March-April 1942 Events Ocurring in United States On January 20, 1942, the Nazis held the Wannsee Conference, during which they outlined a plan to kill 11,000 Jews in Europe.

This story was originally published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference that took place on Jan. 20, 1942. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Jan. 27.

The role of the Wannsee Conference in formalizing the Nazi genocide plan is still sometimes misunderstood On Jan. 20, 1942—75 years ago this Friday—top-ranking Nazi party, SS and government ...

At the 1942 Wannsee Conference — indeed a luncheon — shorthand minutes were taken, but the conference’s chair Reinhard Heydrich ordered, at the meeting’s close, that the notes were not to ...

President Christian Wulff said Friday that so much time has passed since the Jan. 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference _ at which senior Nazis and bureaucrats coordinated plans for the Holocaust _ that it ...

The notorious 1942 meeting, in a villa in a posh Berlin suburb overlooking Lake Wannsee, reviewed, rather than approved, the "final solution of the Jewish question." Assent was a given.

The meeting took place at a villa alongside Lake Lehnitz, about 30 miles from the villa where the Nazis’ Wannsee Conference to discuss the “final solution” — a euphemism for the genocide ...

Film & TV In ‘Andor’ season 2, a Wannsee Conference reference, and a new sort of space Jew The new season is not pulling punches with its Nazi analogies ...