The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration

Roseman, Mark

ISBN 10: 0312422342 / ISBN 13: 9780312422349

Published by Picador (edition First Edition), 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration
• Publisher: Picador (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312422342
• ISBN 13: 9780312422349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

On January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the "Wannsee Protocol," which laid the groundwork for a "final solution to the Jewish Question." This Protocol has always mystified us. How should we understand this calm, business-like discussion of holocaust? And why was the meeting necessary? Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been shot by squads in Russia or gassed in the camp at Chelmno. Mark Roseman seeks to unravel this double mystery and explain how it was that on a snowy day, fifteen well-educated young men met to talk murder.

About the Author

Mark Roseman is the author of A Past in Hiding and The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution. He is the recipient of a number of prestigious prizes, including the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Fraenkel Prize in contemporary history, and one of Germany’s foremost literary prizes, the Geschwister Scholl Prize. He teaches at Indiana University, where he is a distinguished professor and director of the Jewish Studies program.