<p>On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference. </p>
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Berlin was a center of Jewish life in Germany and—as the capital of the Reich—also the center for the planning of the "Final Solution," the decision to kill the Jews of Europe. The Wannsee Conference, named for the resort district in southwestern Berlin where it was held, took place in January 1942. High-ranking officials from the Nazi party, the SS, and the German state met to coordinate and finalize what they referred to as the "final solution to the Jewish problem." At the conference, these officials were informed that the SS would be responsible for carrying out the killing program and that the Jews of Europe would be deported to occupied Poland and killed.
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Berlin environs, 1942
View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. Krakow, Poland, date uncertain. During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.
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The "Final Solution"
Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. Lodz, Poland, 1942–44.
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The Wannsee Conference and the "Final Solution"
On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference. 
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Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference. 
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Wannsee Conference and the "Final Solution"
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Wannsee Conference and the "Final Solution" (Abridged Article) - Animated Map/Map
On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference. 
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Wannsee Protocol

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