Category: wannsee conference

We Must Not Be Complicit

On January 20, 1942, high-ranking members of the Nazi party met at Wannsee, right out side of Berlin, to begin the implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Reinhard Heydrich tasked Adolf Eichmann with organizing the conference, since Eichmann was a director of Jewish Affairs. Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann in Jerusalem, describes the discussion of the Wannsee Conference as focusing “first on ‘complicated … Read More We Must Not Be Complicit