Heydrich And The Holocaust

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Holocaust is genocide by the Nazis and killed about six million Jews. In the history period 1941 - 1945, Jews were killed in a systematic genocide by a large leading group at that time. Others deemed life unworthy of life by the Nazis included the mentally and physically disabled, Romani people, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and social misfits. In total, about 11 million people were killed, including about one million Jewish children. In late 1941, Himmler and Heydrich expressed impatience with the progress of the Ultimate Solution. On January 20, 1942 Heydrich had summoned Wannsee Conference at The villa Am Großen Wannsee, they went to extreme measures to totally destroy the Jewish people, and 15 people sitting around a conference table