Acknowledgments

ix

List of Illustrations

xi

Introduction

1

I.

The Wannsee Villa and Fritz Haber

3

II.

Friedrich Minoux Buys the Wannsee Villa and Enters Politics

17

III.

Aryanization, Friedrich Minoux, and the Plundering of the German Jews

36

IV.

Friedrich Minoux Defrauds the Berlin Gas Company

48

V.

Reinhard Heydrich and the Nordhav Foundation

53

VI.

Planning to Murder the Jews of Europe

64

VII.

Ordinary Germans, the Catholic Church, and the Holocaust

109

VIII.

The Wannsee Villa After the Wannsee Conference

131

Appendix A

A Jew Defined

137

Appendix B

Letters

140

Appendix C

The Wannsee Protocol

146

Appendix D

Biographies of Wannsee Conference Participants

154

Appendix E

Eichmann's Testimony in Jerusalem About the Conference

174

Appendix F

Notes on the Film "The Wannsee Conference"

180

Chapter Notes

181

Bibliography

187

Index

191