Wannsee - The Road to the Final Solution

The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the Holocaust.

List of contents

• Prologue


• 1: The Background to the conference: the 'Removal of the Jews', 1933-1941


• 2: The Wannsee Conference


• 3: The 'final solution' becomes a reality


• 4: Conclusion: The Wannsee Conference in historical context


• Appendix


• Abbreviations


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Peter Longerich was until 2015 Professor of Modern German History at Royal Holloway University of London, and was a founder of the College's Holocaust Research Centre. An internationally renowned authority on the Nazis, his previous publications include Holocaust: The Nazi Murder and Persecution of the Jews (OUP 2010), Himmler (OUP 2012), and Hitler: A Life (OUP 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Longerich, Peter Longerich
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198834052
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883405-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater