Lauren Ward

Mr. Neuburger

English 102-104

April 8, 2011

The Wannsee conference convened on January 20,

1942. The purpose of the Wannsee Conference was to

inform all those that would be participating in the operation

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of the “Final Solution” or that needed to be reassured of the
Reinhard Heydrich oversaw the
Einsatzgruppen (killing squads). He also
convened the Wannsee conference. plan. Also to inform every one of whom Hitler had

appointed to be in charge of the project, Heydrich and the

RSHA. This was all necessary, to keep all involved on the ‘same page’, so to speak. The “Final

Solution” was the code name to annihilate all of the Jews in Europe. Hitler put the order out for

this mass murder to begin in 1941. The plan was to bring all the Jews under the German Reich

to the East and put them, separated by gender, into these “labor camps”, where they would be

disappearing. In order to accomplish this plan they had to build the largest killing facilities ever

made. They were called death camps. The Jews were impacted greatly, even more than words

can describe. Their lives would only be taken more rapidly and without any thought. The camps

that were designed to accomplish the “Final Solution” were not meant to leave any Jew that went

through them alive. The Jews had nowhere to go, with no belongings and most of the time

without family; they knew what fate was being brought to them, with very little hope for

anything else. The Nazi’s on the other hand had all of the power. They were the ones creating

these methods for murder and working hard to kill as many as they could in one day. The “Final
Solution” gave them more of a purpose for what they wanted to do all along. The Nazi’s would

only feel like they had an important operation to accomplish, most believing it would be no

problem, in order for their jobs to be done. The extermination of the Jews went on till 1945

when allied forces came in to save the last few remaining.