The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution

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Mark Roseman explores the chilling Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942, where fifteen Nazi officials gathered in Berlin to coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish Question." This pivotal meeting, which produced the infamous "Wannsee Protocol," remains a profound mystery. Roseman investigates how such a calm, business-like discussion formalized mass murder, and crucially, why this high-level assembly was considered essential when hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been systematically killed.