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On January 20, 1942, details about the extermination of Europe's Jews were discussed. Even 80 years later, the minutes of the Wannsee Conference send chills down the spine.
The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, was not about consumer trends, projected profits or shareholder value, it was about life and death. Specifically, systematic death.
The Wannsee conference, originally scheduled for December 9, 1941, took place amid a staggering crisis of the Nazi regime. Just a few weeks earlier, ...
As Germany observes the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, witnesses of the Nazi era are dying and antisemitism is resurgent in Europe and the United States. By Katrin Bennhold BERLIN — On ...
This story was originally published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference that took place on Jan. 20, 1942. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Jan. 27.
The Wannsee Conference served as an opportunity for the Nazi regime to coordinate that process across various departments and divisions, military or otherwise.
Peter Longerich's forensic history chillingly shows how the 1942 meeting was a key juncture on the road to the Final Solution Reinhard Heydrich wanted everyone at Wannsee to know that he was in ...
BERLIN — The Berlin villa which hosted the 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which top Nazi officials finalized plans for the Holocaust, will on Sunday launch a new permanent exhibition aimed at ...
At the 1942 Wannsee Conference — indeed a luncheon — shorthand minutes were taken, but the conference’s chair Reinhard Heydrich ordered, at the meeting’s close, that the notes were not to ...
Film & TV In ‘Andor’ season 2, a Wannsee Conference reference, and a new sort of space Jew The new season is not pulling punches with its Nazi analogies ...