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4 unusual facts about Wannsee


Blanche Coleman

Given the honorary rank of major in the US Army, she and the band were housed in the infamous "Wannsee Villa" for a time.

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Several large scale facilities are available, the most important of which are the 10 MW BER-II research reactor at the Lise Meitner campus in Wannsee and the 3rd generation BESSY synchrotron in Adlershof.

Jagdschloss Glienicke

Jagdschloss Glienicke is a small German hunting lodge in Berlin-Wannsee near Glienicke Bridge.

Mita Klima

At the beginning of the 1930s, Klima took a job as a sports director at a golf club at Berlin-Wannsee, the Golf- und Landclub Berlin-Wannsee.


Ernst Marlier

On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich announced the decision to murder the Jews of Europe at the Wannsee Conference, which took place in the Wannsee Villa.

Ernst Ferdinand Emil Marlier (born 28 July 1875 in Coburg; date and place of death uncertain) was a German pharmaceutical manufacturer who built the Wannsee Villa, where the Wannsee Conference was held.

Friedrich Minoux

Friedrich Minoux (March 21, 1877 in Mutterstadt – October 16, 1945 in Berlin) was a German industrialist and financier who is best known for being one of the owners of the Wannsee House, where the namesake conference that would decide the fate of millions at the hands of the Nazis during World War II was held in early 1942.

Hermann Frenkel

Hermann Frenkel (born May 21, 1850, Danzig - died May 26, 1932, Berlin) was a partner of the Jacquier and Securius Bank and after 1923 a partner of Friedrich Minoux, owner of the Wannsee Villa, later the venue of the Wannsee Conference.

Strandbad Wannsee

For the Strandbad Wannsee, preferred material for facades is yellow clinker, the bricks lending the complex its characteristic hue.

Wannsee Conference

One copy of the Wannsee Protocol, the circulated minutes of the meeting, survived the war to be found by Robert Kempner, lead U.S. prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office.

Wannsee House and the Holocaust

Wannsee House and the Holocaust by Steven Lehrer tells the story of the elegant suburban Berlin villa where the Wannsee Conference took place on January 20, 1942.

Wong May

Her Wannsee Poems, written during a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship in Berlin, were translated as Wannsee Gedichte by Nicolas Born.


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