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The Wannsee Conference Memorial

On January 20, 1942, leading figures in the Nazi state apparatus met at the Wannsee villa in Berlin for the infamous Wannsee Conference. It was the prelude to the largest, bureaucratically planned, industrial mass murder in history.

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