Wannsee
- Author Peter Longerich
- Narrator Antony Ferguson
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 4 hours and 41 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre European history, History, Second World War, The Holocaust.
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What to expect
The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust
On January 20, 1942, fifteen 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.
The exquisite position by the lake, the imposing driveway up to the villa, culminating in a generously sized roundabout in front of the house, the expansive, carefully landscaped park, the generous suite of rooms that opened on to the park and the lake, the three-level terrace that stretched the entire garden side of the house, and the winter garden with its marble fountain, all give today’s visitor to the villa a good idea of its owner’s aspiration to build a sophisticated, almost palatial structure as a testament to his cultivation and worldly success.
But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen 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 were to be affected, followed by a discussion of how upwards of eleven million people were to be deported and subjected to the toughest form of forced labor and, following on from this a discussion, of how the survivors of this forced labor as well as those not capable of it were ultimately to be killed.
The next item on the agenda was breakfast.
Critics Review
“A masterful crash-course on the decision-making process of the Holocaust.”
“Longerich’s in-depth deconstruction yields unparalleled insight into the Nazi regime’s blood-soaked goals.”
“An austerely sober, concise, yet comprehensive account…painstakingly precise.”
“Remarkable in its detail and depth. His book will remain indispensable to anyone interested in the topic.”
“Offers the opportunity to examine differences of interpretation of the Wannsee Conference and the wider background of Nazi Germany’s last steps to the extermination of the Jews of Europe.”
“Provides context and analysis to that important document to plausibly explain the convergence of diverse decisions by components of the Nazi regime into the enormity of a radical solution—the Holocaust.”
“This scholarly account of a handful of Nazi murderers goes as far as it can in exposing the kind of thing that happens when the moral structure collapses, and in its fine and unstated way it is also a penance.”
“For Holocaust scholars, this a must-read. A well-researched study of the meeting that determined many major decisions about the Holocaust.”
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