A short video about the Wannsee conference, where Senior Nazi officials gathered in 1942 to plan for the deportation and extermination of European Jews. Primary evidence of the conference includes a list of statistics on the number of Jews in different parts of the world and some documents about the methods of extermination that had been tried out on Jewish communities. The conference was a milestone in the history of Nazi Germany--it was the point at which the systematic genocide of the Jewish population was planned and approved.

Video Series: Lesson Starters
Release Date 2010