page_title: Joseph Wulf
section_title: Proposal
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Wulf / Wannsee memorial / Proposal
caption_attribution_description: English: Manor in Berlin-Wannsee, Germany - also known as the House of the Wannsee Conference Deutsch: Villa in Berlin-Wannsee, Deutschland - bekannt als Haus der Wannseekonferenz
context_page_description: Joseph Wulf was a German-Polish Jewish historian. A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he was the author of several books about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including Das Dritte Reich und die Juden; Heinrich Himmler; and Martin Bormann: Hitlers Schatten. The House of the Wannsee Conference museum in Berlin houses the Joseph Wulf Library in his honour.
context_section_description: In 1965 Wulf proposed that the villa in Berlin in which the 1942 Wannsee Conference was held should be made into a Holocaust memorial and research centre. During the Wannsee Conference, Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, had outlined to several leading Nazis, in somewhat coded language, the German government's plan to enact the Final Solution. In August 1966 Wulf co-founded, with Friedrich Zipfel and Peter Heilmann, the International Document Center Organization for the Study of National Socialism and Its Aftermath, and began campaigning to have it housed in the Wannsee Conference villa.
  Wulf abandoned his efforts in 1971. The German government was not interested in moving forward with the idea at that time. The building was in use as a school, and funding was not available. The issue of the memorial was so politically sensitive in Germany that Wulf apparently needed police protection because of threats. Klaus Schütz, then mayor of West Berlin, said he did not want any "macabre cult site".
caption: Am Großen Wannsee 56–58, Berlin
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