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.

In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther ( diplomat ) | Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the " Endlösung der Judenfrage " ( Final Solution to the Jewish Question ).

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

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.

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.

Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to Martin Luther, Undersecretary at the Foreign Office, inviting him to the Wannsee Conference ( Wannsee Conference House Memorial, Berlin ).

Lange was called to the Wannsee Conference by Heydrich in January 1942.

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.

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.

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.

This event, presided over by Reinhard Heydrich and conducted by Adolf Eichmann, has since become known as the Wannsee Conference.

In this capacity he took part in the Wannsee Conference headed by Reinhard Heydrich.

He represented the Foreign Ministry at the Wannsee Conference, which was convened by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in order to work out the details of the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".

Authorised by Hitler and under the direction of Himmler and Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen units — now repurposed as death squads — followed the Heer ( army ) into Poland, and by the end of 1939 they had murdered some 65, 000 intellectuals and other civilians.

Heydrich sent a telegram that night to various SD and Gestapo offices, helping to coordinate the program with the SS, SD, Gestapo, uniformed police ( Orpo ), SA, Nazi party officials, and even the fire departments.

When Heydrich stood up to try to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at the vehicle, and its fragments ripped through the car ’ s right-rear fender, embedding shrapnel and fibres from the upholstery into Heydrich ’ s body, even though the grenade failed to enter the car.

His aversion to Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler grew even though he continued to regularly lunch with them.

When Heydrich stood up to try to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at the vehicle, and its fragments ripped through the car ’ s right-rear fender, embedding shrapnel and fibres from the upholstery into Heydrich ’ s body, even though the grenade failed to enter the car.

When Heydrich stood up to try to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at the vehicle, and its fragments ripped through the car ’ s right-rear fender, embedding shrapnel and fibres from the upholstery into Heydrich ’ s body, even though the grenade failed to enter the car.

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

Canaris appeared outwardly to side with his friend Heydrich, but only in order to give Abwehr a chance to grow and become a considerable force.

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.

Kershaw argues that the dramatic expansion in both the range of victims and the intensity of the killings after mid-August 1941 indicates that Hitler issued an order to that effect, most probably a verbal order conveyed to the Einsatzgruppen commanders through either Himmler or Heydrich.

The Quartermaster General Eduard Wagner ( representing Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht ) met Heydrich and agreed to the activation, commitment, command, and jurisdiction of Security Police and SD units in the Wehrmachts table of operations and equipment ( TOE ): in the rear operational areas, the Einsatzgruppen were to function in administrative sub-ordination to the field armies in order to effect the tasks assigned them by Heydrich.

Daluege and Frank were instrumental in initiating the destruction of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky in order to take revenge on the Czech populace for Heydrich ’ s death.

At Stalin's order, the NKVD instructed one of its agents, Nikolai Skoblin, to pass to Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the German Nazi SD ( Sicherheitsdienst ) intelligence arm, concocted information suggesting a plot by Tukhachevsky and the other Soviet generals against Stalin.

Broszat questioned whether Hitler had given Himmler any order to save the lives of the people abroad the train, given that the phone call Himmler made from the Wolfsschanze to Heydrich in Prague took place at about 11: 30 A. M. and the records show that Hitler did not get up until about 2: 00 P. M on November 30, 1941.

Himmler and Heydrich issued marching orders to the SS, while Sepp Dietrich went around showing army officers a purported SA execution list.

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.

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 ).

Littledale avoided capture and eventually headed for Switzerland but was caught in Husinec on 29 May whilst trying to avoid the police activity in and around Prague after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich two days earlier.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

With Frick's support, Himmler ( pushed on by his right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich ) took over the political police of state after state.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ").

On 27 September 1939, the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany — with the exception of the Orpo — were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office ( RSHA ), headed by Heydrich.

Thereafter, Himmler and Heydrich took over the political police of state after state ; soon only Prussia was controlled by Göring.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the SD.

Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.

The Einsatzgruppen ( SS task forces ) had been originally formed by Heydrich to secure government papers and offices in areas taken over by Germany before World War II.

In June 1942, Heydrich was assassinated in Prague in an operation led by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, members of Czechoslovakia's army-in-exile who had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive.

Historian John Toland relates a story by Günter Syrup, a subordinate of Heydrich.

Upon his arrival in Prague, Heydrich sought to eliminate opposition to the Nazi occupation by suppressing Czech culture and deporting and executing members of the Czech resistance.

Heydrich was attacked in Prague on 27 May 1942 by a British-trained team of Czech and Slovak soldiers who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill him in an operation code named Operation Anthropoid.

Heydrich was devastated by the dismissal and found himself without prospects for a career.

But the " information " Heydrich had received was actually misinformation planted by Stalin himself in an attempt to legitimize his planned purges of the Red Army's high command.