Wendigo
Banned
How unique in historical terms was the Wannsee Conference where top Reich officials discussed and implemented plans to exterminate every last Jew in Europe under their control in a methodical and efficient manner?
Have other genocides began with the same level of calculated/emotionless planning to eradicate every member of a particular group as the Jewish Holocaust IOTL?
I mean they literally kept minutes of it and were discussing the extermination of an entire 11 million strong ethnic group in blunt terms and when they finished they relaxed and drank Cognac. They had the numbers down for every nation in Europe (X Jews in France, Y Jews in Poland etc.) Mass murder was a matter of paperwork to them, requiring as much emotion and thought as filing taxes. The fate of an entire race of people was decided in a few hours which to me seems unprecedented in history but I could be wrong.
Have other genocides began with the same level of calculated/emotionless planning to eradicate every member of a particular group as the Jewish Holocaust IOTL?
I mean they literally kept minutes of it and were discussing the extermination of an entire 11 million strong ethnic group in blunt terms and when they finished they relaxed and drank Cognac. They had the numbers down for every nation in Europe (X Jews in France, Y Jews in Poland etc.) Mass murder was a matter of paperwork to them, requiring as much emotion and thought as filing taxes. The fate of an entire race of people was decided in a few hours which to me seems unprecedented in history but I could be wrong.