Nazi Party elite, SS chiefs, and representatives from the various ministries, and from the Office of the Reich Kommissar for the Strengthening of Germandom, wined and dined and formally approved a program of mass extermination as their ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Problem.’ The fifteen men of Wannsee thereby settled the fate of six million European Jews in a few short hours.
In his concise 152-page book, The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution, historian Mark Roseman tells the story, basing his exposition upon the original minutes of the meeting.