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1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Participants -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference -- Chapter 2. Otto Adolf Eichmann -- Chapter 3. Reinhard Heydrich -- Chapter 4. Otto Hofmann -- Chapter 5. Rudolf Lange -- Chapter 6. Heinrich MÃơller -- Chapter 7. Eberhard SchÃœngarth -- Chapter 8. Josef BÃơhler -- Chapter 9. Roland Freisler -- Chapter 10. Gerhard Klopfer -- Chapter 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger -- Chapter 12. Georg Leibbrandt -- Chapter 13. Undersecretary Martin Luther -- Chapter 14. Alfred Meyer Chapter 15. Erich Neumann -- Chapter 16. Wilhelm Stuckart (1902-1953) |
| Summary |
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. On 20 January 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 less than two hours, the Wannsee Conference is today understood as a signal episode in the history of the Holocaust, exemplifying the labor division and bureaucratization that made the "Final Solution" possible. Yet while the conference itself has been exhaustively researched, many of its attendees remain relatively obscure. From the introduction: Ten of the fifteen participants had been to university. Eight of them had even been awarded doctorates, although it should be pointed out that it was considerably easier to gain a doctorate in law or philosophy in the 1920s than it is today. Eight of them had studied law, which, then as now, was not uncommon in the top positions of public administration. Many first turned to radical politics as members of Freikorps or student fraternities. Three of the participants (Freisler, Klopfer and Lange) had studied in Jena. In the 1920s, the University of Jena was a fertile breeding ground for nationalist thinking. With dedicated Nazi, race researcher and later SS-Hauptsturmbannführer Karl Astel as rector, it developed into a model Nazi university. Race researcher Hans Günther also taught there. Others, such as Reinhard Heydrich, joined the SS because they had failed to launch careers elsewhere, and only became radical once they were members of the self-acclaimed Nazi elite order. |
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Wannsee-Konferenz (1942 : Berlin, Germany)
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Wannsee-Konferenz. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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War criminals -- Germany -- Biography.
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War criminals. |
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Germany. |
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Biographies.
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Nazis -- Biography.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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1933-1945 |
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Nazis -- Biography. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY -- Holocaust. |
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Nazis. |
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War -- Causes. |
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Jasch, Hans-Christian, 1973- editor.
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Kreutzmüller, Christoph, editor.
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Teilnehmer. English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: [New York] : Berghahn Books, [2017] 9781785336331 (DLC) 2017017956 |
| ISBN |
9781785336713 electronic book |
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1785336711 electronic book |
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9781785336348 electronic book |
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1785336347 electronic book |
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9781785336331 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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