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20 January 1942 | A meeting was held in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee to discuss logistics and legal aspects of the operation of the extermination of Jews. This is the first page of the #Wannsee conference protocol. Find documents here: ghwk.de/fileadmin/Reda…
The following people took part in the conference on the final solution (Endlösung) of the Jewish question held on January 20, 1942, in Berlin, Am Großen Wannsee No. 56-58.
A fragment from the protocol of the Wannsee Conference: "In the course of this final solution of the European Jewish question approximately 11 million Jews may be taken into consideration, distributed over the individual countries as follows".

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