The Wannsee Conference: Eighty-Five Minutes of Genocide and Cognac
On January 20th, 1942, some of Hitler's henchmen gathered in a villa at the Wannsee, one of Berlin's lakes. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich Security Main Office, SS-'Obersturmbannführer' Adolf Eichmann and thirteen more Nazi officials discussed the deportation and murder of Europe's Jews while they were enjoying drinks.
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