Timeline Tuesday 20 January 1942

Events on Tuesday 20 January 1942 2

• 1942 Wannsee Conference Nazi officials plan the Holocaust Senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee villa in Berlin on January 20, 1942, to coordinate the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" — the systematic murder of all European Jews.
• 1942 Wannsee Conference Nazi officials coordinate the "Final Solution" Reinhard Heydrich chaired a meeting of senior Nazi and German state officials at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The meeting coordinated the ministries and agencies involved in the deportation and murder of Europe's Jews. Adolf Eichmann's minutes of the conference survived and became key evidence of the Holocaust's planning.