The House of the Wannsee Conference

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 the "Final Solution." Reinhard Heydrich, SS chief Heinrich Himmler's head deputy and head of the Reich Main Security Office, held the meeting in order to involve key members of the German ministerial bureaucracy, including the Foreign and Justice Ministries, whose cooperation was needed to implement the killing measures. In this film by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Dr. Norbert Kampe, Memorial and Educational Site Director of the Villa at Wannsee, takes viewers on a tour of the tortuous history of the house where the "Final Solution" was coordinated. See the house for yourself, and listen as decades of history--before during and after the war---unfold. To learn more about the Wannsee Villa or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visit http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?l&ModuleId=10005477&.