Wannsee House Became a Museum 50 Years Later

Post-war history of the Wannsee House (also called Villa Minoux or Villa Marlier) is an excellent piece of evidence that proved that in a post-war Germany no one cared about the Holocaust (or the Jews for that matter) for decades.

The horrible truth about Wannsee Conference (and thus about the Wannsee House) was unveiled in 1947, when a copy of Wannsee Protocol was found by Robert Kempner, a U.S. prosecutor in the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office.

The West German government should have turned the Wannsee House into a museum right after the Federal Republic of Germany was founded on may 23, 1949… but it was not to be.

Instead, the villa was handed over to the Social-Democratic party who made into an educational center called the August-Bebel-Institute (ABI) whose objective was to “promote the development of democracy in post-war Berlin”.

For thirty years (1952-1982) Wannsee House was a school building – no surprise here, as ABI was an educational establishment. Only in 1982, Richard von Weizs;cker, then mayor of West Berlin (and subsequently President of Germany), designated the house a memorial. And only ten years later, on the 50th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, the Wannsee House became an official museum and educational center.

I’ve visited the Wannsee House in 2018 – it looks (both inside and outside) like any other provincial country estate – a magnificent mansion built in the Italian country house style. Inside, the rooms are well-lit and elegant, giving no hint of the horrifying event that happened there.

It is still a school… of sorts – in addition to its numerous exhibitions, the Memorial and Educational Site offers a wide range of educational programs to learn about the history of the persecution and murder of the European Jews, the history of National Socialism, its prehistory and its consequences.

Of course, this education is really an anti-Nazi propaganda (as all official history of the Third Reich in Germany these days). I am a mystic so I felt the presence of… well, a lot of invisible and intangible entities who during Second Great War walked the Earth in human form. In addition, Wannsee House feels like a portal… to I have no idea, where.

Of course, it is all paranormal and supernatural – so, according to mainstream science, it is just a figment of my imagination.