A ranar 20 ga watan Janairun 1942, yayin da yakin da Nazi Jamus ke yi ya ragu saboda gazawar Operation Barbarossa, da shigar da Amurka cikin yakin duniya na biyu, da kuma mutuwar Walther von Reichenau, an gudanar da wani taro don sanin hanyar da gwamnati za ta aiwatar da manufofin Adolf Hitler, cewa yankunan Jamus na tasiri ya kamata ya zama kyauta daga Yahudawa, ciki har da wadanda ke cikin yankunan da aka mallaka na
Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Czechoslovakia da kuma Faransa. Kamar yadda fim ya buɗe, jami'ai daban-daban daga hukumomin Jamus daban-daban sun isa kuma sun haɗu a wani ƙauyen tafkin a gundumar Berlin ta Wannsee. Daga cikin wadanda suka halarci taron: