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WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust

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The Vonzi Conference and the Holocaust

In December 1941, something more important happens and that is America comes into the war. In January 1942, there's a meeting chaired by Heinrich of a number of senior administrators and SS. And really it's designed to ensure that the SS have control of the whole killing process. What actually Heinrich's talking about is that the Jews should be deported east to work on this big road projects and be killed when they're no longer useful. It also goes back to the idea of deportations we were talking about. Either going to be deported into territory we own far in the east. This has always been part of the Nazi mindset. So you can see that the reason that all of the death

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