The Wannsee conference - the planning of the Holocaust

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Bonobo,

It the Wannsee conference meeting tought in Polish history lessons. The mass murder, ehtnic cleansing and replacement of large groups of Polish Jews and Polish Roman Cathpolics were planned and talked about in bureaucratic detail during this top Nazi meeting on 20 January 1942. After that meeting the systematic mass murder and genocide of the Holocaust got a Industrial nature. A large part of the Holocaust took place in Poland, and a lot of Poles were evicted from their towns, villages and cities by the Germanisation policies of the Nazi's.

The new movie Wannseekonferenz therefor is interesting for Poles as well. I hope it will be shown in Polish cinemas with subtitles or voice overs. German cinema is throurough, historical accurate, and shows the history as it is. Also from a present day anti-Nazi West-German democratic, free and federal nature of the present day Germany which was build on the old Third Recih, but in many ways is it's antithesis.



Cheers,
Pieter

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Konferencja w Wannsee – spotkanie, które odbyło się 20 stycznia 1942 roku w willi przy Großer Wannsee 56/58 w Berlinie (obecnie muzeum Dom Konferencji w Wannsee), na którym zebrali się wysokiej rangi niemieccy urzędnicy państwowi, pod przewodnictwem Reinharda Heydricha. Tematem narady było omówienie ostatecznego rozwiązania kwestii żydowskiej, jak eufemistycznie określano rozpoczęte już ludobójstwo Żydów.

Uczestnicy konferencji

Strona tytułowa protokołu Konferencji w Wannsee z listą nazwisk uczestników

- Dr Josef Bühler – Urząd Generalnego Gubernatora w Krakowie,
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann – szef sekcji żydowskiej w Głównym Urzędzie Bezpieczeństwa Rzeszy (RSHA),
- Dr Roland Freisler – Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rzeszy,
- SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich – szef Głównego Urzędu Bezpieczeństwa Rzeszy,
- Otto Hofmann – Główny Urząd Rasy i Osadnictwa SS,
- Dr Gerhard Klopfer – Kancelaria Partyjna NSDAP,
- Dr Wilhelm Kritzinger – Kancelaria Rzeszy,
- Dr Rudolf Lange – Policja Bezpieczeństwa i SD (Służba Bezpieczeństwa),
- Dr Georg Leibbrandt – Ministerstwo Rzeszy Okupowanych Ziem Wschodnich,
- Martin Luther – Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych,
- Dr Alfred Meyer – Ministerstwo Rzeszy Okupowanych Ziem Wschodnich,
- Heinrich Müller – szef Gestapo w RSHA,
- Erich Neumann – Urząd Pełnomocnika ds. Planu Czteroletniego,
- Dr Eberhard Schöngarth – Policja Bezpieczeństwa i SD,
- Dr Wilhelm Stuckart – Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rzeszy[


Symbol of the Wannseekonferenz and the Holocaust/Shoa is SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich


Many people remember or know Adolf Eichmann from the trails that took place against him in Israel

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konferencja_w_Wannsee

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The 1984 German movie WannseeKonferenz, with English subtitles

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Kenneth Branagh played Heinrich Himmler's right-hand man in the SS, Reinhard Heydrich, who begins by explaining the purpose of the meeting.


The darkest figure within the Nazi regime SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich

Many historians regard Reinhard Heydrich as the darkest figure within the Nazi regime; Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart". He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, SD), an intelligence organisation charged with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and murders. He helped organise Kristallnacht, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938. The attacks were carried out by SA stormtroopers (Brown Shirts) and civilians and presaged the Holocaust. Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance. He was directly responsible for the Einsatzgruppen, the special task forces that travelled in the wake of the German armies and murdered more than two million people by mass shooting and gassing, including 1.3 million Jews.

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust. He was chief of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA, including the Gestapo, Kripo - criminal police-, and Sicherheitsdienst [SD]). He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor (Deputy/Acting Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia. He served as president of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC, later known as Interpol) and chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference which formalised plans for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" ("Endlosung" in German) —the deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe.


SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich

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The Poznań speeches of Heinrich Himmler



The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Poznań), in German-occupied Poland. The recordings are the first known documents in which a member of the Hitler Cabinet spoke of the ongoing extermination of the Jews in extermination camps. They demonstrate that the German government wanted, planned and carried out the Holocaust.

Overview



The Posen speeches of October 1943 are two of 132 speeches obtained in various forms which the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, conducted before officials of the Nazi party. The first speech was given before 92 SS officers, the second before Reichsleiters and Gauleiters, as well as other government representatives. They constitute some of the most important of Himmler's speeches during the war, as they demonstrate Himmler's role as "Architect of the Final Solution" and a visionary of an elite race to be henceforth supported by the SS state.

Although the genocide of the Jews was not the central topic in either of them, both carry historical significance in reference to it. Himmler dispensed with the usual euphemisms and spoke explicitly of the extermination of the Jews via mass murder, which he depicted as a historical mission of the Nazis. This connection became clear in five further speeches made between December 1943 and June 1944 to commanders of the Wehrmacht. In the literature, only the first speech was known as the "Posen Speech" until 1970. The second speech, uncovered at that time, is often mistaken as the first or equated with it.



The Night of the Long Knives

Decadent SA Nazi party in Bavaria end in Massacre by the SS. Watch from 1:43:04


Himmler refers in his speech to the The Night of the Long Knives. The Night of the Long Knives (German: audio speaker iconNacht der langen Messer (help·info)), or the Röhm purge, also called Operation Hummingbird (German: Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from June 30 to July 2, 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to consolidate his power and alleviate the concerns of the German military about the role of Ernst Röhm and the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazis' paramilitary organization, known colloquially as "Brownshirts". Nazi propaganda presented the murders as a preventive measure against an alleged imminent coup by the SA under Röhm – the so-called Röhm Putsch.

The primary instruments of Hitler's action, which carried out most of the killings, were the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary force under Himmler and its Security Service (SD), and Gestapo (secret police) under Reinhard Heydrich. Göring's personal police battalion also took part in the killings. Many of those killed in the purge were leaders of the SA, the best-known being Röhm himself, the SA's chief of staff and one of Hitler's longtime supporters and allies. Leading members of the leftist-leaning Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, including its figurehead, Gregor Strasser, were also killed, as were establishment conservatives and anti-Nazis, such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Bavarian politician Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. The murders of SA leaders were also intended to improve the image of the Hitler government with a German public that was increasingly critical of thuggish SA tactics.

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Apr 9, 2022 11:24:12 GMT 1 pjotr said:

It the Wannsee conference meeting tought in Polish history lessons.

Of course, because the Holocaust is in the primary school curriculum already.