Theodor Dannecker : ein Funktionär der "Endlösung"

Using Dannecker's case, profiles and analyzes the motives of Nazi "Judenberater" ("advisers on Jewish topics") who functioned in the SS and the SA. States that the focus on Dannecker facilitates the presentation of the order, method, and structure of the Nazi regime, seen from the point of view of a subordinate functionary who was directly involved in the annihilation of European Jewry. Dannecker (1913-1945), who conducted the deportation of thousands of Jews from France, Bulgaria, Italy, and Hungary, was one of Eichmann's closest collaborators from 1937. He had turned to the NSDAP between 1930-32 due to difficult personal and economic circumstances. The party promised work, money, and better conditions, while blaming the Jews for the defeat in World War I and for the death of many German soldiers; it offered lower-middle class people, like Dannecker, new self-confidence, a career, power, and a simplistic ideology to identify with. Dannecker committed suicide in an American POW camp in December 1945. 1. Aufl. 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm