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Browse historical events and people recorded at Wansee in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work
The Conference sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question". During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work
Chairs the Conference which sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question"
This record states: A surviving copy of the minutes of this meeting was found by the Allies in 1947.
This record states: During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work.
This record states: During the conference, there was a discussion held by a group of German Nazi officials to decide on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
This record states: The Conference sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question".
By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms
Code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, marks the beginning of the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps
By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms
Code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, marks the beginning of the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps.
During the operation, as many as two million people are murdered in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, almost all of whom were Jews.
Named in memory of Reinhard Heydrich, coordinator of the Endlosung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question), extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by the German 3rd Reich.
Named in memory of Reinhard Heydrich, coordinator of the Endlosung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question), extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by the German 3rd Reich
By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms
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