Conclusions - Wannsee Conference Book

The ultimate objective of Wannsee Conference was to facilitate the second stage of the Holocaust Project (“Holocaust by Gas”) – although there might have been the discussion of the “Holocaust by Bullets” as well. The objective of the former was to commit a serial mass murder of ultimately up to 4,500,000 Jews under German control (further 3 million or so were supposed to be shot).

Consequently, it was, indeed, the criminal conspiracy to commit a serial mass murder. Every attendee knew that he was conspiring with the others to commit genocide; everyone agreed to take part in this criminal enterprise (no one refused, let alone resigned in protest).

Everyone knew that he was supposed to (and did) make a not insignificant contribution to a serial mass murder of ultimately up to 4.5 million men, women, children and the elderly.

Hence, every attendee was guilty of a criminal conspiracy to commit mass murder. It is a capital crime punishable by death (where death penalty is on the books) or life in prison without the possibility of parole – LWOP – where it is not.

It is a colossal shame and a grave injustice that there was no “Wannsee Conference trial” (actually, there was no separate “Holocaust trial”). Only one attendee (Adolf Eichmann) was executed for his contribution to the Holocaust; two others – Josef B;hler and Karl Eberhard Sch;ngarth were executed for unrelated crimes.

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.

Holocaust perpetrators (especially the leaders of the “Holocaust Project” – Himmler, Heydrich, G;ring and, yes, Adolf Hitler) were textbook mission-oriented serial killers. Serial mass murderers, true – but still serial killers.

Nazi leaders were made into serial killers by a sequence of highly emotionally traumatic external events in 1914-33 (from hardships of war to Great Depression). As all these highly emotionally traumatic events were directly or indirectly associated with Jews, it is no surprise that the Nazi leaders made committed serial mass murder (genocide) of the Jews.

All serial killers share the same dynamics: they escalate (“graduate” from torturing animals to petty crimes to more serious crimes to very serious crimes such as rape); then snap (and start killing); then escalate (“graduate”) again to more and more vicious murders.

And that’s exactly what happened to the Nazis leaders: Hitler, G;ring, Himmler, and Heydrich. First, they escalated both in strategy (from forced emigration to deportation to inhospitable places) and in tactics (to a more and more severe persecution of Jews).

Then – sometime in early April of 1941 – they snapped and decided to commence mass murder of the Jews (initially, just men of military age in the Soviet Union). This snap was obviously triggered by an external event: On March 30, Adolf Hitler announced the existential war of annihilation against the “Judeo-Bolshevist” Soviet Union in May 1941 (it commenced on June 22nd).

Then they escalated again: from shooting all male Jews they graduated to murdering all Jews in the Soviet Union… and then escalated to murdering all Jews in all territories controlled by Germany and its allies. Thus, from “Holocaust by Bullets” to “Holocaust by Gas”.