Wannsee Conference: Nazi Leaders Plan the Holocaust Over Lunch
Reinhard Heydrich convened senior Nazi officials to coordinate the bureaucratic machinery required for deporting and murdering millions of European Jews. This meeting transformed state-sponsored persecution into an industrialized genocide by aligning multiple government ministries under a single extermination plan. The surviving protocol from this gathering later served as irrefutable evidence at the Nuremberg Trials, confirming the administrative nature of the Holocaust in historical record.
January 20, 1942
84 years ago
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