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In 1942, bureaucrats of the Nazi regime discussed the murder of millions of Jews in a villa on the Grosser Wannsee in Berlin. It was a turning point. The protocol showed the path from disenfranchisement and persecution to systematic mass murder. The idea for this conference came from Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office, the central persecution and extermination authority. The Gestapo, the secret state police, was also subordinate to him. In 1941, Hermann Göring commissioned him with a major project. Heydrich was to present "an overall draft" - on the desired "final solution to the Jewish question" in Europe. Authorized by the highest authority, Heydrich invited the authorities and institutions involved to a conference - in the SS guest house on the Grosser Wannsee. The men who spoke about the murder of millions were educated. Eight of them had doctorates. Heydrich also invited important representatives of the SS and police to the conference, such as Heinrich Müller, Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Eberhard Schöngarth, and Dr. Rudolf Lange. It is clear to all participants: the mass murder has already begun. And no one has any objections. At the conference, killing and elimination are openly discussed. But the minutes, written by Eichmann according to Heydrich's instructions, state in veiled terms that Jews should "be put to work in the East". But what is always meant is murder. It will be the most murderous conference in history to date. // Chapter // 00:05 Intro 00:41 Convening of the Wannsee Conference 03:26 Situation in the East 05:56 Review: Persecution of Jews from 1933 07:20 War of annihilation from 1941 12:57 Escalation of mass murder 16:37 Margot Friedländer // Team // Author: Jörg Müllner Editing: Bernhard Schulder This video is a ZDF production in collaboration with History Media. #TerraX #Wannsee Conference #Holocaust You can find a feature film, documentaries and various videos about the Wannsee Conference on our ZDF focus in the media library: https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terr... Subscribe? Just click here – / @terraxhistory All films and information about Terra X can be found here – https://terra-x.zdf.de/#xtor=CS3-82 Terra X on Facebook – / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram – / terrax