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Reinhard Heydrich
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1939
January
24
Göring entrusts Heydrich with Jewish emigration
On 24 January 1939 Göring ordered a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration under Heydrich. The SS and police took over the expulsion of Germany’s Jews.
March
16
The creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
On 16 March 1939, by decree at Prague Castle, Hitler annexed Bohemia and Moravia as a protectorate. Autonomy was a fiction; the Reich Protector held power.
August
31
Key event
The Gleiwitz incident
On the evening of 31 August 1939 SS men posing as Polish insurgents raided the Gleiwitz radio station and left behind the body of a murdered Silesian.
September
01
Operation Tannenberg
On 1 September 1939 Security Police and SD Einsatzgruppen followed the Wehrmacht into Poland, carrying lists of names to “neutralise” Poland’s leading strata.
November
09
The Venlo incident
On 9 November 1939 SD men abducted two British intelligence officers at Venlo in the Netherlands, after luring them into talks with supposed conspirators.
1941
July
31
Key event
Göring’s order to Heydrich
On 31 July 1941 Göring authorised Heydrich to prepare a “total solution of the Jewish question” in the German sphere of influence in Europe.
September
01
The Star of David in the Reich
On 1 September 1941 Heydrich signed a decree requiring Jews aged six and over in the Reich and the Protectorate to wear a yellow “Jude” star from 19 September.
1942
January
20
Key event
The Wannsee Conference
On 20 January 1942 Heydrich gathered fifteen SS, Party and ministry officials by the Wannsee to co-ordinate the murder of Europe's Jews, already under way.
May
27
Key event
The assassination of Heydrich
On 27 May 1942 in Prague the Czechoslovak parachutists Gabčík and Kubiš gravely wounded Reinhard Heydrich. He died on 4 June; the Germans answered with terror.
June
04
The death of Heydrich
On 4 June 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, wounded eight days earlier, died in a Prague hospital. The Germans gave him two funerals and stepped up the terror.
10
Key event
The destruction of Lidice
On 10 June 1942 the Germans shot 173 men of the Czech village of Lidice, sent the women to Ravensbrück and the children to Łódź, and razed the village.