Wannsee Conference Book. Executive Summary

1. From the legal perspective, Wannsee Conference was a criminal conspiracy to commit mass murder – cut and dry, plain and simple, loud and clear

2. Hence, it is a great shame – and a grave injustice – that there was no “Wannsee Conference trial” and that most attendees got away with their horrific, colossal crime (only Eichmann was executed for genocide of Jews)

3. Wannsee Conference was the centerpiece of “Holocaust by gas” – and thus the centerpiece of the whole genocide of the Jews – the “Holocaust Project”

4. Wannsee Conference was this centerpiece because it was convened specifically to create the infrastructure for “Holocaust by gas” (which accounted for about 70% of Holocaust victims) – and it was done

5. Well before they came to power (possibly as early as in 1919) Adolf Hitler and other National-Socialists intended to make territories under German control Judenfrei (“free of Jews”) or even Judenrein (“cleansed of Jews”)

6. Up until the outbreak of World War II in September of 1939, Hitler and his henchmen intended to achieve this objective by forced emigration only

7. After the outbreak of war, they decided to do it by forced deportation to giant Nisko camp and then to Southeastern Africa (Madagascar Plan)

8. To simplify deportations of Jews and make them more efficient, the Nazis re-created the system of Jewish ghettos which existed in Europe from mid-1500s to 1870 (they later became a key part of Holocaust infrastructure)

9. After both plans were abandoned (for obvious reasons), Hitler and his associates began to seriously consider the “final solution to the Jewish question” by murdering all Jews on all territories under German control

10. The idea of committing mass murder became acceptable to them after Night of Long Knives (murder of political enemies of Hitler in 1934), mass murder of Polish civilians in 1939-40 and especially after commencement of forced euthanasia program in 1939 (Aktion T4)

11. The latter subsequently became the model for “Holocaust by gas” (and the mass murder of Polish civilians – for “Holocaust by bullets”)

12. The major driving force for genocide of Jews was the inevitable (true) and existential (also true) war with the Bolshevist Soviet Union

13. One of the key (and incorrect) dogmas of National-Socialist ideology (which became the driving force of the Holocaust) was the dogma of the inevitable existential war between the “Aryan race” and the “Jewish race”

14. Another key (and also) incorrect dogma was that Bolshevist Soviet Union was created by the Jews to conquer and destroy the world (and the Aryan race); consequently, they were fighting the “Jewish-Bolshevist” enemy

15. This dogma was reinforced by sincere (and incorrect) belief in the authenticity of infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (by that time it was long ago proven to be a forgery created by agents of Russian political police in 1901 for purposes unknown)

16. The foundation of the (incorrect) dogma of “Jewish-Bolshevist Soviet Union” (which, indeed, planned to conquer and destroy the human civilization AS IS at that time) was a long list of Jews in the leadership of Russian (Soviet) Communist Party, Soviet government, armed forces, secret police, etc.

17. Founder of Marxism (and thus of Bolshevism) Karl Marx was an ethnic Jew and an alleged devil-worshipper

18. The decision to murder all Jewish men of military age (the first stage of “Holocaust by Bullets”) was made (most likely, by Himmler and Heydrich) in early April of 1941 – right after Adolf Hitler signed the Barbarossa Decree where he authorized legally sanctioned the mass murder of all Communist political leaders and intellectual elites in the Soviet Union

19. Although Hitler never gave an explicit (let alone written) order to kill all Jewish men of military age, he approved the abovementioned decision. Which made him equally responsible (and guilty) of genocide of Jews.

