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Haus der Wannsee

TIME : 2016/2/18 19:25:42

In January 1942 a group of 15 high-ranking Nazi officials met in a stately villa near Lake Wannsee to hammer out the details of the ‘Final Solution’: the systematic deportation and murder of European Jews in Eastern Europe. Today, this exhibit commemorates this sinister meeting and its ramifications in the very room where discussions took place.

You can also study the minutes of the meeting (taken by Adolf Eichmann) and look at photographs of those involved, many of whom lived to ripe old age. The site is about 2.5km northwest of Wannsee S-Bahn station and served from there by bus 114 several times hourly.