The Wannsee Conference, was held on 20 January 1942. At the conference, 15 high-ranking Nazi officials, SS and police officers, and representatives from the Nazi government’s operational departments, met in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to coordinate the implementation of the so-called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Reinhard Heydrich, Director of the Reich Main Security Office, originally planned the conference to take place on 9 December 1941, in order to discuss the deportation of Ger

#OTD in 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazis met in Wannsee to determine the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" — their euphemism for the systematic mass murder of the Jews. Although the conference lasted only 90 minutes, the fates of millions of people were affected. At the Wannsee Conference the Nazis collaborated with government agencies - in particular, railroads - in order to plan how to most efficiently deport millions of Jews to the East, laying the groundwork for the concentration and death