'The Final Solution to the Jewish Question'

20th January 1942: Nazis meet at the Wannsee 'Villa on the Lake' to organise the murder of every Jew in Europe

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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