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AN UNCOMPROMISING GENERATION Google Original frcm oig1t1ze-0 by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA GEORGE L. MOSSE SERIES IN MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Advisory Board Steven E. Aschheim Stanley G. Payne Hebrew University ofJ erusalem University of Wisconsin-l\'1adison Annette Becker Anson Rabinbach Universite Paris X-Nanterre Princeton University Christopher Browning David J. Sorkin University of North Carolina at University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapel Hill John S. Tortorice Natalie Zemon Davis University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Toronto Joan Wallach Scott Saul Friedlander Institute for Advanced Study University ofC alifornia, Los Angeles Jay Winter Emilio Gentile Yale University Universittl di Roma "La Sapienza" Gert Hekma University ofA 1nsterdam Google Origlr.al from 01g1tizea by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA An Uncompromising Generation The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office Michael Wildt Translated by TOM LAMPERT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Google Original from 0191t1zed by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, which is funded by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The publication of this work was supported by a grant from the George L. Mosse Program at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. 'fhe Universit)' of Wisconsin Press 19,10 Monroe Street. }rd ~loor 1\-tadison. Wiscon.sin 53711.2059 U\\'Press. wise. rdu 3 Henrietta Street l.~>nc.fon wc:1E 8Lu, F.ngland eurospanbookstort.c.om Originally published by Hamburger Edition as (;e11eratio11 elf!$ U>rbt0ilit1gtf!n: Das Fiihrungskorps ,·/cs Rticl1ssicht·rhtitshaupt11111tes () 200} Hamburger Edition Translation copyright() 2009 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin Sy<tem All rights reserved No part of this publication ma)' be reproduced. stored in a retrieval systC'm, or tra.nsmitted. in an)' format or by any means. digital. tltctroni(, mechanical, photocopying, recording. or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the Univtrsi1y of \4/is<onsin Prrss. except in the case of brief quotations en'lbedded in critical articles and revie\,'S. s 4 } 2 Printed in the United States of An'lt'rica LlllRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING·IN·PVBLTCATION OATA Wildt, Michael. 1954- IGeneration des Unbeding1en. English I An uncompr<.,mising generation : the Nati leadership of the Reich Sc..:uri1y ~t;iin Otfi~e I Michael Wildt; translated by Tom Lampert. p. cm.-(Ge<,rgc L. Mosse stries in modern European cultural ;;ind intcllt·ctual hisl<.)ry) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBPI 978-0-.99-23464-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Nationa1sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schut1..statl'el. Reichssicherht"itshauptantt- 1"tistory. 1. (.lcrmany-Politics and government-19~3-1945. 3. National socialism-l·tist<)ry. 4. Nazis-Biography. I. Lampert, Tom. 1962- II. Title. 111. Series: George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history. 0"25}.6.ws513 1009 363.20943 '09044- dc22 2009014310 Google Original frcm 01gitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA For LENI YAHIL gle Or gnat trcm GoL 01g1t" ,, UNIVERSITY OF CJl.LI FORNIA .J - - I - . . ' • .. .'· . ' ., . " - . • Oro I !Tom UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTENTS List of Illustrations IX List of Abbreviations XI Acknowledgments XIII Introduction to the English Edition 3 PART 1. GENERATION The Experience of War 1 21 Student Radicalism 2 37 3 A Young German Elite: The Black Hand in Leipzig 56 81 4 1933 PART 2. INSTITUTION Conceptualizing the Reich Security Main Office 125 5 6 Structure and Staff 165 PART 3. WAR 7 Poland, 1939: The Experience of Racist Mass Murder 217 8 Expulsion, 1940 242 9 Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union 268 10 Zenith and Decline 308 Google On9inal fron1 Vll 01g1tlz•dby UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Contents VIJl PART 4. EPILOGUE Postwar: Back in Civil Society 11 12 Prosecution Conclusion 425 Notes 449 Index 541 Google Original from 0191t1zed by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ILLUSTRATIONS • Photos Otto Ohlendorf 4 Bruno Streckenbach 22 Dr. Karl Gengenbach 46 Erich Ehrlinger 49 Dr. Martin Sandberger 51 Dr. Heinz Grafe 57 Dr. Wilhelm Spengler 61 Dr. Erwin Weinmann 103 Dr. Hans Nockemann 107 Reinhard Heydrich 132 Werner Best 135 Walter Schellenberg 154 ArthurNebe 173 Paul Werner 179 Dr. Walter Heess 183 Heinrich Millier 188 Dr. Fritz Rang 194 Bernhard Baatz 195 Franz Alfred Six 199 Dr. Rudolf Levin 202 Dr. Hans Rossner 204 Heinz Jost 206 Albert Filbert 206 Dr. Heinz Hummitzsch 220 Dr. Siegfried Engel 252 Dr. Helmut Knochen 256 . Google Ong1r.al frcm IX 0101uz by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA x Illustrations Herbert Hagen 257 Dr. Theodor Paeffgen 263 Walter Huppenkothen 330 Charts Structure of the RSHA, March 1941 12 Institutional Precursors of the RSHA 141 .. . • Google Origiral frcn1 0191t1zea by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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