The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration - Hardcover

Roseman, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805068104 ISBN 13: 9780805068108

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, 2002

Synopsis

Attempts to unravel the many complex mysteries surrounding a document, called the "Secret Reich matter," created by a group of Nazi leaders in 1942 at a lavish villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, that tallied up the Jews in Europe, classified half and quarter Jews, and ordered the senseless slaughter of thousands of Jews as the "final solution to the Jewish Question."

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Review

" Disturbing and thought-provoking...A riveting picture of genocide as afterthought, a bureaucratic codification that made up German minds predisposed to accept the decision." -- "The News Journal" (Delaware)
" Roseman sets out not to solve this mystery [of the Conference] so much as to anatomize it, to dissect the thinking of the key players and to present the central themes, ideas, and intentions of the day. He does so with the same determination and respect that he brought to "A Past in Hiding,"" -- "Los Angeles Times"
" A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as ' perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.' " -- Richard J. Evans, author of" Lying About Hitler"
“Disturbing and thought-provoking...A riveting picture of genocide as afterthought, a bureaucratic codification that made up German minds predisposed to accept the decision.” —"The News Journal" (Delaware)
“Roseman sets out not to solve this mystery [of the Conference] so much as to anatomize it, to dissect the thinking of the key players and to present the central themes, ideas, and intentions of the day. He does so with the same determination and respect that he brought to "A Past in Hiding".” —"Los Angeles Times"
“A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as ‘perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.’” —Richard J. Evans, author of" Lying About Hitler"
"Disturbing and thought-provoking...A riveting picture of genocide as afterthought, a bureaucratic codification that made up German minds predisposed to accept the decision." --"The News Journal" (Delaware)
"Roseman sets out not to solve this mystery [of the Conference] so much as to anatomize it, to dissect the thinking of the key players and to present the central themes, ideas, and intentions of the day. He does so with the same determination and respect that he brought to "A Past in Hiding."" --"Los Angeles Times"
"A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as 'perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.'" --Richard J. Evans, author of" Lying About Hitler"

Disturbing and thought-provoking...A riveting picture of genocide as afterthought, a bureaucratic codification that made up German minds predisposed to accept the decision. "The News Journal (Delaware)"

Roseman sets out not to solve this mystery [of the Conference] so much as to anatomize it, to dissect the thinking of the key players and to present the central themes, ideas, and intentions of the day. He does so with the same determination and respect that he brought to "A Past in Hiding." "Los Angeles Times"

A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.' "Richard J. Evans, author of Lying About Hitler""

"Disturbing and thought-provoking...A riveting picture of genocide as afterthought, a bureaucratic codification that made up German minds predisposed to accept the decision." --The News Journal (Delaware)

"Roseman sets out not to solve this mystery [of the Conference] so much as to anatomize it, to dissect the thinking of the key players and to present the central themes, ideas, and intentions of the day. He does so with the same determination and respect that he brought to A Past in Hiding." --Los Angeles Times

"A cool, judicious, and well-informed guide to the meeting whose minutes were described by the war crimes prosecutors at Nuremberg as 'perhaps the most shameful document in modern history.'" --Richard J. Evans, author of Lying About Hitler

About the Author

Author of A Past in Hiding and winner of the Fraenkel Prize in contemporary history and Wingate Literary Prize for nonfiction, Mark Roseman teaches at the University of Southampton and has published widely on German history. He lives in Southampton, England.

Edition details

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805068104
• ISBN 13: 9780805068108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211