The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that
paved the way for the Holocaust. On 20 January 1942, fifteen men
arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the
Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the
invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking
Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. The exquisite position by
the lake, the imposing driveway up to the villa, culminating in a
generously sized roundabout in front of the house, the expansive,
carefully landscaped park, the generous suite of rooms that opened
on to the park and the lake, the three-level terrace that stretched
the entire garden side of the house, and the winter garden with its
marble fountain, all give today's visitor to the villa a good idea
of its owner's aspiration to build a sophisticated, almost palatial
structure as a testament to his cultivation and worldly success.
But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the
purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen had come in January
1942: the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. According to the
surviving records of the meeting, items on the agenda included the
precise definition of exactly which group of people was to be
affected, followed by a discussion of how upwards of eleven million
people were to be deported and subjected to the toughest form of
forced labour, and following on from this a discussion of how the
survivors of this forced labour as well as those not capable of it
were ultimately to be killed. The next item on the agenda was
breakfast.
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