Fresh Air And Final Solutions
How nice that the Nazis could enjoy fresh air and a pretty stretch of water while they were going over the details of The Final Solution at this villa for those who would carry it out, arranging:
for Jews to be transported from all over German-occupied Europe to SS-operated "extermination" camps in Poland. Not one of the men present at Wannsee objected to the announced policy. Never before had a modern state committed itself to the murder of an entire people.
We passed this while on a boat tour ("we" being the people from the Human Behavior & Evolution Society conference at the Frie University of Berlin). I really have too much imagination to be in this city. I keep picturing the Jews hiding behind the bushes every time I walk past a house that looks like it could have been around in WWII.
