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The Wannsee Conference: A Quiet Villa, a Horrible Plan
In January 1942, fifteen men met in a villa on the shore of Berlin's Wannsee lake. They weren't soldiers. They were bureaucrats — lawyers, administrators, SS officers — and they spent ninety minutes coordinating the systematic murder of eleven million people. That meeting, known as the Wannsee Conference, has become shorthand for the bureaucratic machinery of the Holocaust. But the story is more complicated than the popular image. The conference didn't start the genocide — mass shootings were already underway in the East. Instead, Wannsee was about jurisdiction, logistics, and…
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