What is oh- in the final solution?

The nature and timing of the decisions that led to the Final Solution is an aspect of the Holocaust that is intensely researched and debated. The Final Solution can't be attributed to a single decision made at a particular time, according to Christopher Browning.

In 1940, after the fall of France, Adolf Eichmann devised the Madagascar Plan to move Europe's Jewish population to the French colony, but the plan was abandoned for logistical reasons, mainly a naval blockade. There were also preliminary plans. to deport Jews to Palestine and Siberia. In 1941, writes Raul Hilberg, in what was the first phase of the mass murder of Jews, mobile killing units began to pursue their victims across the territories busy orientals; in the second phase, which spanned all of German-occupied Europe, Jewish victims were sent on death trains to centralized death camps built for the purpose of systematically applying the Final Solution.

Hitler wrote his first political document in 1919, in which he stated that the "Jewish question" should be solved through the total removal of the Jews from Europe, which should be carried out not emotionally, but based on efficient planning. The Jewish issue was the most important issue of the Nazism.

The segregation and persecution of European Jewry was carried out in several stages. After the Nazis came to power and the "Röhm Putsch" in the summer of 1934, Nazi-imposed racism ended in anti-Semitic legislation, with the Nuremberg Laws passed on September 15, 1935 denying Reich citizenship to German Jews, and with a Law for the Protection of Blood, prohibiting all intermarriage between German Jews and non-Jewish Germans; little by little seeing themselves stripped of all their rights as citizens. they were deported en masse to the concentration camps of Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Dachau.

The goal was to speed up the emigration of the Jews.

Jews were forced to leave Germany as well because they were isolated from the rest of society.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the start of World War II, anti-Semitic politics perpetrated a detailed plan to concentrate and then annihilate European Jews. They first created ghettos in the General Government (a territory in central and eastern Poland, in which the Germans created a German government) and the Warthegau (an area of ​​western Poland annexed to Germany).

These ghettos were home to Jews from Poland and Western Europe.

After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen began killing operations targeting entire communities of Jews.

The methods of mobile teams, mostly firing squad or gas trucks called "ghost trucks", were used as early as 1940 to kill the mentally ill in certain psychiatric hospitals. They considered them to be "inefficient" and difficult for the "performers."

On July 31, 1941, Reinhard Heydrich, commander of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA), received an order from Hermann Göring to prepare the "final solution of the Jewish question". In the letter , which according to Adolf Eichmann was drawn up by Heydrich himself and presented only for his signature, Göring, after commissioning a "global solution" (Gesamtlösung) of the Jewish question in the German area of ​​influence, repeats the order that "I present myself without delay a global plan of the organizational, practical and financial measures necessary for the execution of the final solution that is intended to be given to the Jewish problem".

Although the mass murders of Jews had begun before the Soviet Union invaded, they were probably not included in the plan to kill all European Jews.

The letter, in reality, had the more limited intention of ensuring exclusive competence for the SS in everything related to the Jewish question, leaving Alfred Rosenberg above all out, who had been appointed minister on July 16 of the Reich for the Occupied Eastern Territories. The orders were vague also because at that time Hitler was still opposed to mass deportations, which was confirmed by Joseph Goebbels in a meeting held on August 18 in which, although authorized the marking of the Jews of the Reich with a "large and clearly visible mark" and mentioned his prophecy about the ominous fate that awaited them, gave the completion of the military campaign in the east priority for the allocation of the means of transportation.

In the autumn of 1941, Heinrich Himmler, who conceived the plan that would lead to the extermination of much of Europe's Jewry, ordered SS General Odilo Globocnik (SS chief for the Lublin district) to implement a plan to systematically kill the Jews residing in the General Government. Aktion Reinhard was the code name given to the operation by Heydrich, who had been in charge of preparing the "final solution" and would be assassinated by Czech partisans in May of 1942. ​

Three death camps were created in Poland. In September 1942, the first mass extermination actions were carried out.

The deportations to the death camps began in January 1942. The "evacuation" began at the Warthegau and continued at the General Government in March of the same year. Jewish families were sent to the gas chambers after arriving at the camps. 310,000 people were deported from Warsaw until September 1942, and the assistant to Globocnik was in charge of the deportations.

The workers in the war industry were the only ones who remained.

At the Wannsee Conference, led by Reinhard Heydrich and which took place in Gross Wannsee (Berlin) on January 20, 1942, a group of Nazi German government officials and SS leaders established the coordination of the various authorities for the " the final solution of the Jewish question", that is, the mass extermination of European Jewry. deport all persons of Jewish descent to concentration and extermination camps.

The meeting was the first discussion of the "Final solution" and was used during the Nuremberg trials, which were found intact by the Allies at the end of World War II. Himmler was instructed by Hitler to tell the truth about the fate of the Jews to the highest levels of the Nazi party.

