📅 On This Day in Military History

January 20

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⚔️📍 Wannsee, Berlin, Germany1942

Wannsee Conference — Final Solution Planned

Senior Nazi officials met at a villa outside Berlin to coordinate the systematic murder of Europe's Jews. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, the 90-minute meeting organized logistics for killing 11 million people across Nazi-occupied Europe.

The Wannsee Conference formalized the Holocaust as state policy and established the bureaucratic machinery that would murder six million Jews and millions of others.

Outcome

Holocaust industrialized across occupied Europe