1941-45

  • Operation Barbarossa

    • seek out lebensraum for the master German race
  • Heydrich instruction to Einatsugruppen commanders

    • leading communist officials, jews in the service of the party or the state and other extremist elements were to be executed and pogroms by local people were to be encouraged
  • Heydrich issued that "all jews" among Russian PoWs were to executed by the SS

  • The Wannsee Conference

    • intended to resolve the logistical arrangments for a programme aimed at a 'complete solution of the jewish question' -chaired by heydrich
    • atmosphere of agreement on the part of the participants,
  • Hitler secret directive insiting that the Bloshevik/Jewish intelligentsia in the USSR tmust be eliminated

  • Operation Reinhard

    Gassing of 2 million jews in the central government
  • The End of Aushwitz

    -Himmler issued an order forbidding the 'further annihalataion of Jews"
    - not sure why
    - could be de to labour shortages