Auschwitz,
the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world
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“True opponents of the state had to be securely locked up... Only the SS were
capable of protecting the National Socialist State from all internal danger. All
other organizations lacked the necessary toughness.”
– Memoirs of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz
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On January 20, 1942, a strategy for the mass murder of the Jews was fully
articulated at an infamous meeting at 56/58 Am Grossen Wannsee, an SS villa in a
fashionable Berlin suburb. With Reinhard Heydrich in charge and Adolf Eichmann
taking the minutes, the Nazis’ “Final Solution” was articulated: All Jews under
Nazi control were to die...
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56/58 Am Grossen Wannsee
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Gauleiter Dr. Meyer Reich Ministry for the Occupied
and Reichsamtleiter Eastern territories
Dr. Leibbrandt
Secretary of State Dr. Stuckart Reich Ministry for the Interior
Secretary of State Neumann Plenipotentiary for the
Four Year Plan
Secretary of State Dr. Freisler Reich Ministry of Justice
Secretary of State Dr. Bühler Office of the Government General
Under Secretary of State Foreign Office
Dr. Luther
SS-Oberführer Klopfer Party Chancellery
Ministerialdirektor Kritzinger Reich Chancellery
SS-Gruppenführer Hofmann Race and Settlement Main Office
SS-Gruppenführer Müller Reich Main Security Office
SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann
SS-Oberführer Dr. Schöngarth Security Police and SD
Commander of the Security Police
and the SD in the
Government General
SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Lange Security Police and SD
Commander of the Security Police
and the SD for the General-District
Latvia, as deputy of the Commander
of the Security Police and the SD
for the Reich Commissariat "Eastland".
II.
At the beginning of the discussion Chief of the Security Police and of the SD,
SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, reported that the Reich Marshal had appointed him
delegate for the preparations for the final solution of the Jewish question in
Europe and pointed out that this discussion had been called for the purpose of
clarifying fundamental questions. The wish of the Reich Marshal to have a draft
sent to him concerning organizational, factual and material interests in
relation to the final solution of the Jewish question in Europe makes necessary
an initial common action of all central offices immediately concerned with these
questions in order to bring their general activities into line. The
Reichsführer-SS and the Chief of the German Police (Chief of the Security Police
and the SD) was entrusted with the official central handling of the final
solution of the Jewish question without regard to geographic borders. The Chief
of the Security Police and the SD then gave a short report of the struggle which
has been carried on thus far against this enemy, the essential points being the
following...
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