The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference, c
The villa Am Großen Wannsee 56–58, where the Wannsee Conference was held, is now a memorial and museum.
1935 chart shows racial classifications under the Nuremberg Laws: German, Mischlinge, and Jew.
Letter from Göring to Heydrich, concerning the "total solution of the Jewish question"
Letter from Heydrich to Martin Luther, Undersecretary at the Foreign Office, notifying him that the conference would be delayed
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel, a convicted war criminal, and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. He participated in th
Wannsee Conference
…Gerhard Klopfer Permanent Secretary Nazi Party Chancellery Chief of the Party Chancellery Martin Bormann SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Adolf Eichmann Head of Referat IV B4 of the Gestapo Recording secretary Gestapo, RSHA, Schutzstaffel Chief of Amt IV SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller SS-Sturmbannführer…
Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf (résumé) attached to his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
Memorial to Holocaust victims at a bus stop near the site of Eichmann's office, Referat IV B4 (Office of Jewish Affairs) at Kurfürstenstraße 115/116, Berlin, now occupied by a hotel
Hungarian woman and children arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May or June 1944 (photo from the Auschwitz Album).