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Oct 25, 2026
John BatchelorHOST
The new book is Stay Alive, Berlin, 1939 and 1945.
John BatchelorHOST
Wannsee Conference in a beautiful neighborhood around a lake that becomes a center of summertime pleasure.
John BatchelorHOST
There's a photograph in Ian's book of all of the German families and young people crowded on this beach with two German women soldiers staring at them with big grins on their faces.
John BatchelorHOST
So it's middle of the war, but at the same time, Wannsee is the place we associate with the order to exterminate the Jews.
Eric HalseyHOST
And amidst the stress of it all, Tsar Boris speaks openly of abdication or even suicide.
Eric HalseyHOST
Lastly, far away in Germany, the Wannsee Conference saw the initial planning of the Holocaust.
Eric HalseyHOST
It's clear now that things are only going to get more difficult for Bulgaria as it attempts to resist German requests, both for military, economic, and other assistance, and of course, to further repress its Jewish population.
Eric HalseyHOST
Today, we begin in February of 1942 with Bulgarian police capturing and interrogating, note that in this era of Bulgarian history, interrogation heavily implies torture, some important members of the Communist Party.
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Eric HalseyHOST
And while that was happening, a few weeks after the law was passed, the first mass transportation of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory to the Auschwitz concentration camp was completed.
Eric HalseyHOST
Soon afterwards, the Treblinka camp began operating as well.
Eric HalseyHOST
The Wannsee conference in which German officials planned this new stage of mass murder had only happened two months earlier, but its plans were already being put into action.
Eric HalseyHOST
For Jews under direct German control, it seemed only now a matter of time before their planned murder would take place.
Thomas777GUEST
And January 1942, and Hitler referred to that Weissman statement on more than one occasion.
Thomas777GUEST
And then January 30th, 1942, I don't accept the Wannsee conference narrative.
Thomas777GUEST
We can talk about that at some point and why I...
Thomas777GUEST
I think it was part of the narrative aspect of the case in chief for specific intent homicide.
Ryan CristiánHOST
They wanted control.
Ryan CristiánHOST
Zettler's interrogation occurred about two weeks after the Wannsee conference in Berlin, in which Nazi officials discussed the implementation of the final solution.
Ryan CristiánHOST
So he's being interrogated about the fact that they were working, trying to align themselves with them two weeks after it had become very publicly discussed that they were implementing the final solution.
Ryan CristiánHOST
So that's a timeline you can't ignore.
MickHOST
Heidrich, you can do that.
MickHOST
Because, you know, we already compared it to the Nuremberg Law, so we might as well, like, drag Heidrich and the Wannsee Conference in it as well.
MickHOST
So, I wouldn't be surprised if this was written at a lake house somewhere.
MickHOST
So, Eva Vlaringenbroek is the self-proclaimed shield maiden of the far right.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Speaking to Intimates in August 1941, the Fuhrer of the Third Reich claimed the fact that so many Germans had lost their homes after World War I justified the humane expulsion of Germany's Jews.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Five months later, at the Wannsee Conference, the policies that lay the foundation for the Holocaust were worked out in detail.
John FieldhouseGUEST
And again, that needs to be very much understood by Americans.
John FieldhouseGUEST
I'm not in any way justifying any of the genocides of the 20th century.
Ryan CristianHOST
They wanted control.
Ryan CristianHOST
Zettler's interrogation occurred about two weeks after the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, in which Nazi officials discussed the implementation of the Final Solution.
Ryan CristianHOST
So he's being interrogated about the fact that they were working, trying to align themselves with them two weeks after it had become very publicly discussed that they were implementing the Final Solution.
Ryan CristianHOST
So that's a timeline you can't ignore.
JoeHOST
And this obviously culminates in that infamously creepy meeting in Berlin, where several top Nazi officials and civil servants, given the green light from Hitler, sit down with teas, cakes and liquor to discuss how to eradicate a race from the planet as efficiently... as possible.
JoeHOST
This conference is called the Wannsee Conference, which I might have butchered the pronunciation slightly, but that's where it is.
JoeHOST
And it involves several high ranking officials, not Hitler, because Hitler desperately wanted to be kept away from people knowing that he was doing this.
JoeHOST
And there were people instead there like Adolf Eichmann, one of the most famous, you know, hater of the Jews of all time.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Speaking to Intimates in August 1941, the Fuhrer of the Third Reich claimed the fact that so many Germans had lost their homes after World War I justified the humane expulsion of Germany's Jews.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Five months later, at the Wannsee Conference, the policies that lay the foundation for the Holocaust were worked out in detail.
John FieldhouseGUEST
And again, that needs to be very much understood by Americans.
John FieldhouseGUEST
I'm not in any way justifying any of the genocides of the 20th century.
speaker_1HOST
They were starvation, enslavement, and targeted industrialized extermination.
speaker_2HOST
Yet we have to talk about the Holocaust, and specifically the Wannsee Conference in 1942.
speaker_2HOST
When we picture the architects of the Holocaust, we often imagine wild-eyed zealots in a military bunker.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
Right.
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