Two major participants in the Wanasse
Conference include Reinhart Heydrich and Heinrich Muller. Muller was the head of the Gestapo, he was
personally in charge of much of the persecution of Jews and other acts of Nazi
brutality. He would direct and carry
much of the actions suggested in the conference. Muller was needed in the meeting because he
would be highly involved in the application of the decisions made by the
conference. Heydrich played a much more
significant role, the planning phase. He
is described by more than a few people as one of the nastiest and cruelest of
the Nazis. He chaired the conference and
sought remove the “problem” of European Jewry.
He intended to improve the efficiency of Nazi genocide. The small group of Nazi officials he gathered
effectively formulated this plan in a ninety minute meeting. With a group smaller than ours in a time
frame comparable to the time we spent their today, made plans to greatly accelerate
Nazi Genocide and accomplished exactly that.
Heydrich was quite pleased.
1 comment:
I found it interesting that Heydrich and Muller were two major participants in the Wannsee Conference, a meeting that discussed the systematic persecution of 11 million Jews. When the general public thinks of the Holocaust, they think of Hitler. We obviously are aware the Holocaust involved many more people, two of which are Heydrich and Muller. Why do you think Hitler was not present at this conference and why do you think Heydrich and Muller are not as famously guilty as Hitler for the Holocaust?
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