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The Atrocities Committed by Nazi Officer Reinhard Heydrich in Poland
1:15:32 - 1:22:45 (07:12)
Reinhard Heydrich informed his men of the brutalities committed against ethnic Germans in Poland, and immediately created a massive index card library of 61k people to arrest and execute. They executed thousands of people, including Jewish women and children, during their mass killing spree.
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The Wannsee Conference marked the first time the Nazi's had a serious actionable plan to purge central Europe of its Jews, and for the first time Hitler had a timeline of when that could be achieved; estimating ten years.
1:15:32 - 1:19:03 (03:31)
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The Wannsee Conference marked the first time the Nazi's had a serious actionable plan to purge central Europe of its Jews, and for the first time Hitler had a timeline of when that could be achieved; estimating ten years.
ChapterThe Atrocities Committed by Nazi Officer Reinhard Heydrich in Poland
EpisodePart Two: The Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Heinrich Himmler's orders to the Einsatzgruppen to arrest and in most cases execute immediately upon taking over Poland affected thousands of Polish leadership positions, according to post-war testimonies of leading task force officers present that day.
1:19:03 - 1:22:45 (03:41)
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Heinrich Himmler's orders to the Einsatzgruppen to arrest and in most cases execute immediately upon taking over Poland affected thousands of Polish leadership positions, according to post-war testimonies of leading task force officers present that day. Hitler had instructed them to exterminate entire classes of Polish society that were carriers of their nationalism.