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 Participantspresents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history.
List of Figures
Foreword
Otto Dov Kulka
Introduction:The Participants:The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzm?ller
Chapter 1.Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference.
Mark Roseman
Chapter 2.Otto Adolf Eichmann, Reich Main Security Office: The RSHAs 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 M?ller, Reich Main Security Office: The Archetypical Desktop Perpetrator
Johannes Tuchel
Chapter 7.Eberhard Sch?ngarth, Reich Main Security Office: A Practitioner of Mass Murder
Olaf L?schl/
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