Karoshi Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Wannsee Conference. On this day in 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich held a 90 minute meeting at 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, a villa in a quiet residential street near the great lake of the same name, not far from the popular Wannsee beach. The meeting minuted by SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann (Head of Referat IV B4 of the Gestapo), was to change the world, and 11 million people were to feel its effects. The meeting was recorded as the “Wannsee Protocol". It became known as the Wannsee Conference. A decision had been made to the "Jewish question." They were simply to be “evacuated to the East." Years later we would come to know this decision as the Final Solution or Holocaust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardrosser Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 is the house still there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 Yes, The villa, at 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee, was built in 1914. In January 1992, on the 50th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, the Villa was opened to the public as a memorial and education centre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardrosser Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 opened to the public as a memorial and education centre glad to hear of its new use, i know some idiots flock to these places as shrines mind you some people still try and pretend that it didn't happen :dunno: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 The minutes recorded there are very harrowing: Approximately 11 million Jews will be involved in the final solution of the European Jewish question, distributed as follows among the individual countries: Country Number A. Germany proper 131,800 Austria 43,700 Eastern territories 420,000 General Government 2,284,000 Bialystok 400,000 Protectorate Bohemia and Moravi 74,200 Estonia - free of Jews - Latvia 3,500 Lithuania 34,000 Belgium 43,000 Denmark 5,600 France / occupied territory 165,000 unoccupied territory 700,000 Greece 69,600 Netherlands 160,800 Norway 1,300 B. Bulgaria 48,000 England 330,000 Finland 2,300 Ireland 4,000 Italy including Sardinia 58,000 Albania 200 Croatia 40,000 Portugal 3,000 Rumania including Bessarabia 342,000 Sweden 8,000 Switzerland 18,000 Serbia 10,000 Slovakia 88,000 Spain 6,000 Turkey (European portion) 55,500 Hungary 742,800 USSR 5,000,000 Ukraine 2,994,684 White Russia excluding Bialystok 446,484 Total over 11,000,000 Yes it included 330,000 from the UK. Such Ayrian efficiency. There is much info to be found for a "Wannsee Conference" search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest matt Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Were there 330,000 Jews in the UK at the time? or did this figure include others the Nazi's considered "inferior" such as Gypsies? Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karoshi Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 Hi Matt...long time. As I read it, it was just Jews, not accounting for other "undesirables". I'll try and check that one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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