The Wannsee Conference is an event that took place during World War II on January 20, 1942 in a small suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. This conference was organized by Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Nazi Security Police (otherwise known as the SS), and was attended by many high-ranking officials of the Nazi regime. The conference was organized to discuss and implement "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question" regarding the Jewish population in Europe. The minutes of this conference were written down and are now known as the Wannsee Protocol. Even before the Wannsee Conference took place, Jews were already being executed by the Einsatzgruppen, or otherwise known as the mobile extermination units of the SS. Anti-Semitism and the persecution of Europe's Jewish population became more common during the Nazis' rise to power in Europe. the early 1900s. In 1920 the Nazis published the party program, consisting of 25 points. For example, point four states “Only those who are our compatriots can become citizens. Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our fellow countrymen. Therefore no Jew can be a fellow countryman." The goal of the Nazis was to create a dominant race throughout Europe called the “Aryan race” or Germanic race. To implement this "superior race" plan, the Nazis declared that they wanted to segregate the groups that the party considered dangerous and inferior to society. These groups included European Jews, gypsies, the handicapped (both mentally and physically), and those who were deaf and blind. The Nazi government's main target was still the Jews in Europe, which they regarded "not as a religious group, but as a poisonous "race", which "lived off other races and weakened them". As a result, many Europeans... half paper ...... responsible for the war crime of the Holocaust. Even before the Wannsee Conference took place, Jews in German-occupied European countries were already being murdered at the hands of Nazi members by the Nazis as a way to get all members of the Nazi Party and German-occupied countries on the same page so that they could successfully implement their “final solution” and rid all of Europe of the “Jewish problem”. The Wannsee Protocol played an important role in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, as according to the History Channel "the minutes of this conference were preserved with meticulous care, which later provided key evidence during the Nuremberg war crimes trials Nuremberg". only because of the Wannsee Conference did more people die, although we know that the total number of people killed during the Holocaust was over six million.