I am qualified to write book on Wannsee Conference

From the legal perspective, Wannsee Conference was criminal conspiracy to commit mass murder. Serial mass murder (in this case, genocide), to be more precise. Cut and dry, plain and simple, loud and clear. Consequently, any book on Wannsee Conference is (inevitably) a criminal investigation.

I have neither any kind of training nor experience in criminal investigation – to my knowledge, none of the authors of any other book on that event does. Still, I am confident that I am perfectly qualified to write this book.

I am perfectly qualified because every criminal investigation is a knowledge management project. More specifically, knowledge mining project. Its objective is to mine (extract) knowledge about the individual(s) who committed the crime (and the crime itself, of course) from a pile of raw data and information.

More specifically, detectives working on a homicide case must (1) collect all relevant raw data and information – relevant being the key word; (2) extract the necessary knowledge from them; (3) structure this knowledge in the most efficient and digestible way; and (4) present this knowledge to judge and jury to prove the culpability of the defendant beyond the reasonable doubt.

Criminal profilers working on a criminal case must (1) collect all relevant raw data and information – relevant being the key word; (2) extract the necessary knowledge from them; (3) structure this knowledge in the most efficient and digestible way; and (4) present this knowledge – about the perpetrator and a victim – to homicide detectives (and subsequently to judge and jury).

Hence, both are the jobs for the knowledge management professional. Which is exactly my key area of expertise. Knowledge management tools, methods and technologies are applicable to any and every subject matter – and criminal investigation is no exception.

So I am, indeed, perfectly qualified to write this book – much more qualified than any other author (because none of them has knowledge on experience in knowledge management).

The latter becomes immediately evident to reader of every book on Wannsee Conference – or just about any history book for that matter.