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The Participants

The Participants

Hans-Christian Jasch | Christoph Kreutzmüller

(2017)

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Abstract

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.


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.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
The Participants iii
Contents v
Illustrations vii
Foreword xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference \r 21
Chapter 2. Otto Adolf Eichmann 40
Chapter 3. Reinhard Heydrich 57
Chapter 4. Otto Hofmann 75
Chapter 5. Rudolf Lange 95
Chapter 6. Heinrich Müller 111
Chapter 7. Eberhard Schöngarth 133
Chapter 8. Josef Bühler 152
Chapter 9. Roland Freisler 171
Chapter 10. Gerhard Klopfer 189
Chapter 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger 207
Chapter 12. Georg Leibbrandt 224
Chapter 13. Undersecretary Martin Luther 245
Chapter 14. Alfred Meyer 266
Chapter 15. Erich Neumann 283
Chapter 16. Wilhelm Stuckart (1902-1953) 301
Index 321