Category
page 1Planning the Holocaust

Reinhard Heydrich
German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
Wannsee Conference
1942 meeting of senior officials and functionaries of National Socialist organisations and ministries in Berlin to organise and coordinate the deportation of the entire Jewish population of Europe to the East for extermination
Generalplan Ost
Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma
Posen speeches
two secret speeches made by Heinrich Himmler
SS Main Economic and Administrative Office
Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects for the Allgemeine-SS
Sonderaktion 1005
destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres
Nisko Plan
Nazi operation to deport Jews to Lublin District of occupied Poland to be confined to a concentration and forced labor camp
Wilhelm Höttl
SS officer (Nazi Germany)
Franz Rademacher
German diplomat and Nazi government official
Goering's Green Folder
1941 Nazi policy document
Functionalism versus intentionalism
historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust
Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941
encounter between Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi Party