Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, at which top officials of the German Reich discussed the \"Final Solution of the Jewish Question.\" Dr. Nili Keren, Academic Director of Masuah Institute for Holocaust Studies in Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak, explained to Arutz-7 that a major purpose of the Wannsee Conference was to bring the second-level leadership of the Nazi regime into the picture as well. \"Their goal was to show the totality of the matter from all standpoints,\" she explained. \"Whoever identified himself as a Nazi had to take part in this enterprise - which, after all, was the purpose of Nazism; Hitler always said that he would be successful only if there were no Jews left... The plan, as noted in the protocol - which was written by Adolph Eichmann - included not only the Jews of Eastern Europe, but also those of England and neutral countries.\"
The Nazi leaders determined at Wannsee that a solution other than \"cleansing German living space of Jews in a legal manner\" had \"taken the place of emigration, i.e. the evacuation of the Jews to the East... These actions are, however, only to be considered provisional, but practical experience is already being collected which is of the greatest importance in relation to the future final solution of the Jewish question...
\"In the course of the final solution the Jews are to be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will be taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes. The possible final remnant, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, will have to be treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as the seed of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history). In the course of the practical execution of the final solution, Europe will be combed through from west to east…\"
The full text of the Wannsee protocol can be seen at \"http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocWanns.htm\".
The Nazi leaders determined at Wannsee that a solution other than \"cleansing German living space of Jews in a legal manner\" had \"taken the place of emigration, i.e. the evacuation of the Jews to the East... These actions are, however, only to be considered provisional, but practical experience is already being collected which is of the greatest importance in relation to the future final solution of the Jewish question...
\"In the course of the final solution the Jews are to be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will be taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes. The possible final remnant, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, will have to be treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as the seed of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history). In the course of the practical execution of the final solution, Europe will be combed through from west to east…\"
The full text of the Wannsee protocol can be seen at \"http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/DocWanns.htm\".