1941Göring Orders Heydrich to Formulate 'Final Solution' Plan

Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann ...
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✡️ Heydrich Appointed for the 'Jewish Question'

Reinhard Heydrich is appointed by Göring for the solution to the "Jewish Question".
Heydrich Appointed for the 'Jewish Question' (1940)
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📜 Göring Orders Heydrich to Formulate 'Final Solution' Plan

Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
Göring Orders Heydrich to Formulate 'Final Solution' Plan (1941)
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🏭 Auschwitz Expansion Ordered

Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison camp, to be run by Commandant Rudolf Höss.
Auschwitz Expansion Ordered (1941)
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📜 Lithuania Declared 'Judenfrei'

SS officer Karl Jaeger reports "Lithuania Judenfrei ," with some exceptions.
Lithuania Declared 'Judenfrei' (1941)
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📜 Wannsee Conference: Final Solution Decided

Nazis at the Wannsee conference in Berlin decide that the "final solution to the Jewish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
Wannsee Conference: Final Solution Decided (1942)
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