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9 unusual facts about Wannsee conference


Alfred Meyer

Meyer attended the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 as a representative for Rosenberg.

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.

Karl Eberhard Schöngarth

Schöngarth attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, along with Dr. Rudolf Lange (Einsatzgruppen A), who had also participated in the Holocaust.

Loring Mandel

His best known and most acclaimed work was the 2001 TV film Conspiracy, which dramatized the 1942 Wannsee Conference and featured an ensemble cast, including Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, and Colin Firth.

Robert Kempner

Kempner also served as counsel at the 1947-1948 trial of the German Foreign Office and is credited with finding the text of the Wannsee Protocol, a critical historical document in the history of the Holocaust.

Wannsee Conference

It was not until 1947 that Luther's copy (number 16 out of 30 copies prepared) was 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.

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.


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.

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.

Zielonowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (1890 - 1947), civil servant, participant of the Wannsee conference


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