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Part Two: The Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

Behind the Bastards

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Hydric's Importance in the Holocaust

In 1934, Hydric had suggested in an internal memo that quote, the aim of Jewish policies must be the emigration of all Jews. He urged that voluntary immigration could be achieved by creating a legal climate so oppressive that Jewish people could no longer stand to stay in the Reich. To further this end, in 1935, he had the Gestapo start keeping track of all Jewish German residents. In 1936, he started monitoring their financial transactions to stop them from putting their money in foreign banks. They had to leave, but he wanted most of their wealth to remain.

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