Wannsee

Wise1 · 17-09-2007, 10:00 PM

What are you views on how important the conference was in relation to the drawing up of the final solution?

Kyt · 17-09-2007, 10:39 PM

To help people along, maybe a read of the Wansee Conference Protocol would be worthwhile first:

http://www.ghwk.de/engl/protengl.htm

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Wise1 · 17-09-2007, 10:57 PM

It is doubtful that had the final solution been discussed in any detail that it would be have been minuted.

Kyt · 17-09-2007, 11:05 PM

What i always understood the Wansee Conference to be was the gathering of the many organisations and agencies in one place for the first and only time, to discuss the Jewish "Question".

As to what that "question" was has been discussed ever since the end of the war. But, what seems to have been important is that prior to this, the many organsiations of the Nazi power were all making their own decisions, taking their own actions and often fobbing off responsibilities on to their neighbours.

Was Wansee the start of the actual Holocaust? I don't think so - the Einsatzgruppen had been in action since the beginning of the war, and especially active since the invasion of Russia. But it could be seen as the start of the systemization and industrialisation of the killings.