Exhibition upgraded at Wannsee Conference villa where Holocaust was planned New permanent exhibit at Berlin site, where Nazis plotted genocide of the Jews while sipping cognac, aims to attract wider ...

A leading Jewish archivist and historian of the Nazi era announced here today that the West Berlin municipal government has been advised that, unless it makes the notorious Wannsee Villa in Berlin ...

The future of the notorious villa at Wannsee, in Berlin, where Nazi leaders decided the “final solution” of the Jewish question, is under consideration by the Government, but no decision has been ...

Eighty years ago, on January 20, 1942, fifteen men assembled in an idyllic lakeside estate near Berlin. The men were highly educated—seven held advanced degrees, including in philosophy, law, and ...

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 ...

Kenneth Branagh, dapper in his SS costume, his blond hair neatly slicked back, coldly spat out the words during production of the HBO film "Conspiracy": "Dead men don’t hump. Dead women don’t get ...

German President Christian Wulff has spoken of Germany's "shame" on a visit to the villa where 70 years ago senior Nazis planned the mass murder of Jews. "It is important and a national task to keep ...

Last Friday, January 20, marked the 75th anniversary of the notorious Wannsee Conference, in which 15 influential representatives of the Nazi regime discussed at a villa in the suburb of Berlin the ...

The Berlin villa which hosted the 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which top Nazi officials finalised plans for the Holocaust, will on Sunday launch a new permanent exhibition aimed at attracting more ...

I was having tea with a group of writers and scholars on the veranda of a formidable white-stucco, red-tile-roof house looking out at Lake Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin. The lake was wrapped ...