Set in Motion: The Final Plan to Terminate the Jews
Set in Motion: The Final Plan to Terminate the Jews

Summary/Abstract: This article reveals, through qualitative research on location, the bureaucratic and organi - zational efficiency of the Wannsee Conference which initiated the plan for “The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem”, a euphemism to disguise the implementation of total annihilation of the European Jewry. At the Wannsee Conference held on January 20th, 1942, fifteen top Nazi and government officials met zealously to discuss the implementation of the extermination procedures regarding the Jews. The article reveals that the extermination of the Jews was already in progress and that this meeting was held to finalize and accelerate the termination of the Jews in its totality. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Wann - see Conference and the plan to finally rid the world of Jews. It also discusses the paradox of the villa itself — it is placed on a beautiful location on a lakefront and yet the genocide of the Jewish people was put in fruition there. Through the eyes of the Deputy Director and Educational Director of the House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Center, it is exposed as a place trying to redeem itself by promoting educational projects and seminars to teach about the dangerous effects of racism, xenophobia, National Socialism, genocide, and their relevancy in today’s world at the original and authentic location. These projects are directed at teachers and pupils. The house is different from other museums, as it is a “museum of the perpetrators”.

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