A meeting called by the officer in charge of the so-called Jewish department of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), Adolf Eichmann, upon order of RSHA leader Reinhard Heydrich, acting upon authorisation given by the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. The conference was devoted to the issues of extermination of European Jews.
(the Wannsee Protocol, source texts, Jewish Historical Institute)
(history of the Wannsee Conference, House of the Wannsee Conference)