The Participants
The Men of the Wannsee Conference
1st Edition
Published on 4. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
354 pages
978-1-78533-671-3 (ISBN)
Description
On January 20, 1942, fifteen senior German government officials attended a short meeting in Berlin to discuss the deportation and murder of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite lasting only a few hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, exemplifying the labor division and burueaucratization that made the "Final Solution" possible. Yet while the conference itself has been exhaustively researched, many of its attendees remain relatively obscure. Combining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, The Participants presents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-671-3 (9781785336713)
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Persons
Hans-Christian Jasch is the Executive Director of the Memorial and Educational Site of the Wannsee Conference. He has authored an acclaimed study, published in 2012, of Wilhelm Stuckart, state secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry, and the role of the civil service in Jewish policy. Christoph Kreutzmuller is a curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Before joining the museum he coordinated two extensive research projects on the fate of Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin during the Third Reich and on Jews in Berlin from 1918 to 1938 at Humboldt University of Berlin. His acclaimed study Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 1930-1945 was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books.
Content
List of Figures Foreword The Participants: The Men Who Attended the Wannsee Conference Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmueller Chapter 1. Biographical approaches and the Wannsee Conference. Introduction Mark Roseman Chapter 2. Otto Adolf Eichmann. The RSHA's "Jewish Expert" Bettina Stangneth Chapter 3. Reinhard Heydrich. The Nazi Terror Enforcer Robert Gerwarth Chapter 4. Otto Hofmann. SS Race and Settlement Main Office. A pragmatic enforcer of racial policy? Isabel Heinemann Chapter 5. Dr. Rudolf Lange. Academic, Committed Warmonger and Mass Murderer Peter Klein Chapter 6. Heinrich Mueller. Head of Department IV of the Reich Main Security Office. "Gestapo Mueller" Johannes Tuchel Chapter 7. Dr. Eberhard Schoengarth. Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the General Government. A practitioner of mass murder Olaf Loeschke Chapter 8. Josef Buehler. State Secretary for the General Government. A behind-the-scenes perpetrator Ingo Loose Chapter 9. Roland Freisler. Reich Ministry of Justice. Hitler's "political soldier" Silke Struck Chapter 10. Dr. Gerhard Klopfer. Permanent Secretary in the Nazi Party Chancellery. A nationalist ideologue and a respectable West German Markus Heckmann Chapter 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger. A Prussian Civil Servant under the Nazi Regime Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber Chapter 12. Georg Leibbrandt. Head of Department I (Politics) in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber Chapter 13. Undersecretary Martin Luther. Defender of Foreign Office Prerogatives Christopher R. Browning Chapter 14. Alfred Meyer. From Middle-Class Imperialist to Nazi Desk Perpetrator Heinz-Juergen Priamus Chapter 15. Erich Neumann. Undersecretary to the Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan. A colorless, compliant Prussian Christoph Kreutzmueller Chapter 16. Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart (1902-1953). State Secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry. "A Legal Pedant" Hans-Christian Jasch Bibliography Index