Wannsee Institut, a research institute in Nazi Germany, focused on studies of the politics and economics of the Soviet Union.
The Wannsee Institut was founded as a private foundation in Wannsee, southwest of Berlin, and was incorporated by Reinhard Heydrich into the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) in 1936. It operated camouflaged as the Institute for Research of Antiquity, lodged in the expropriated mansion of the wealthy German-Jewish family of Oppenheim. Research staff were recruited from the University of Berlin, preferably with Baltic background. The institute was first headed by the Georgian émigré scholar Michael Achmeteli, who was succeeded by the Austrian professor Hans Koch. In 1942, during the increased Allied bombing raids, the Wannsee Institut was evacuated to Schloss Plankenwart near Graz, Austria. During this period, the Wannsee Institut was closely associated with the group preparing Operation Zeppelin, aimed at recruiting Soviet POWs for espionage and sabotage behind the Russian lines. After the war, the surviving material of the Wannsee Institut's valuable holdings was transferred to the Gehlen Organization, an intelligence agency in the United States-occupied zone of Germany.[1]
^Adams, Jefferson (2009), Historical dictionary of German intelligence, pp. 480-481. Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0-8108-5543-7.
WannseeInstitut, a research institute in Nazi Germany, focused on studies of the politics and economics of the Soviet Union. The WannseeInstitut was...
émigré scholar, an expert on Soviet agriculture and sometime chief of WannseeInstitut, the SS-controlled research institute of Soviet studies in Nazi Germany...
physicist Michael Achmeteli (1895–1963), agronomist, sometime chief of the WannseeInstitut Juansher Chkareuli (born 1940), physicist Giorgi Chubinashvili (1885–1973)...
membership in the SS followed. In 1937, Augsburg became associated with the WannseeInstitut." Between 1939 and 1941 he worked for the Security Police. As part...
lived there. By the late 1930s, he held a prestigious position at the WannseeInstitut, the German center for studies of the Soviet Union. By the time of...
Alfred Rosenberg. Leibbrandt was a participant at the 20 January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question...
Kraków, he served as deputy to Hans Frank. He was a participant at the Wannsee Conference and was hanged as a war criminal by Poland in 1948. Josef Bürckel...
Institute moved from its longtime villa on Schwanenwerder Island near Wannsee to its current headquarters in Berlin-Mitte. From September 2013 until...
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tune about a group of children going swimming on a hot summer's day at Wannsee. The title of the song has become a set phrase and synonym for going swimming...
Einsatzgruppen, ordinary German soldiers, and local collaborators. At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich outlined the...
the Nazis, regardless of the consequences. In January 1942, during the Wannsee Conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution...
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"exterminated". Heydrich arranged a meeting, held on 20 January 1942 at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin. Attended by top Nazi officials, it was used to outline...
and telling the true story of horse-drawn cabman Gustav Hartmann from Wannsee district who drove sensationally to Paris in 1928 to demonstrate against...
on 6 May 2009. Retrieved 31 May 2011. "The Holocaust: Re-examining The Wannsee Conference, Himmler's Appointments Book, and Tunisian Jews". Nizkor.org...
July 1941. Alfred Meyer served as his deputy and represented him at the Wannsee Conference. Another official of the Ministry, Georg Leibbrandt, also attended...
Emigration from the Reich was ultimately banned in October 1941. At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, the following data were presented: 147...
like a chain of lakes, the largest being the Tegeler See and the Großer Wannsee. A series of lakes also feeds into the upper Spree, which flows through...
ghettoisation of the remaining Hanoverian Jewish families began. Even before the Wannsee Conference, on 15 December 1941, the first Jews from Hanover were deported...
is one of the biggest university libraries in Germany. The books of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were destroyed during the Nazi book burnings, and...
question". Before the Final Solution was announced and organised during the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, some top Nazis had envisioned a territorial...
daughter of cavalry officer Franz von Günther and Ilse von Koch, born in Wannsee, Berlin, who spent her childhood between Berlin and the countryside. After...
November 2013. Adrian, Johanna. "A Jewish beginnings". Frankfurt/Oder: Institut für angewandte Geschichte. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013...
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