1. January 20, 1942 “The Final Solution”
Wannsee Conference
January 20, 1942
“The Final Solution”

2. On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS organization, convened a conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. At the meeting, 15 top Nazi bureaucrats and members of the SS met to coordinate the "Final Solution" in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the 11 million Jews of Europe and the Soviet Union

3. The minutes of the conference shown below were
taken by Adolf Eichmann, but were personally
edited by Heydrich after the meeting, substituting
the coded language Nazis often used when referring
to lethal actions to be taken against Jews-
"...eliminated by natural causes," refers to death by a combination of hard labor and starvation.
"...transported to the east," refers to the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos in occupied Poland, then on to the planned gas chamber complexes at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz.
"...treated accordingly," refers to execution by SS firing squads or death by gassing - also seen in other Nazi correspondence in a variety of connotations such as "special treatment" and "special actions" regarding the Jews.

4. Wannsee Conference Participants
- Dr. Meyer Reich Ministry for the Occupied and Reichsamtleiter Eastern territories
-Dr. Leibbrandt Secretary of State
-Dr. Stuckart Reich Ministry for the Interior
-Secretary of State Neumann Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan of State
-Dr. Freisler Reich Ministry of Justice Secretary of State
-Dr. Bühler Office of the Government General Under Secretary of State
-Foreign Office Dr. Luther SS-Oberführer Klopfer
-Party Chancellery Ministerialdirektor Kritzinger Reich Chancellery
-SS-Gruppenführer Hofmann Race and Settlement Main Office
-SS-Gruppenführer Müller Reich Main Security Office
-SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann
-SS-Oberführer Dr. Schongarth Security Police and SD Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Government General
-SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Lange Security Police and SD Commander of the Security Police and the SD for the General-District Latvia, as deputy of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD for the Reich Commissariat "Eastland". II.

5. Letter of Invitation Head of the Security Police and SD
IV B /41g (1180)Berlin SW 11, November 29, 1941
Prinz-Albrecht-Straße
8                                                                                                     Personal. To
SS Major General [Gruppenführer] Hoffmann [wrongly spelled “ff”]
Race and Settlement Main Office
Berlin
Dear  H o f f m a n n !
  On July 31, 1941, the Reich Marshal of the Großdeutsches Reich has
commissioned me, together with other pertinent central agencies
involved, to carry out all necessary preparations in regard to
organizational, practical and material measures requisite for the
total solution of the Jewish question in Europe, and to submit to him
in the near future a general outline thereof. I am enclosing with my
letter a photocopy of this order.
            

6. Invitation Lettercont.
Considering the exceptional importance of these measures, and in
order to reach a common agreement on all aspects connected with
this final solution among the central agencies concerned, I suggest
that we make these problems a matter of joint discussion, especially
because since October 15, 1941 Jews are already continuously being
evacuated from the territory of the Reich, including the Protectorate
of Bohemia and Moravia, to the East.
I therefore invite you to attend such a meeting, to be followed by
breakfast, on December 9, 1941 at noon, at the office of the
International Criminal Police Commission, Berlin, Am Kleinen
Wannsee No. 16 [handwritten crossed out and corrected to] Am
Großen Wannsee Nr. 56/58. [handwritten marginal note: Following
to a tel. call of Sturmbannführer Günther on December 4, 1941 street
changed].

7. Invitation Letttercont
I have sent similar letters to Generalgouverneur Dr. Frank,
Gauleiter Dr. Meyer, State Secretaries Stuckart, Dr. Schlegelberger,
Gutterer and Neumann as well as Reichsamtsleiter Director Dr.
Leibbrandt, Undersecretary Luther, SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger,
SS-Gruppenführer Greifelt, SS-Oberführer Klopfer, and Permanent
Secretary Kritzinger.
Heil Hitler!
Yours  [handwritten signature:]   Heydrich
Enclosure: 1

8. Opening Remarks…
the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people,
the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people.
to make all necessary arrangements for the preparation for an increased emigration of the Jews
to direct the flow of emigration,
to speed the procedure of emigration in each individual case.
-The aim of all this was to cleanse German living space of Jews in a legal manner.

9. German Lists of Jews throughout Europe
Germany proper ,800
Austria ,700
Eastern territories ,000
General Government 2,284,000
Bialystok 400,000
Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 74,200
Estonia free of Jews
Latvia ,500
Lithuania ,000
Belgium ,000
Denmark ,600
France / occupied territory ,000
unoccupied territory ,000

10. German list of Jews throughout Europecont.
Greece ,600
Netherlands ,800
Norway ,300
Bulgaria ,000
England ,000
Finland ,300
Ireland ,000
Italy including Sardinia 58,000
Albania
Croatia ,000
Portugal ,000
Rumania including Bessarabia ,000
Sweden ,000
Switzerland ,000
Serbia ,000

11. German list of Jews throughout Europecont.
Slovakia ,000
Spain ,000
Turkey (European portion) 55,500
Hungary ,800
USSR ,000,000
Ukraine ,994,684
White Russia excluding Bialystok 446,484
Total over ,000,000

12. Breakdown of Jews in Europe by Trade
Agriculture %
Urban workers %
In trade %
Employed by the state %
In private occupations
such as medical profession,
press, theater, etc %

13. Nuremberg Laws and how they related to Jews in Germany and Europe
Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree
Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the Second Degree
Marriages between Full Jews and Persons of German Blood.
Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of German Blood.
Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree or Jews.
Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of Mixed Blood of the Second Degree.

14. The villa at 56-58 Am Grossen Wannsee Berlin, where the Wannsee Conference was held.
Today it is a memorial and museum