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Jan 20, 1942:
The Wannsee Conference
On this day, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the
"Final Solution" of the "Jewish question."
In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from
Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich
Himmler's number-two man, to submit "as soon as possible a
general plan of the administrative, material, and financial
measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of
the Jewish question."
Heydrich met with Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Central Office of
Jewish Emigration, and 15 other officials from various Nazi
ministries and organizations at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. The
agenda was simple and focused: to devise a plan that would render
a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. Various
gruesome proposals were discussed, including mass sterilization
and deportation to the island of Madagascar. Heydrich proposed
simply transporting Jews from every corner Europe to
concentration camps in Poland and working them to death.
Objections to this plan included the belief that this was simply
too time-consuming. What about the strong ones who took longer to
die? What about the millions of Jews who were already in Poland?
Although the word "extermination" was never uttered during the
meeting, the implication was clear: anyone who survived the
egregious conditions of a work camp would be "treated
accordingly."
Months later, the "gas vans" in Chelmno, Poland, which were
killing 1,000 people a day, proved to be the "solution" they were
looking for--the most efficient means of killing large groups of
people at one time.
The minutes of this conference were kept with meticulous care,
which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes
trials.
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