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Reinhard Heydrich was an important figure in the Nazi rise to power during World War II. He was responsible for the creation of the SS Security Service and helped coordinate the Final Solution, which aimed to exterminate individuals of Jewish descent in Europe and the Soviet Union.
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What was the meeting to decide how to kill Jew's in World War 2?
The Wannsee Confrence chaired by Reinhard Heydrich.
Why did Heydrich bring together Nazi officials at the Wannsee conference?
In short the Wannsee conference was held to set in motion the final solution. Heydrich was tasked as chief executer of disposing of Germany's Jewish problem. The Wansee conference was to gain the support for the final solution from all those departments head involved in Jewish policies.
Where was Hitler during wannsee conference?
Hitler was not present. The most senior Nazi at the meeting was Heydrich. The Wannsee Conference did not take any policy decisions: it was concerned with co-ordinating the roles of the various agencies involved in carrying out the "Final Solution" (Holocaust), such as the SS, the local police, the railways and so on.
What was decided at the wannsee conference in 1942?
On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons. "Europe would be combed of Jews from east to west," Heydrich stated. The minutes of that meeting have been preserved but were edited by Heydrich substituting the coded language Nazis used when referring to lethal actions to be taken against Jews. "Instead of emigration, there is now a further possible solution to which the Führer has already signified his consent - namely deportation to the east," Heydrich stated for example when referring to mass deportations of Jews to ghettos in occupied Poland and then on to the soon-opened death camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
When was the final solution authorized?
At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942
