80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes. [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/2/226:00 AM

By Katrin Bennhold, Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images, The New York Times, January 20, 2022

On Jan. 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials of the Nazi bureaucracy met in a villa on Lake Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin. Nibbles were served and washed down with cognac. There was only one point on the agenda: “The organizational, logistical and material steps for a final solution of the Jewish question in Europe.”

Planning the Holocaust took all of 90 minutes.

Eighty years after the infamous Wannsee Conference that meticulously mapped it out, the bureaucratic efficiency of it remains as unnerving as ever.

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