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Hans-Christian Jasch is the Executive Director of the Memorial and Educational Site of the Wannsee Conference. He has authored the definitive study, published in 2012, of Wilhelm Stuckart, state secretary in the Reich Interior Ministry, and the role of the civil service in Jewish policy.

Christoph Kreutzmüller is a curator at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Before joining the museum he coordinated two extensive research projects on the fate of Jewish-owned businesses in Berlin during the Third Reich and on Jews in Berlin from 1918 to 1938 at Humboldt University of Berlin. His acclaimed study Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity 19301945 was published in 2015 by Berghahn Books.

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While the Wannsee-Conference is widely seen to be a turning point in holocaust history, its participants have been often overlooked Unique glimpse of the individual Nazi perpetrators Sociology of Nazi administration, its networks and deadlocks

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List of Figures

Foreword
Otto Dov Kulka

Introduction: The Participants**:** The Men of the Wannsee Conference
Hans-Christian Jasch and Christoph Kreutzmüller

Chapter 1. Biographical Approaches and the Wannsee Conference.
Mark Roseman

Chapter 2. Otto Adolf Eichmann, Reich Main Security Office: The RSHA's Jewish Expert
Bettina Stangneth

Chapter 3. Reinhard Heydrich, Reich Main Security Office: The Nazi Terror Enforcer
Robert Gerwarth

Chapter 4. Otto Hofmann, SS Race and Settlement Main Office. A Pragmatic Enforcer of Racial Policy?
Isabel Heinemann

Chapter 5. Dr. Rudolf Lange, Reich Main Security Office: Academic, Ideological Warrior and Mass Murderer
Peter Klein

Chapter 6. Heinrich Müller, Reich Main Security Office: The Archetypical Desktop Perpetrator
Johannes Tuchel

Chapter 7. Eberhard Schöngarth, Reich Main Security Office: A Practitioner of Mass Murder
Olaf Löschke

Chapter 8. Josef Bühler, State Secretary for the General Government. A Behind-the-Scenes Perpetrator
Ingo Loose

Chapter 9. Roland Freisler, Reich Ministry of Justice: Hitler's Political Soldier
Silke Struck

Chapter 10. Gerhard Klopfer, Nazi Party Chancellery: A Nationalist Ideologue and a Respectable West German
Markus Heckmann

Chapter 11. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Reich-Chancellery: A Prussian Civil Servant under the Nazi Regime
Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber

Chapter 12. Georg Leibbrandt, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: An Academic Radical
Stefan Paul-Jacobs and Lore Kleiber

Chapter 13. Undersecretary Martin Luther: Defender of Foreign Office Prerogatives
Christopher R. Browning

Chapter 14. Alfred Meyer, Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories: From German Monarchist to Nazi Desk Perpetrator
Heinz-Jürgen Priamus

Chapter 15. Erich Neumann, Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan: A Colorless, Compliant Prussian
Christoph Kreutzmüller

Chapter 16. Wilhelm Stuckart (19021953), Reich Interior Ministry: A Legal Pedant
Hans-Christian Jasch

Index