Referat IV B4

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Referat IV B4 was a specialized sub-department within the Gestapo’s Amt IV of the Nazi RSHA, responsible for coordinating the persecution and extermination of Jews.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gestapo department
Nazi government agency unit
activeDuring Holocaust
associatedWithEvent Wannsee Conference implementation
basedIn RSHA headquarters in Berlin
considered key organ of Nazi genocidal policy
country Nazi Germany
createdAsPartOf reorganization of RSHA sections
dissolved 1945
employed Gestapo officers
linked to: Gestapo

SS personnel
fieldOfWork Jewish affairs
racial policy enforcement
state security
fullName Referat IV B4 Judenangelegenheiten
function central office for Jewish affairs within Gestapo
implementation of anti-Jewish measures
hasAbbreviation IV B4
headedBy Adolf Eichmann
historicalRole central coordinating office for the Final Solution
ideology Nazism
jurisdiction German Reich
linked to: Nazi Germany

occupied Europe
languageOfWork German
locatedIn Berlin
notableWork coordination of the Holocaust
notoriousFor bureaucratic organization of genocide
opposedBy Allied powers
oversaw deportations to Auschwitz
deportations to Belzec
deportations to Sobibor
deportations to Treblinka
deportations to other extermination camps
partOf Amt IV
Gestapo
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
responsibleFor coordination of the Final Solution
deportation of Jews
organization of mass deportations to extermination camps
persecution of Jews
subjectOf Holocaust historiography
war crimes investigations after 1945
subordinateTo Amt IV chief
Heinrich Müller
timePeriod World War II
usedMethod coordination with local security police and SD
deportation orders
transport scheduling to extermination camps

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Amt IV containsSubunit Referat IV B4