{"product_id":"the-wannsee-conference-and-the-final-solution-a-reconsideration","title":"The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking investigation into the mysterious gathering where the Nazi plan for genocide was reputedly decided.  In early 1947  American officials in Germany stumbled across a document. Entitled \"Secret Reich matter \" it summarized the results of a meeting of top Nazi officials that took place on January 20  1942  in a grand villa on the shore of Berlins Lake Wannsee.  On one level  this document offered clarity: known as the Wannsee Protocol (and included here in full)  it tallied up the Jews in Europe  carefully classified half and quarter Jews  and above all laid the groundwork for a \"final solution to the Jewish Question.\" Yet the Protocol  among the most shameful documents in history  remains deeply mysterious. How can we understand this businesslike discussion of genocide? And why was the meeting necessary? Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been shot in Russia or gassed in the camp at Chelmno. Test murders had been carried out in Auschwitz. Indeed  the most remarkable thing about the Wannsee Conference  is that we do not know why it took place.  Mark Roseman  author of the acclaimed A Past in Hiding  seeks to unravel this double mystery and to explain how it was that on a snowy January day in 1942  a group of educated young men met to discuss the systematic slaughter of a people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946405425205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805068104","price":46.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805068108_409d8fa0-342e-4203-bee2-9e431a389f9a.jpg?v=1770141892","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-wannsee-conference-and-the-final-solution-a-reconsideration","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}