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Wannsee conference, held in the offices of Interpol, of which Reinhard Heydrich was the current chairman, in the Berlin suburb of Grossen-Wannsee on 20 January 1942. It was conducted in great secrecy to settle the concluding programme for the Final Solution which was already under way, Heydrich, the conference's chairman, having been ordered by Göring the previous July to find ‘a final solution of the Jewish question’. Besides discussing how best to implement the last stages of the Holocaust, through OPERATION REINHARD and other means, the fourteen other Nazi bureaucrats present—who included Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, and Adolf Eichmann—considered Heydrich's question of what to do with those who were half-Jewish or of mixed race, but no decision was taken as to how they were to be treated.

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Wannsee Conference, see concentration camps

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