EJP | News | Germany | German Wannsee museum opens display on Nazi past

A new exhibition on the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews opened on Thursday at the Wannsee Villa in Berlin, where they signed off on Hitler’s plans for the genocide in January 1942. The permanent exhibition takes up 15 rooms in the villa and uses 150 documents, many found in eastern Europe, and some 600 photographs to recount the plight of Jews from outbreaks of anti-Semitism in 19th century Europe through to Hitler’s "final solution". "We want to show the reasoning and the motivations of the institutions and the people who took part" in the killing of six million Jews, the director of the museum, Norbert Kampe, said.