The Participants

The Men of the Wannsee Conference
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-671-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

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. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jasch, Hans-Christian

Kreutzmüller, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Foreword

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jasch, Hans-Christian
Hans-Christian Jasch is the Executive Director of the Memorial and Educational Site of the Wannsee Conference. He has authored the definitive study, published in 2012, of Wilhelm Stuckart, state secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry, and the role of the civil service in Jewish policy.

Kreutzmüller, Christoph
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.

Hans-Christian Jasch is the Executive Director of the Memorial and Educational Site of the Wannsee Conference. He has authored the definitive study, published in 2012, of Wilhelm Stuckart, state secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry, and the role of the civil service in Jewish policy.