20. To implement this murderous decision, in April of 1941 Hitler and Heydrich re-created (under RSHA and thus Heydrich) Einsatzgruppen – death squads

21. The Holocaust commenced on the very next day after German invasion of the Soviet Union: six Jews were killed by SD squad near Liep;ja (Latvia)

22. The first full-scale massacre of Jews took place in Kaunas, Lithuania, on June 25-26, 1941 (on the third day of the invasion)

23. On July 31, 1941, the second-in-command in the Third Reich, Hermann G;ring (acting on Hitler’s orders) commanded (in writing) Reinhard Heydrich (head of RSHA – German security service) to design and implement the “final solution to the Jewish question” in all territories under German control (Greater Germany and occupied territories)

24. In August of 1941, SS-Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler (head of security on German-occupied Soviet territories) ordered to extend the “Holocaust by Bullets” to all Jews, including women, children and the elderly

25. On 24 August 1941, Hitler ordered the suspension of the Aktion T4 involuntary euthanasia program – which made its highly competent and experience personnel available for another “grand project”

26. Thus, the decision to commence “Holocaust by Gas” was most likely made at the end of August – or at the very beginning of September - of 1941 by Himmler and Heydrich (and subsequently approved by G;ring and Hitler making them equally guilty of the Holocaust)

27. To implement “Holocaust by gas”, it was decided to build a scaled-up reincarnation of Aktion T4 infrastructure: four (later expanded to six) killing centers which will use either stationary or mobile (gas vans) gas chambers – both successfully used in the forced euthanasia program

28. The cruel irony of Fate was that gas van was invented in 1937 by a Jew - NKVD officer Isaj Berg (later executed by his employers) and extensively used during the infamous Great Purge of 1937-38

29. Sometime in September of 1941, Himmler or (more likely) Heydrich found the way to silence Pope Pius XII thus removing a major obstacle to implementing the chosen method of “final solution of the Jewish question”

30. The four killing centers were to be built in Poland – in Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor

31. Killing centers were to be built in Poland because Poland was home to over half of Jews earmarked for the “Holocaust by Gas” (the ones in the Soviet Union and Romania were to be shot)

32. Initially, Wannsee Conference was scheduled to take place on December 9, 1941 – the very next day after the first killing center (Chelmno) became operational

33. To implement the “Holocaust by Gas” (and thus the whole “Holocaust project”), the killing centers had to be supported by a comprehensive operational and logistical infrastructure

34. The security branch of the SS (RSHA, WVHA, Order Police, etc.) was the primary agency in charge of the “Holocaust by Gas”; however, they needed support from all other key government entities of the Third Reich

35. More specifically, the SS needed the support from one of its own agencies outside the security branch (RuSHA); from the Nazi Party and from key government agencies: Reich Chancellery, Foreign Office, Interior, Justice, Four Year Plan, and the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

36. Thus, Wannsee Conference was convened to (a) secure cooperation of all these entities that the SS had no “official” control over; (b) assign specific tasks to each of these agencies; and (c) coordinate their activities through assigned SS liaison officers

37. Shorthand notes for the minutes (conference protocol) were taken by Eichmann's secretary, and the minutes were written by Eichmann in consultation with Heydrich

38. At the conclusion of the meeting, Heydrich gave Eichmann firm instructions about what was to appear in the minutes. They were not to be verbatim: Eichmann ensured that nothing too explicit appeared in them

39. Consequently, we will never know for sure what was said by whom during the Wannsee Conference

40. Copies of the minutes (known as the "Wannsee Protocol") were sent by Eichmann to all the participants after the conference

41. It was not until 1947 that one copy was found in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office – all other 29 copies have been destroyed

42. Every attendee knew perfectly well that he was supposed (by Adolf Hitler, no less) to make a valuable contribution to the murderous “final solution to the Jewish question”; consequently, it was, indeed, a genuine conspiracy to commit serial mass murder – genocide of Jews under German control

43. Consequently, after the war every attendee who remained alive (five died) should have been found, tried, convicted, sentenced to death and executed

44. It did not happen because the victorious Allies did not care much about the Jews – and neither did the Soviet Union

45. Everyone who was directly involved in the Holocaust (including the attendees of Wannsee Conference), sincerely (and incorrectly) believed (sorry, Hannah Arendt, there was no such thing as “banality of evil”) that to win the existential war with the “Jewish-Bolshevist Soviet Union” – and thus to save Germany and the whole human civilization from total destruction – they had to kill all Jewish men, women and children

46. On 20 January 1992, on the fiftieth anniversary of the conference, the building where it was held (contrary to some misconceptions, it was never owned by a Jew) was finally opened as a Holocaust memorial and museum known as the House of the Wannsee Conference