House of the
Wannsee Conference
Memorial
and Educational Site
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• The entrance to the Memorial Site is free, but some events and special exhibitions have an admission charge.
• The
Educational Department offers group tours in several
languages, seminars and study days. • Pupils, trainees and students are free of charge. • Groups of more than 10 are asked to book in advance with the secretariat (secretariat@ghwk.de). • All rooms of the exhibit and the library are wheelchair accessible. |
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The Historical Site
In this house – a former industrialist’s villa built in 1914-15 and used from 1941 to 1945 by the SS as a conference centre and guest house – on 20 January 1942, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the SS, the NSDAP [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei] and various ministries met to discuss their cooperation in the planned deportation and murder of the European Jews.
The SS representatives reported to the state secretaries present on the murder campaigns which had been carried out by German Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union since August 1941 and on the killing methods already in use.
What is today referred to as the "Wannsee Conference" was chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). His deportation expert Adolf Eichmann drew up a protocol of the meeting, which was found in 1947 in the foreign ministry files. The Wannsee Protocol documents with alarming clarity the plan to murder all European Jews and the active participation of Germany’s public administration in this genocide.
On January 20, 2012 the Memorial Site opens at 12.00 noon.
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• Authorization letter of Hermann Göring to Reinhard Heydrich, July 31, 1941 | |||||||||||||||
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to Martin Luther, Foreign Office of
November 29, 1941
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"Requests and ideas of the Foreign
Office in connection with the intend final solution of the Jewish question in Europe", Memorandum for Understatesecretary Martin Luther for the meeting, December 9, 1941 |
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The participants of the Conference
(pdf-file) • Organigram of the participants at the Conference (pdf-file: 206 KB)
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Protocol of
the Wannsee
Conference ► text version ► pdf-file ► German original (*pdf-files) |
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Circular by
Heydrich about the beginning of the "Final solution of the
Jewish question" of January 25, 1942 (in German) |
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Letter
by
Heydrich
to the Head of the
SS Personal Main Office
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Letter by Heydrich to the
Higher SS and Police leader state secretary Frank
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"Geheim-Schnellbrief" Eichmanns
conc. "Evacuation of
Jews"
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Letter by Heydrich to Luther (Foreign Office) of February 26,
1942 in connection
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Note of the commander in chief
of the security police and
SD in Riga concerning
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Minutes of the first conference
after the
Wannsee Conference at the Reich
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Letter
by Dr Franz Schlegelberger, acting Reichsminister of Justice,
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Letter by Rademacher,
Foreign Office, conc. "Future measures against
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Letter by Robert Kempner about the finding of the protocol
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