The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference
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Overview
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.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785336713 |
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| Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2017 |
| Pages: | 354 |
| Sales rank: | 326,160 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Christoph Kreutzmüller 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.
Table of Contents
List of FiguresForeword Otto Dov Kulka
Introduction: The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee Conference Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller
Chapter 1. Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference. Mark Roseman
Chapter 2. Otto Adolf Eichmann, Reich Main Security Office: The RSHA’s “Jewish Expert” Bettina Stangneth
Chapter 3. Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Main Security Office: 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, Reich Main Security Office: Academic, Ideological Warrior and Mass Murderer Peter Klein
Chapter 6. Heinrich Müller, Reich Main Security Office: The Archetypical Desktop Perpetrator Johannes Tuchel
Chapter 7. Eberhard Schöngarth, Reich Main Security Office: A Practitioner of Mass Murder Olaf Löschke
Chapter 8. Josef Bühler, 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. Gerhard Klopfer, Nazi Party Chancellery: A Nationalist Ideologue and a Respectable West German Markus Heckmann
Chapter 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Reich-Chancellery: A Prussian Civil Servant under the Nazi Regime Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber
Chapter 12. Georg Leibbrandt, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: An Academic Radical Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber
Chapter 13. Undersecretary Martin Luther: Defender of Foreign Office Prerogatives Christopher R. Browning
Chapter 14. Alfred Meyer, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: From German Monarchist to Nazi Desk Perpetrator Heinz-Jürgen Priamus
Chapter 15. Erich Neumann, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan: A Colorless, Compliant Prussian Christoph Kreutzmüller
Chapter 16. Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), Reich Interior Ministry: “A Legal Pedant” Hans-Christian Jasch
Index