Participants
Subtitle: The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated; Berghahn Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781785336331
Subjects: Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945); War criminals; National socialism; Germany, politics and government, 1933-1945
Description: 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 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 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.