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Two Hours and a Lunch in Wannsee

Berlin, Germany —On the outskirts of this great city is a resort community known as Wannsee. This place has a large beautiful lake and serves as a summer playground for those who can afford it. When the Allies invaded Germany a curious transcript was found in the personal effects of a man named Martin Luther . Luther had been imprisoned in a concentration camp but he had been the Under Secretary of the Reich Foreign Ministry . This transcript was a Nazi secret document that was supposed to have been read and immediately destroyed. Luther violated the order and preserved it instead. That document shed a spotlight on a two-hour, January 20, 1942 meeting where 15 assembled high-ranking Nazis settled the Jewish Question . The question was answered with a plan to exterminate every Jew within their reach. The meeting was held in a sumptuous and grand Wannsee villa that exists today as a War Crimes Museum. Visitors can stand and walk on the same floors as the panelists did where the Hol...