Inside The Wannsee Conference: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust]

In early 1942, several high-ranking Nazi officials convened in a lavish villa outside Berlin for what would later be known as the Wannsee Conference. For years after the war, conventional wisdom was that in this infamous conference the Final Solution was decided upon. Today we know that mass murder of Jews began well before the conference. Given this, what makes the Wannsee conference such an important landmark in the history of the Holocaust? Today on "On the Holocaust" we'll talk about the decisions at the conference, about the “desk murderers” and about one crucial document that was uncovered by chance. Featured guest: Christoph Kreutzmueller, curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Co-editor of The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference.

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Inside The Wannsee Conference: a Yad Vashem Podcast [On the Holocaust] is an episode from On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem by Yad Vashem.

This episode is 28:36 long.

This episode was published on Mar 9, 2022.

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