On 20 January 1942 Heydrich chaired the Wannsee Conference, at which he presented to the heads of a number of German Government departments a plan for the deportation and transporting of 11 million Jewish people from every country in Europe, to be worked to death or killed outright in extermination camps.

In January 1942 he attended the Wannsee Conference at which Heydrich briefed senior officials from a number of government departments of the plan, and at which Eichmann took the minutes.

Reinhard Heydrich also made a number of " inspection tours " although the microphones were turned off on those occasions.

The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

Heydrich, in opening the Conference, followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living space through violence, economic strangulation, forced emigration, and evacuation.

Heydrich detailed how those Jews able to work would be worked to death ; those unable to work would be killed outright.

Heydrich chaired the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, which laid out plans for the final solution to the Jewish Question — the deportation and extermination of all Jews in German-occupied territory.

Heydrich was one of the organisers of Kristallnacht, a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany on the night of 9 – 10 November 1938.

In May 1941, Heydrich drew up regulations with Quartermaster general Eduard Wagner for the upcoming invasion of the Soviet Union that ensured that the Einsatzgruppen and army would cooperate in murdering Soviet Jews.

The SS Einsatzgruppen death squads, formed by his deputy, Heydrich, murdered many civilian non-combatants, primarily Jews, in the countries occupied by Germany during World War II.

The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the " Final solution to the Jewish question ".

In the course of the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, presumably approved by Adolf Hitler, for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe and French North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia ) to German-occupied areas in eastern Europe, and the use of the Jews fit for labour on road-building projects, in the course of which they would eventually die according to the text of the Wannsee Protocol, the surviving remnant to be annihilated after completion of the projects.

He also knew that his immediate superior, Himmler, favored exterminating the Jews, and Heydrich was at that moment directing the Einsatzgruppen to do just that in the newly conquered Soviet territories.

Accordingly, during the second half of 1941 Heydrich and his staff worked on proposals to " evacuate " all Jews from Germany and the occupied countries to labour camps, either in occupied Poland or further east in the Soviet Union, which it was assumed would soon be completely conquered.

It had been anticipated only to discuss problems that occurred with the deportations of the ( Greater ) German Jews ... Only after Hitler's speech of 12 December was Heydrich able, as Gerlach shows, to broaden the theme and fix a conference on the ' Final Solution of the European Jewish question '.

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police, sent a directive, the Schnellbrief, explaining that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones were to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils – Judenräte – would be established to carry out the German authorities ’ orders.

Werner Best, Reinhard Heydrich ’ s deputy, stated that the task of the police was " to root out all symptoms of disease and germs of destruction that threatened the political health of the nation … addition to Jews, most the germs were weak, unpopular and marginalized groups, such as gypsies, homosexuals, beggars, ' antisocials ', ' work-shy ', and ' habitual criminals '.

Official figures released after the event by Reinhard Heydrich stated that 191 Synagogues were destroyed, with 76 completely demolished ; 100, 000 Jews were arrested ; three foreigners were arrested ; 174 people were arrested for looting Jewish shops ; and 815 Jewish businesses were destroyed.

In the first edition of Hitler's War, Irving footnotes, " I cannot accept the view … there exists no document signed by Hitler, Himmler or Heydrich speaking of the extermination of the Jews ".

Upon the outbreak of war between Germany and the USSR, Reinhard Heydrich ordered his security forces to " cleanse " the border areas of Jews which led to formation of additional Einsatzkommandos.

The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jude ( German for Jew ) inscribed was then extended to all Jews over the age of six in the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( by a decree issued on September 1, 1941 signed by Reinhard Heydrich ) and was gradually introduced in other German-occupied areas.

It is hypothesized that the operation was named after Reinhard Heydrich, the coordinator of the Endlösung der Judenfrage ( Final Solution of the Jewish Question )-the extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by the German Third Reich during World War II.

Heydrich, however, viewed Lange's first-hand experience in conducting the mass murder of deported Jews as valuable for the conference.

On 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, deputed to find a " final solution " to the " Jewish problem ", chaired the Wannsee Conference at which all the Jews resident in Europe and North Africa were earmarked for extermination.

The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word Jude ( German for Jew ) inscribed was then extended to all Jews over the age of six in the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( by a decree issued on September 19, 1941, signed by Reinhard Heydrich ) and was gradually introduced in other German-occupied areas, where local words were used ( e. g. Juif in French, Jood in Dutch ).

In May 1941 Reinhard Heydrich passed on verbally the order to kill the Soviet Jews to the Border Police School of Pretzsch when the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen were being trained for Operation Barbarossa.

At the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich and various leading state officials discussed a more sweeping plan for killing Jews in Europe.

There they could be worked into extinction in accordance with the plan agreed on at the Wannsee Conference convened by Heydrich in January.

At Hitler's direction, Heydrich, Himmler, Göring, and Viktor Lutze drew up lists of those who should be liquidated, starting with seven top SA officials and including many more.

Heydrich not only felt he could no longer be a member, but came to consider the church's political power and influence a danger to the state.

Sensing an opportunity to strike a blow at both the Soviet Army and Admiral Canaris of Germany's Abwehr, Heydrich decided that the Russian officers should be " unmasked ".

To realise his goals Heydrich demanded racial classification of those who could and could not be Germanized.

Despite public displays of goodwill towards the populace, privately Heydrich left no illusions as to his eventual goal: " This entire area will one day be definitely German, and the Czechs have nothing to expect here ".

On 29 November, Heydrich sent invitations for a meeting to be held on 9 December at the headquarters of the International Criminal Police Commission ( the forerunner of Interpol, of which Heydrich at the time served as President ) at 16 Am Kleinen Wannsee ( in the comfortable lakeside suburb of Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin ).

The Foreign Office was to be represented by an undersecretary, since Heydrich suspected that State Secretary Weizsäcker was not fully aligned with the objectives of the regime.

When Hans Frank, head of the General Government in occupied Poland, heard of the meeting, he demanded to be represented and Heydrich agreed.

In early January 1942, Heydrich sent new invitations to a meeting to be held on 20 January.

Heydrich recognized that in order for the SS to fully gain national power the SA had to be broken.

In the eyes of some this was confirmed during World War II when Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of the puppet Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia secretly wore them believing himself to be a great king, and was assassinated less than a year later by the Czech underground.

Meanwhile Göring, Himmler, Heydrich and Victor Lutze ( at Hitler's direction ) drew up lists of people in and outside the SA to be killed.

Meanwhile Göring, Himmler, Heydrich and Lutze ( at Hitler's direction ) drew up lists of those who should be liquidated starting with seven top SA officials and ending with many more.

Especially after the Nazi reprisals for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, most of the Czech resistance groups demanded, based on German Nazi terror during occupation, the " final solution of the German question " () which would have to be " solved " by deportation of the ethnic Germans from their homeland.

On the day of the assassination attempt, Hitler ordered an investigation, reprisals and suggested that Himmler send SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski to Prague, as according to Karl Hermann Frank's post-war testimony, Hitler knew Zelewski to be harder than Heydrich.