Jeffrey Goldberg, Columnist

Seeing Syria Reflected in the Wannsee

There is a quotation on the wall of Wannsee House that has helped me to clarify my thinking on Syria, if only just a bit.
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There is a quotation on the wall of Wannsee House -- the grand mansion on the outskirts of Berlin that was the location, in January 1942, of perhaps the most sinister meeting in the history of the Third Reich -- that has helped me to clarify my thinking on Syria, if only just a bit.

It was at Wannsee that Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann, along with 13 other Nazi functionaries, formalized plans for the Final Solution.