To kill them, to kill them all.
It wasn't exactly announced, but it was where the decision was made to kill the Jews.
The Nazis had hoped to be able to ship millions of Jews out of Europe to set up a new homeland somewhere so they could get rid of them.
When the war started, exporting them became impossible, then the Russian campaign started and the numbers involved became so huge, millions, that they decided extermination was the only solution to the problem.
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The decision had already been taken and the Final Solution was already in operation. (The first routine mass gassings began at Chelmno on 8 December 1941; the Wannsee Conference took place on 20 January 1942). The conference was concerned with adminstrative co-ordination.
Technically the Final Solution was not discussed. The murder (and other actions) against the Jews was.
The Final Solution was the plan and method to murder Europe's Jews, but it was not announced at the Wannsee conference. The concept was announced, but the plan was not.
the retreat
The Wannsee Conference was concerned with organizing the practical arrangements of the 'Final Solution'. The decision to kill the European Jews had already been taken, and at a higher level.
You are probably thinking of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942. However, routine mass gassings of Jews had already started at Chelmno (Kulmhof) camp on 8 December 1941. The Wannsee Conference was fairly short (90 minutes) and was concerned with getting the various agencies involved (local police, the SS and the railways) to co-operate.
About 90 minutes. It was concerned with the administrative co-ordination of the Final Solution and not with policy. It is clear from the minutes that the key policy decisions had already been taken.
The Final Solution was introduced during the Wansee Conference and it was 15 of the most important S.S. men in Europe that discussed it. The full name is: The Final Solution of the The Jewish Question____The 'Final Solution' had already started when the Wannsee Conference took place on 20 January 1942. Most of the Serbian Jews had been killed by the end of 1941; routine mass gassings had begun at Chelmno, and the SS/SD mobile killing units had been systematically machine-gunning Jews in the then Soviet Union since late June, 1941. It would be more accurate to say that the 'Final Solution' was introduced piecemeal, in rapidly escalating stages.
The Wannsee Conference, but it is not agreed that it established the Final Solution.
At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942
no it was the Wannsee conference
The Holocaust had begun earlier but officially "the final solution of the Jewish question" was discussed January 20, 1942 during the Wannsee Conference . ~ see related link below .
the retreat
The Wannsee Conference was concerned with organizing the practical arrangements of the 'Final Solution'. The decision to kill the European Jews had already been taken, and at a higher level.
In short the Wannsee conference was held to set in motion the final solution. Heydrich was tasked as chief executer of disposing of Germany's Jewish problem. The Wansee conference was to gain the support for the final solution from all those departments head involved in Jewish policies.
The Wannsee Conference planned for the elimination of European Jewry : "The final solution of the Jewish question".__________________________Not really; guidelines were put into place about how to classify and treat the various degrees of mixed Aryan/Jewish people. Also they discussed how to treat those Jews that were in employment and useful to the war effort.At this meeting they were still proceeding with the idea of sterilising Jews and not letting another generation exist, they were not yet committed to The Final Solution.
Not much, it was a meeting of secondary people where they were basically told their role and their departments' roles in what was to come.
You are probably thinking of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942. However, routine mass gassings of Jews had already started at Chelmno (Kulmhof) camp on 8 December 1941. The Wannsee Conference was fairly short (90 minutes) and was concerned with getting the various agencies involved (local police, the SS and the railways) to co-operate.
About 90 minutes. It was concerned with the administrative co-ordination of the Final Solution and not with policy. It is clear from the minutes that the key policy decisions had already been taken.
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."