Question

What was the Wannsee Conference and its significance to the Holocaust

Answer 1

The Wannsee conference, as it became known, did not mark the beginning of the "Final Solution" as mobile extermination squads were already massacring Jews in the occupied Soviet Union. In fact, the Wannsee Conference was the occasion when the “Final Solution” was formally revealed to leaders, not directly linked to the Nazi Party, who, under the direction of the SS, would assist in organizing the transport of Jews from all over the world. areas of Europe occupied by the Germans for the "extermination" camps in Poland. None present at Wannsee disputed the announced policy. Never before has a modern state committed itself to the extermination of an entire people.