After wwii ended, many high ranking nazi officials were tried and convicted during the nuremberg trials as a. Wannseekonferenz was a meeting of senior government. Understanding willing participants, volume 2 pp 167218 cite as. The ss envisioned that some 11 million jews, some of them not living on germancontrolled territory, would be eradicated as part of the nazi program. There is some good history in there about the holocaust. The replayed wannsee conference with artistic license.
Pdf the wannsee conference, the fate of german jews, and. On january 20, 1942, an infamous meeting of highranking members of the ss took place in berlinwannsee. At the wannsee conference on january 20, 1942, senior nazi officials meet to. In accordance with the protocol, two of the films characters. Because the wannsee conference has attained iconic status since the protocol was discovered in 1947, a book with wannsee as its focus may draw many curious readers beyond history specialists. Pdf on jan 6, 1999, edith shaked and others published the holocaust.
The nazi party had always targeted jews ever since coming into power after world war i, but it was not until 1942, the year the wannsee conference was held, that the mass murder of jews that was occurring throughout europe turned into systematic genocide source 1. The myth of the wannsee conference, this book contains a full english translation of the entire wannsee protocol, and a full set of the german original for comparison purposes. First published in 2011 as tale tales from the german woods. The wannsee conference, the fate of german jews, and. A real time recreation of the 1942 wannsee conference, in which leading ss and nazi party officials led by ssgeneral reinhard heydrich. Meyer reich ministry for the occupied and reichsamtleiter eastern territories dr. The wannsee conference in the development of the final solution wannsee conference by. Stuckart reich ministry for the interior secretary of state neumann plenipotentiary for the four year plan secretary of state dr. The following persons took part in the discussion about the final solution of the jewish question which took place in berlin, am grossen. Download free ebooks of classic literature, books and novels at. The wannsee conference 1984 in 1942, a group of highranking nazi officials meet and calmly discuss the logistics of the final solution, the elimination of jews from germany. The wannsee conference leads to the holocaust and the genocide of 6 million jews. This book offers a valid reassessment of the wannsee conference. It does not diminish the horror and evil of what they did, but rather gives a much more coherent explanation of why it occurred, when and where it did, why the personnel involved were relatively low level rank for such a task.
Nazi officials discuss final solution at the wannsee conference. This disturbing shift occurred due to the creation of the final solution. By the start of world war ii in 1939, around 250,000 of germanys 437,000 jews emigrated to. Use this printable worksheet and interactive quiz to.
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