A Meeting About Mass Murder: Making Sense of the Wannsee Conference

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Just over 80 years ago, 15 men met on the shores of the Wannsee to chat about mass murder. The site of this dignified discussion of the unthinkable, surrounded by elegance, followed by brunch, will remain compelling as long as humanity as recognizably human. But 80 years on, can we make more sense of it?

Mark Roseman is Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor in History at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Lives Reclaimed. A study of rescue and resistance in Nazi Germany (2019) and general editor of the Cambridge History of the Holocaust (forthcoming).

This event is organized by Frank Biess und Jörg Neuheiser (both UC San Diego) in cooperation with the Pacific Office of the GHI Washington. The lecture is part of the program "Germany on Campus", sponsored by the German Consul General, Los Angeles.