The Posen Speech is the first of these speeches where the truth about the Holocaust is acknowledged. The result of the final solution is often referred to as the Holocaust, in fact it is not a ritual sacrifice but a crime against humanity.

The gassing of people in a converted farmhouse began in January 1942 at the largest camp. It was necessary to reform a second farm after numerous transports of Jews arrived at Auschwitz.

In July 1942 Himmler ordered the expansion of the Birkenau camp to be able to intern 200,000 prisoners, as well as building four gas chambers with their respective crematoria

According to the plans of the company Hoch-und Tiefbau AG Kattowitz, the four gas chambers and the crematoria began to function between March 22 and June 25, 1943; the gassing installations and crematory ovens were manufactured by the company J. A. Topf & Söhne from Erfurt.

In October 1942, Himmler ordered all Jews to be sent to Majdanek. There were mass executions between May 8 and July 29 1944.

Himmler ordered thegassing of more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews. Many of the 24,000 people who were killed on certain days were burned in open-air bonfires.

In his memoirs, Hss says that in the summer of 1941 he was personally received by Himmler.

At the end of his appointment, he demanded that he remain silent.

Majdanek and Chelmno were death camps used by the Nazis.

Groups of Jews were gassed in Majdanek because they were unable to work. The trucks were used to gas them. More than three million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.

During his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Eichmann admitted that the most effective methods of exterminating the Jewish people living in Europe were rigorously studied.

The final solution involved the slaughter of European Jewry bygassing, shooting, and other measures of mass murder. Two thirds of European Jewry died in 1939.

Some sectors maintain that the final solution did not imply the extermination of the Jews, but that it was a plan that sought to deport the Jews of Germany and the occupied countries and allies of Germany, and that in the long term it implied the creation of a Jewish State on the island of Madagascar, a territory under the control of France and sparsely populated at the time.

The letter of July 31, 1941, written by Gring to Heydrich, is the basis of the assumption that the Nazis did not murder the Jews but instead displaced them to Eastern Europe.

The Nazi chancellery's employee Martin Luther wrote a memo on August 21, 1942, in which he stated that he was one of the Wannsee conference participants.

No, not at all. The Nazis did not plan to murder the Jews of Europe. However, they were anti-Semites. The Jews of Germany were considered a problem. One of the questions the Nazis were asking was how to get rid of the Jewish population.

They used to call it the "Jewish problem."

The first Nazi solution to the Jewish problem was mass murder. Various anti-Jewish policies and plans were worked on by the Nazis.

They tried to force Jews to emigrate.

The Nazis' perspective on the "Jewish problem" changed during World War II. Forced emigration of the Jews was not a viable solution.

In the early years of World War II, Nazi Germany conquered much of Europe. Millions of European Jews came under the control of the Nazis in 1939 and 1941.

During this time, the "Jewish problem" took on new proportions for the Nazis. Thousands of Jewish communities were affected by his anti- Jewish policies. The Nazis didn't immediately decide to commit mass murder.

The Nazis considered relocating entire Jewish communities. They considered sending the Jews to a reservation in German-occupied Poland, to Siberia, and to an island off the coast of Africa. These plans were very difficult to carry out.

The Nazis looked for other solutions to the Jewish problem.

The Germans created ghettos in Poland in 1939 and 1940. The ghettos were established to separate Jews from the non-Jewish population.

The ghettos were areas of the city where the Germans forced the Jews to live in unsanitary conditions. Many ghetto residents died of disease.

In 1941, the Nazis began killing Jews. The murders began after Germany attacked the soviet union.

The German armed forces were followed by special police and police units. The communists and the Jews were enemies of Nazi Germany and his task was to ensure security. These units carried out mass murder.

They began murdering all of the Jewish communities. The units murdered Jews and others using gas vans.

The mass shootings and gassings marked the beginning of the "Final solution" because they reflected the radicalization of the Nazis' anti-Jewish policies.

The Nazis created killing centers to commit mass murder as part of the final solution to the Jewish problem. The Nazis used gas chambers and gas vans to kill people.

There were five killing centers.

Jews were deported from all over Europe to these killing centers. The ghettos established by the Germans in Poland and other countries were the source of many deportations.

The "Final solution" is not the same as the Holocaust.

Europe's Jews were systematically murdered from 1933 to 1945 under the auspices of the state. Nazi Germany and its allies coordinated the Holocaust.

The final solution to the Jewish problem took place in 1941 to 1945. It was a mass murder of Europe's Jews. Many Jews were killed before the final solution began.

The majority of Jews who died in the Holocaust were killed as part of the final solution.

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis, their allies and their collaborators.

Approximately two thirds of the Jewish population lived in Europe before the war.