European leaders to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi Wannsee Conference

European leaders to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi Wannsee Conference 

 Friday, January 20, 2012 Print this article Forward this article

Haaretz

By Danna Harman

Over 70 parliamentarians from across Europe will gather in Brussels on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, a pivotal moment in Holocaust history.

Seventy years after a group of Nazi officials gathered at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the “final solution,” the statesmen will issue a special declaration to commemorate the event at which various other “final solutions” —such as exile to Madagascar and deportation eastward — were taken off the table in favor of the plan to exterminate European Jewry.

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