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January 20, 1942
SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, acting on behalf of the Reich Security Main Office, oversees a meeting with officials from the SS, the SA, the National Socialist party, and members of the German government. The meeting is held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee.
Over the course of 90 min. this meeting goes over what they refer to as “the final solution to the Jewish question.” Among other things, they are presented with a census of all Jews in Europe and are instructed on plans to gather up all of these Jews, move them into ghettos used as holding stations, and from there shipped to various camps across Eastern Europe.
The meeting also lays out the specific criteria of who will be considered a Jew.
Here is the full transcript of the meeting minutes, which were transcribed by Adolf Eichmann, acting as Heydrichs number 2 during the meeting. It is 10 pages long.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf
SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, acting on behalf of the Reich Security Main Office, oversees a meeting with officials from the SS, the SA, the National Socialist party, and members of the German government. The meeting is held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee.
Over the course of 90 min. this meeting goes over what they refer to as “the final solution to the Jewish question.” Among other things, they are presented with a census of all Jews in Europe and are instructed on plans to gather up all of these Jews, move them into ghettos used as holding stations, and from there shipped to various camps across Eastern Europe.
The meeting also lays out the specific criteria of who will be considered a Jew.
Here is the full transcript of the meeting minutes, which were transcribed by Adolf Eichmann, acting as Heydrichs number 2 during the meeting. It is 10 pages long.
https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/news/uploads/WanseeProtocols.pdf
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