20 January 1942 Wannsee Conference on Final Solution plans the eradication of 11 million Jews #otdimjh #onthisday

From the ICEJ website: The Wannsee Conference was held on January 20, 1942 at a lakeside villa outside Berlin and was attended by 15 high-ranking Nazi bureaucrats who set in motion the implementation of a plan to eradicate the Jews of Europe. The meeting was convened by Reinhard Heydrich, assistant to deputy Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, who led a discussion on methods to be used for the systematic, industrial murder of all Jews within Germany’s reach. A chart compiled by Adolf Eichmann for the Wannsee Conference listed all of the estimated 11 million Jews of Europe and northwest Africa as potential targets.

In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish populations of Europe and French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labor on road-building projects, in the course of which they were expected to eventually die. According to the recorded minutes of the Wannsee Conference, any surviving remnant would be annihilated after completion of the road projects. This initial plan was soon altered as subsequent events unfolded during the war. When Soviet and Allied forces began pushing back the German lines, Nazi leaders decided to accelerate the extermination process and most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe were sent to death camps or concentration camps, or killed where they lived. Nonetheless, the Wannsee Conference stands as the clearest single evidentiary proof on which the entire Nazi leadership can be indicted for a collective genocidal plot to eradicate all of European Jewry.

In the months leading up to Wannsee, German forces invading the Soviet Union had made rapid advances to the gates of Moscow and a euphoric Nazi leadership began to discuss how to deal with the four million Jews of Eastern Europe which had fallen under German control. Shedding any moral restraints, Hitler and his chief lieutenants, Herman Göring and Heinrich Himmler, deliberated over the most practical “solution” to the “Jewish question.” Although no written order by Hitler to exterminate all Jews has ever been found, certain comments he made around this time made it clear he wanted to rid them from his realm. Based on this understanding, Göring gave written authorization to Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), to “make all necessary preparations” for a “total solution of the Jewish question.”

From the Record of the Meeting:

Approximately 11 million Jews will be involved in the final solution of the European Jewish question, distributed as follows among the individual countries:

Country Number

1. Germany proper 131,800
   Austria 43,700
   Eastern territories 420,000
   General Government 2,284,000
   Bialystok 400,000
   Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 74,200
   Estonia – free of Jews –
   Latvia 3,500
   Lithuania 34,000
   Belgium 43,000
   Denmark 5,600
   France / occupied territory 165,000
   unoccupied territory 700,000
   Greece 69,600
   Netherlands 160,800
   Norway 1,300
2. Bulgaria 48,000
   England 330,000
   Finland 2,300
   Ireland 4,000
   Italy including Sardinia 58,000
   Albania 200
   Croatia 40,000
   Portugal 3,000
   Rumania including Bessarabia 342,000
   Sweden 8,000
   Switzerland 18,000
   Serbia 10,000
   Slovakia 88,000
   Spain 6,000
   Turkey (European portion) 55,500
   Hungary 742,800
   USSR 5,000,000
   Ukraine 2,994,684
   White Russia
   excluding Bialystok 446,484

Total over 11,000,000

The number of Jews given here for foreign countries includes, however, only those Jews who still adhere to the Jewish faith, since some countries still do not have a definition of the term “Jew” according to racial principles.
The handling of the problem in the individual countries will meet with difficulties due to the attitude and outlook of the people there, especially in Hungary and Rumania. Thus, for example, even today the Jew can buy documents in Rumania that will officially prove his foreign citizenship.

Prayer: In the face of such evil, how is it possible to pray as Yeshua did: “Father, forgive them, they knew not what they did?” It seems only possible to mourn the loss of 6 million, crying out to God for justice. What Hannah Arendt would call ‘the banality of evil’ was planned on such a monstrous scale that we can only recoil in horror, and cry out for God’s mercy, justice, healing, reconciliation and forgiveness. Amen, Lord have mercy.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jewishnb/hrc/mti/wannsee.pdf

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=101471&start=15

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Wannsee/

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/EasternGermany/Wannsee/Wannsee01.html

http://prorev.com/wannsee.htm

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