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"Wannsee - Konferenz"

by Anita Šakić

Seminar und Filmvorführung

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the eve of Croatia's presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), on Thursday, January 19th, 2023, the seminar "Wannsee Conference - The Final Solution of the Jewish Question" was organized by the Konrad Foundation Adenauer in cooperation with the Center for the Promotion of Tolerance and the Preservation of Holocaust Remembrance, the Goethe-Institut in Croatia and the Festival of Tolerance - JFF Zagreb. The president of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the former president of the German Bundestag, prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert also addressed the gathered guests via video message.

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As part of the seminar, Matti Geschonneck's film "Wannsee Conference" was shown, which describes the meeting of the leading representatives of the Nazi regime on January 20th, 1942 in a villa in the suburbs of Berlin on Lake Wann. The script was derived from the meeting protocol compiled by Adolf Eichmann. The topic was the "final solution of the Jewish question" - the organization of the systematic mass killing of millions of Jews in Europe. The implementation of the Holocaust, i.e. the complete extermination of the Jews from Europe, the infamous "Endlösung", was agreed at the conference. The film received numerous awards, including two German television awards (Deutscher Fernsehpreis) for best TV film and screenplay. It also won the prestigious Prix Europa award for the best European motion picture. After the movie, a presentation by the professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, Tvrtko Jakovina, PhD. and film historian Daniel Rafaelić followed together with a discussion with the audience.

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