# Wannsee Conference (1942)

URL: https://germany-history.com/timeline/1942-wannsee-conference
Location: Berlin-Wannsee
Categories: main-event

On 20 January 1942 senior officials met at Wannsee to coordinate the 'Final Solution'. Death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor killed millions. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

## Why it matters
It coordinated the murder of European Jewry.

Ruler at the time: [Adolf Hitler](https://germany-history.com/rulers/adolf-hitler)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia – Wannsee Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference)
- [Wikipedia – The Holocaust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica – Wannsee Conference](https://www.britannica.com/event/Wannsee-Conference)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica – The Holocaust](https://www.britannica.com/event/Holocaust)