The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman

The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration by Mark Roseman attempts to explain how exactly the conference should be considered in the wider perspective of the Holocaust. The author suggests that instead of being important for decisions made at the conference it was more a signpost on the way to the final solution.

The conference has received much notoriety because of the Wannsee protocol which was written by Adolf Eichmann. It is included in its entirety and an appendix. The English translation provided in the records of the Nuremberg Tribunal has been cleaned up. The book provides a contextual analysis of the document as well as the events leading up to and following the conference. We also get some discussion of Holocaust historiography.

Extensive endnotes round out this superb book on the Holocaust.

Highly recommended!

Is available through Abebooks.


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