biographer David Cesarani agrees with Longerich's interpretation; he notes that Heydrich's main purpose was to impose his own authority on the various ministries and agencies involved in Jewish policy matters, and to avoid any repetition of the objections to the deportations and genocide from his military and civilian subordinates that had occurred earlier in the annihilation campaign. "The simplest, most decisive way that Heydrich could ensure the smooth flow of deportations", he writes, "was by asserting his total control over the fate of the Jews in the Reich and the east, and [by] cow[ing] other interested parties into toeing the line of the RSHA". House of the Wannsee Conference In 1965, historian Joseph Wulf proposed that the Wannsee House should be made into a Holocaust memorial and document centre, but the West German government was not interested at that time. The building was in use as a school, and funding was not available. Despondent at the failure of the project, and the West German government's failure to pursue and convict Nazi war criminals, Wulf committed suicide in 1974. On 20 January 1992, on the fiftieth anniversary of the conference, the site was finally opened as a Holocaust memorial and museum known as the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz (House of the Wannsee Conference). The museum also hosts permanent exhibits of texts and photographs that document events of the Holocaust and its planning. The Joseph Wulf Bibliothek / Mediothek on the second floor houses a large collection of books on the Nazi era, plus other materials such as microfilms and original Nazi documents. See also The Wannsee Conference – 1984 German-language TV film Fatherland – 1992 alternate history novel dealing in large part with the Wannsee Conference Fatherland – 1994 film adaptation of the homonymous novel. Conspiracy – 2001 English-language film Die Wannseekonferenz – The Wannsee Conference, 2022 German-language TV film Notes References Bibliography Published in the United States as The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration. New York: Picador, 2002. Further reading External links Official website of the House of the Wannsee Conference Educational and Memorial Site The Wannsee Conference on the Yad Vashem website (in German with Japanese subtitles) Minutes from the Wannsee conference, archived by the Progressive Review 1942 conferences 1942 in Europe 1942 in Germany 1942 in Judaism 1940s in Berlin Holocaust commemoration Holocaust historiography Planning the Holocaust Reinhard Heydrich Steglitz-Zehlendorf World War II conferences January 1942