HIEU 158 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Operation Reinhard, Extermination Camp, Heinrich Himmler
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Poland was the main battleground of the holocaust. Most of the camps were located there. Half of all jews killed in the holocaust would be polish. Himmler demanded a huge increase in the killings. Sobibor and belzec were temporarily shut down to allow for more people to be killed. Second in death rate only to auschwitz. There were tighter food rations for the germans. Push to allow non germans to starve. Any farmers that didn"t produce as much as they were told were murdered. Heydrich reinhard was assassinated by czech operatives of the british soe. The expansion of the extermination project in the general government was called operation reinhard in his honor. Himmler"s idea that was approved by hitler. The plan was to expel as many people as possible out of the eastern reaches of. The germans couldn"t find enough ethnic germans to fill the area. The poles ran to the woods and led resistance movements.
