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Once in power, the Nazi Party began taking measures to solve the “Jewish Question” in Germany. First, they initiated policies and laws that transformed German Jews into second-class citizens. Then, they expelled Jews from Germany or forced them to emigrate. During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators expanded this goal. They aimed to cleanse all of Europe of Jews through their forced “resettlement” in occupied Poland, the French island of Madagascar, or later occupied Soviet territory.
In 1941, Nazi Germany embarked upon a path of systematic mass murder—the so-called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Security Police and the SD, held a secret meeting known as the Wannsee Conference. Heydrich informed the representatives of various German governmental agencies that he had been tasked with the preparation of the “Final Solution.” He indicated that it would affect some 11 million Jews then living in Europe. By this stage, almost one million Jews in the occupied Soviet Union had been murdered, most of the Jews in Serbia eliminated, and the first killing center established in Chelmno