The Wannsee Conference

        On 20 January 1942, an interagency meeting of less than two hours, including lunch, was held at a lakeside villa, previously owned by Interpol, in Berlin's western suburb Wannsee to coordinate the implementation of the 'final solution of the Jewish question.' The meeting of high-ranking administrators of several ministries and other agencies was convened at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the powerful Reich Security Main Office, on the basis of Göring's instructions to …showed first 75 words of 1758 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1758 total…that the Jew constitutes a substantial danger as carrier of epidemics. . . More ever, the majority of the two and one-half million Jews involved were not capable of work.' (United 105)         Three decades later, at his trial in Jerusalem, Eichmann recalled: 'At the end, Heydrich was smoking and drinking brandy in a corner near a stove. We all sat together like comrades. . .not to talk shop, but to rest after long hours of work.' (United 105)