Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Dachauer Hefte; Studien und Dokumente zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischer Konzentrationslager
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (1992) 150-163
Keywords:
Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (Berlin, Germany)
;
Wannsee-Konferenz
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
National socialism Study and teaching
Abstract:
Describes the abortive attempt in 1965-72 by a Holocaust survivor, Joseph Wulf, to establish an international documentation center on National Socialism, for whose site he proposed the Wannsee villa in which Nazi leaders had consulted on implementing the Final Solution. Despite the backing of many prominent persons, the project was not realized, partly for practical reasons but also because Berliners were unwilling to turn the building, serving as a children's vacation home, into "another macabre cult site". In the 1980s, however, the Berlin Senate decided, without significant opposition, to establish in the villa a center for the commemoration of the victims of Nazi genocide, information on Nazi crimes, and education for democracy. It was opened on 20 January 1992.
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