The Wannsee Conference

The Wannsee Conference, held in 1942 in a Berlin suburb, was a meeting of senior Nazi officials to coordinate the plan for the Holocaust—a systematic, industrialized attempt to exterminate Jews and other targeted groups. They discussed logistics, implementation, and the "Final Solution," which involved mass shootings, deportations, and the operation of extermination camps. The meeting marked a key moment in turning anti-Jewish policies into coordinated genocide, reflecting the Nazi regime’s brutal, bureaucratic approach to genocide during World War II.