On January 20 1942 a meeting lasting one and a half hours took place in a villa at Wannsee.
The only item on the agenda was the organization of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
In fact it was about a deportation and mass murder project with enormous dimensions about
which representatives of the security authorities and the ministries of the Third Reich
discussed with each other. The historian Peter Klein a profound expert on the subject gives a
dense overview of the development that led to this conference and of the contents that were
discussed there. He shows the significance of this coordination meeting and how its aftermath
unfolded. Facsimiles of key documents on the Wannsee Conference - including the minutes of the
proceedings - make it possible to reconstruct the events from the fi les of the authorities
involved and to grasp the specific character of this administrative murder of millions.
