What Question Was Addressed at the Conference? What Were the Possible Solutions Discussed? What Ultimately Was Decided at the Conference?

What question was addressed at the Conference? What were the possible solutions discussed? What ultimately was decided at the Conference? Why

Wannsee Conference and Protocol

The purpose Wannsee Conference was to, “firstly, to establish the overall control of the deportation program by the RSHA over a number of important Reich authorities and thereby, secondly, to make the top representatives of the ministerial bureaucracy into accomplices and accessories to, and co-responsible for, the plan he was pursuing. The plan was to exile all Jews in the present and future areas under German rule to Eastern Europe” The question addressed was the” final Solution of the Jewish Problem”. The possible solutions discussed “included voluntary emigration, confinement to ghettos in cities located along rail lines, forced removal to concentration camps, and finally, extermination.” In the end they decided to force Jews into hard labor for their benefit Heydrich stated, “Jews fit to work will work their way eastward constructing roads. Doubtless the large majority will be eliminated by natural causes.” He literally wanted to work them until they died. Also they brought up the idea of sterilization instead of "evacuation" for half Jews, compulsory divorce for Germans married to Jews. The sole purpose of this meeting was to get Jews off German soil and to remove Jews from Europe. The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. At some time in 1941, Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder. Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference (1) to inform and secure support from government ministries and other interested agencies relevant to the implementation of the “Final Solution,” and (2) to disclose to the participants that Hitler himself