The Wannsee Conference: How Genocide Was Planned

In January 1942, fifteen Nazi officials met at a lakeside villa in Berlin-Wannsee to coordinate the extermination of Europe's Jews. This episode explores the conference's context, key participants, and the chilling bureaucratic language of the 'Final Solution.' We discuss Reinhard Heydrich's role, Adolf Eichmann's protocol, and how the meeting formalized a genocide already underway. The episode also examines the limits of the historical record, the villa's transformation into a memorial, and the broader question: who knew what, when? With careful attention to detail, we trace the decisions that led to Auschwitz and Sobibor, and the ordinary men who made them. #WannseeConference #FinalSolution #Holocaust #ReinhardHeydrich #AdolfEichmann #BerlinWannsee #VillaAmGroßenWannsee #Shoah #Genocide #NaziGermany #WorldWarII #History #FexingoHistory #GermanyHistory #1942 #Auschwitz #Sobibor #BureaucracyOfEvil Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo