Michael Frank is a contributing writer to Book Review. On a wintry morning in January 1942, 15 German bureaucrats, representatives of ministries responsible for the “Jewish question,” repaired to a ...

Several years ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center acquired the most significant document in our history. The four-page letter was written and signed by a virtually unknown German soldier, Adolf Hitler, ...

BERLIN — In an elegant lakeside villa framed by frosted shrubbery and falling snow, 15 high-ranking Nazis sorted out the bureaucratic details for exterminating Europe’s 11 million Jews. As the ...

As snow fell around the splendid villa, a small group of men sat down in a room overlooking Lake Wannsee, just outside of Berlin, for a meeting on Jan. 20, 1942. In a session with no recorded dissent ...

Eighty years ago, on January 20, 1942, fifteen men assembled in an idyllic lakeside estate near Berlin. The men were highly educated—seven held advanced degrees, including in philosophy, law, and ...

There were only 30 copies of the Wannsee Protocols, minutes of the top-secret meeting where Nazi leaders planned the Final Solution. Just one copy of the "heavily censored and sanitized document" ...

MARK LEVIN (HOST): It was originally slated for December 9, because of Pearl Harbor. Hitler declared war on the United States right after. The Wannsee Conference was rescheduled for January 20, 1942.

Like the town of Auschwitz, the Berlin suburb of Wannsee has become a synonym for genocide. On January 20 1942, 15 senior Nazi officials gathered there at a lakeside villa to discuss "the Final ...

Holocaust Day is on January 27th, commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz, but the day almost coincides with the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, on January 20th, when in 1942, Adolf Eichmann ...