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70 Years Later: Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the “Final Solution”


Apr 11, 2012

“1942 was the most astounding year of murder in the Holocaust. One of the most astounding years of murder in the whole history of mankind.” On the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, Holocaust historian and keynote speaker Mark Roseman shared insights into the infamous January 1942 meeting in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where top Nazi leaders met to discuss and coordinate the Holocaust. “Wansee offers a window into a paradigm of a chilling, recognizably human, indescribably inhumane process of evolution and adaptation. [At Wansee] what we find is the capacity in individuals and the system to evolve and adapt into murder.”