Who developed the final solution and why?

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The attendees of the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942 drafted, adopted, and enacted the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

The attendees, their titles, and the offices to which they were attached are listed below:

  • SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich; Chief of the RSHA, Deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia; Schutzstaffel
  • Dr. Josef Bühler; State Secretary; German Government
  • Dr. Roland Freisler; State Secretary; Reich Ministry of Justice
  • SS-Gruppenführer Otto Hofmann; Head of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office; Schutzstaffel
  • SS-Oberführer Dr. Gerhard Klopfer; Permanent Secretary; Nazi Party Chancellery
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger; Permanent Secretary; Reich Chancellery
  • SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Rudolf Lange; Commander of the SiPo and the SD for the General District Latvia, Deputy of the Commander of the SiPo and the SD for the Reichskommissariat Ostland; SiPo and SD, RSHA, Schutzstaffel
  • Dr. Georg Leibbrandt; Reichsamtleiter; Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
  • Martin Luther; Under Secretary; Reich Foreign Ministry
  • Dr. Alfred Meyer; Gauleiter State Secretary and Deputy Reich Minister; Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories
  • SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller; Chief of Amt IV (Gestapo); Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), Schutzstaffel
  • Erich Neumann; State Secretary; Office of the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan
  • SS-Oberführer Dr. Karl Eberhard Schöngarth; Commander of the SiPo and the SD in the General Government; SiPo and SD, RSHA, Schutzstaffel
  • Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart; State Secretary; Reich Interior Ministry
  • SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann; Head of Referat IV B4 of the Gestapo Recording Secretary: Gestapo, RSHA, Schutzstaffel

*Translations (literal in most cases):

  • Obergruppenführer - Upper-Group-Guide, the highest SS paramilitary rank
  • Gruppenführer- Group Guide, paramilitary rank of the SS subordinate to Obergruppenführer.
  • Obersturmbannführer - Senior Storm Unit Leader, equivalent to a Lietenant Colonel of the German army.
  • Sturmbannführer - Storm Unit Leader, paramilitary rank of the Nazi party, equivalent to a Major.
  • Schutzstaffel - Protection Squadron (known as the SS)
  • Reich Chancellery - the office of the Chancellor of Germany (Adolf Hitler's office).
  • SiPo (Sicherheitspolizei) - security police, the state political and criminal investigation security agencies.
  • Reichskommissariat Ostland - National Department of the Eastern Lands
  • RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) - Reich Main Security Office, organization lead by Heinrich Himmler in his capacities as Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) and Reichsführer-SS.
  • Reichsamtleiter - Office manager
  • Gauleiter - party leader of a regional branch of the Nazi Party.
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