Die Wannseekonferenz

15 leading representatives of the SS, the NSDAP and the ministerial bureaucracy meet at midday on January 20, 1942 in a villa on the Großer Wannsee in Berlin. Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and SD, invited to a meeting followed by breakfast. In the meeting, which lasted about 90 minutes, the mass murder of millions of the Jewish population of Europe was planned and organized.