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The Wannsee Conference: How Bureaucrats Planned the Holocaust
On January 20, 1942, fifteen men met in a villa on Lake Wannsee in Berlin. Over lunch and cognac, they coordinated the genocide of Europe's Jews. This episode follows the meeting from its origins—Heydrich's need for authority, the initial invitation in December 1941—to the 90-minute conference itself. We discuss the attendees: Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Eichmann, and the state secretaries who represented the Interior Ministry, the Justice Ministry, the Foreign Office, and others. The 'Wannsee Protocol' survives, a chillingly euphemistic document listing eleven million Jews…
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