Wannsee Conference Was a Team Building Event

Wannsee Conference was a criminal conspiracy to commit a serial mass murder (genocide of Jews under German control). However, in modern management terms, it was essentially a team building event.

By the date of Wannsee Conference, decision to kill all Jews under German control (and under control of Axis powers in Europe) via “Holocaust by Gas” has been made (by Heydrich and Himmler) and approved (by G;ring and Hitler).

The first killing center (Chelmno) had been operational for over a month and three others – in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka – were under construction. As was Auschwitz II – Birkenau, the killing center next to Auschwitz I labor camp.

To operate (let alone at maximum performance), “Holocaust by Gas” needed operational infrastructure. To create and operate this diabolical system, joint effort of several Nazi agencies was needed.

The SS (RSHA, Order Police, RuSHA, WVHA, HSSPF); Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, NSDAP, Ostministerium (it was needed to complete “Holocaust by Bullets” in the occupied territories of the USSR), General Government and Reich Chancellery. Office of the Four-Year Plan also had to be involved – to (temporarily) spare the “productive Jews” vitally important for the war effort.

Bosses of all of the above gave their approval prior to Wannsee Conference (it was done in one-to-one conversations between them and Reinhard Heydrich – the CEO of the “Holocaust Project”).

However, to create and operate the murderous infrastructure for the “Holocaust by Gas” (and complete the “Holocaust by Bullets”), Heydrich needed to assemble and manage a highly efficient team of those who will actually do this job.

Hence, Wannsee Conference was essentially a team building event. A highly successful team building event, expertly managed by Heydrich (evil organizational genius of the Third Reich).

He skillfully created the impression that everyone’s opinion was important (it wasn’t), carefully led everyone to the decision to support the “Holocaust by Gas” (except for the SS, no one had even suspected that it was to happen) and – what was the most important – made everyone make a firm commitment to common goal: extermination of all Jews under (direct or indirect) German control.

Judging by the ultimate result (over 3 million Jews were murdered in the “Holocaust by Gas”), it was a very successful team building event indeed.