Historical Organization
Reich Security Main Office
Reich Security Main Office
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Organization Timeline
Heydrich orders concentration of Jews in Polish cities
đź“… 21 September 1939Reinhard Heydrich instructed security-police leaders to concentrate Jews in larger towns near rail lines and establish Jewish councils to implement German orders. These measures created conditions for...
Heydrich discusses deporting Roma and Sinti to occupied Poland
đź“… 21 September 1939Reinhard Heydrich met Security Police and Security Service officials in Berlin and proposed deporting 30,000 German and Austrian Roma to the General Government in occupied Poland. The plan was later...
Göring authorizes Heydrich to coordinate a Europe-wide “solution”
📅 31 July 1941Hermann Göring authorized Reinhard Heydrich to prepare a plan for a “total solution” to the so-called Jewish question in German-controlled Europe. The document records bureaucratic coordination at a...
Jews in the German Reich are forced to wear the yellow star
đź“… 1 September 1941A police decree required Jews over age six in the Reich to wear a yellow Star of David in public. Forced marking extended social isolation and facilitated police control and deportation; comparable...
Wannsee Conference coordinates deportation and murder policy
📅 20 January 1942Senior Nazi officials met at Wannsee to coordinate the deportation of Europe’s Jews into a program euphemistically called the “Final Solution.” The conference did not initiate the genocide: mass...
Deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz begin
đź“… 15 May 1944Hungarian authorities and German officials began deporting Jews from the provinces to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In less than two months, hundreds of thousands were deported; most were murdered on arrival....