History glossary
Wannsee Conference
the 20 January 1942 meeting where senior Nazi officials coordinated the Final Solution across occupied Europe.
- Category
- Nazi planning meeting
- Region
- Berlin, Germany
- Date range
- 20 January 1942
What it means
The 20 January 1942 meeting where senior Nazi officials coordinated the administrative implementation of the Final Solution. The meeting did not begin the Holocaust, but it aligned ministries and agencies behind deportation and mass murder.
Stories using this term
The Holocaust
From legal discrimination to genocide, the Holocaust traces twelve years of escalating persecution that killed six million Jews and millions of others across Nazi-occupied Europe.
The Second World War
From fragile peace to global war, WWII reshaped the world through conflict, genocide, and new power orders.
