Wannsee : the road to the final solution
Longerich, Peter2021
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On 20 January 1942, 15 men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the 15 had come in January 1942: the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. According to the surviving records of the meeting, items on the agenda included the precise definition of exactly which group of people was to be affected, followed by a discussion of how upwards of 11 million people were to be deported and subjected to the toughest form of forced labour, and following on from this a discussion of how the survivors of this forced labour as well as those not capable of it were ultimately to be killed.
Main title:
Wannsee : the road to the final solution / Peter Longerich ; translated by Lesley Sharpe, Jeremy Noakes.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Collation:
192 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780198834045 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5318940.531
LC class:
D804.3
Local class:
940.531
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2984985