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The Participants - The Men of the Wannsee Conference (Hardcover)
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The Participants - The Men of the Wannsee Conference (Hardcover)
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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-Hauptsturmbannfuhrer Karl Astel as rector, it developed
into a model Nazi university. Race researcher Hans Gunther 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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