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Operation Barbarossa
- seek out lebensraum for the master German race
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Hitler secret directive insiting that the Bloshevik/Jewish intelligentsia in the USSR tmust be eliminated
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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
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Heydrich issued that "all jews" among Russian PoWs were to executed by the SS
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Operation Reinhard
Gassing of 2 million jews in the central government -
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,
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The End of Aushwitz
-Himmler issued an order forbidding the 'further annihalataion of Jews"
- not sure why
- could be de to labour shortages