Michael Frank is a contributing writer to Book Review. On a wintry morning in January 1942, 15 German bureaucrats, representatives of ministries responsible for the “Jewish question,” repaired to a ...

Several years ago, the Simon Wiesenthal Center acquired the most significant document in our history. The four-page letter was written and signed by a virtually unknown German soldier, Adolf Hitler, ...

BERLIN — In an elegant lakeside villa framed by frosted shrubbery and falling snow, 15 high-ranking Nazis sorted out the bureaucratic details for exterminating Europe’s 11 million Jews. As the ...

As snow fell around the splendid villa, a small group of men sat down in a room overlooking Lake Wannsee, just outside of Berlin, for a meeting on Jan. 20, 1942. In a session with no recorded dissent ...

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There were only 30 copies of the Wannsee Protocols, minutes of the top-secret meeting where Nazi leaders planned the Final Solution. Just one copy of the "heavily censored and sanitized document" ...

MARK LEVIN (HOST): It was originally slated for December 9, because of Pearl Harbor. Hitler declared war on the United States right after. The Wannsee Conference was rescheduled for January 20, 1942.

Actors will always tell you that the bad guys are much more fun to play than the good ones. Stroking their beards, peering out from black capes, hovering menacingly in the shadows — all that’s good ...

The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany's Bild newspaper reported. The daily printed ...