20th January 1942: Nazis meet at the Wannsee 'Villa on the Lake' to organise the murder of every Jew in Europe
Jan 20, 2022
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Heydrich indicated that approximately 11,000,000 Jews in Europe would fall under the provisions of the "Final Solution." In this figure, he included not only Jews residing in Axis-controlled Europe, but also the Jewish populations of the United Kingdom, and the neutral nations (Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and European Turkey).
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