{"product_id":"the-participants-the-men-of-the-wannsee-conference-9781785336713","title":"The Participants: The Men of the Wannsee","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eCombining accessible prose with scholarly rigor, \u003cem\u003eThe Participants \u003c\/em\u003epresents fascinating profiles of the all-too-human men who implemented some of the most inhuman acts in history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrom the introduction:\u003cbr\u003e \tTen 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eForeword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOtto Dov Kulka\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Participants\u003cstrong\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Men of the Wannsee Conference\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference.\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMark Roseman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Otto Adolf Eichmann, Reich Main Security Office: The RSHA’s “Jewish Expert”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Bettina Stangneth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Main Security Office: The Nazi Terror Enforcer\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Robert Gerwarth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Otto Hofmann, SS Race and Settlement Main Office. A Pragmatic Enforcer of Racial Policy?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIsabel Heinemann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dr. Rudolf Lange, Reich Main Security Office: Academic, Ideological Warrior and Mass Murderer\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Peter Klein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Heinrich Müller, Reich Main Security Office: The Archetypical Desktop Perpetrator\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohannes Tuchel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Eberhard Schöngarth, Reich Main Security Office: A Practitioner of Mass Murder\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOlaf Löschke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Josef Bühler, State Secretary for the General Government. A Behind-the-Scenes Perpetrator\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIngo Loose\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eRoland Freisler, Reich Ministry of Justice: Hitler’s “Political Soldier”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSilke Struck\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gerhard Klopfer, Nazi Party Chancellery: A Nationalist Ideologue and a Respectable West German\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarkus Heckmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Reich-Chancellery: A Prussian Civil Servant under the Nazi Regime\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Georg Leibbrandt, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: An Academic Radical\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Undersecretary Martin Luther: Defender of Foreign Office Prerogatives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristopher R. Browning\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eAlfred Meyer, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: From German Monarchist to Nazi Desk Perpetrator\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHeinz-Jürgen Priamus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eErich Neumann, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan: A Colorless, Compliant Prussian\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristoph Kreutzmüller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e Wilhelm Stuckart (1902–1953), Reich Interior Ministry: “A Legal Pedant”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHans-Christian Jasch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042401616215,"sku":"9781785336713","price":18.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785336713.jpg?v=1750954042","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-participants-the-men-of-the-wannsee-conference-9781785336713","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}