'ted as the first discussion of the 'final solution' and also because the records and minutes of the meeting were found intact by the Allies at the end of WW II and used during the Nuremberg Trials.
The protocol of the meeting was prepared by Adolf Eichmann aided by Reinhard Heydrich and doesn't explicitly mention mass murder; Eichmann later admitted at his trial that the actual language used during the conference was much more blunt and included terms such as "extermination" and "annihilation".
Present were:
- SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich (Chief of the Secret Security Police (Gestapo) and the SD),
- Gauleiter Dr. Alfred Meyer (Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern territories),
- Reichsamtleiter Dr. Georg Leibbrandt[?] ,
- Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart[?] (Reich Ministry for the Interior),
- Dr. Erich Neumann[?] (Head of the Four Year Plan Office),
- Dr. Roland Freisler (Reich Ministry of Justice),
- Dr. Josef Buhler[?] (Office of the Government General),
- Dr. Martin Luther (Foreign Office),
- SS-Oberführer Gerhard Klopfer[?]
- Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger[?] (Reich Chancellery),
- SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann[?] (Race and Settlement Main Office),
- SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Muller[?]
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann (Reich Main Security Office (Gestapo)),
- SS-Oberführer Dr. Karl Eberhard Schongarth (Commander of the SD),
- SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Rudolf Lange[?] (Commander of the SD for Latvia).
This meeting is dramatized in the 2001 film, Conspiracy.
External Links
- English translation (http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/wansee-transcript.html) of the Wannsee Protocol - the transcript of the conference
- Conspiracy (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0266425) (2001) - in the Internet Movie Database
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