Wannsee Conference plans the Holocaust
January 20, 1942
In a lakeside villa outside Berlin, fifteen senior Nazis and SS officers spent ninety minutes over coffee and cognac coordinating the Final Solution: the transport, gassing, and industrial murder of all Europe's Jews. Minutes were taken in bureaucratic language that masked the horror. Adolf Eichmann handled logistics. Death camps in Poland were already under construction.
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Also in 1942 (4 other events on record)
- Stalingrad begins · Europe · War
- Midway turns the Pacific war · Oceania · War
- Japanese internment in America · North America · Politics
- Bataan Death March · Southeast Asia · War
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