Hitler's+Final+Solution+-+The++Holocaust

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The origin of the "Final Solution," the [|Nazi] plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the [|genocide] of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The "Final Solution" was implemented in stages. After the June 1933 Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, "Aryanization," and finally the "Night of Broken Glass" [|pogrom], all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society. After the beginning of World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a comprehensive plan to concentrate and eventually annihilate European Jewry. The Nazis established ghettos in occupied Poland. Polish and western European Jews were deported to these ghettos. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, mobile killing squads ([|Einsatzgruppen]) began killing entire Jewish communities. The methods used, mainly shooting or gas vans, were soon regarded as inefficient and as a psychological burden on the killers. After the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the Nazis began the systematic deportation of Jews from all over Europe to six [|extermination camps] established in former Polish territory -- [|Chelmno], [|Belzec], [|Sobibor], Treblinka, [|Auschwitz-Birkenau], and Majdanek. Extermination camps were killing centers designed to carry out genocide. Over three million Jews were gassed in extermination camps. In its entirety, the "Final Solution" consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation that accounted for the deaths of about six million Jews -- two-thirds of European Jewry. -[|__http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/fsol.htm__]

The Final Solution of the Jewish Question was Adolf Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews in Europe. His anti-Semitic ideas were so strong that he released his hatred by murdering them. The first step taken for this was the //Wannsee Conference// (1942), in which everything was planned. Hitler asked Reinhard Heydrich, an aide to Heinrich Himmler, to organize this conference. Concentration camps were of top priority to discuss in the conference. First of all, the Nazis would trap the Jews in ghettos; then they were taken to death camps. Auschwitz, located in southern Poland, was the main and most important concentration and extermination camp. About 1 to 3 million people were killed here, which is about one-third of all the Jews killed in the Holocaust. The other important concentration camp was Treblinka, located 80 km from Warsaw, Poland. First, it was established as a slave labor camp in 1941, then, in 1942, it became a death camp. From July to September of 1942, 300,000 Jews had been taken from Warsaw to Treblinka. By May of 1943, the entire population of Warsaw had been transported to Treblinka and other camps. Two years later, by July 11, 1945, 800,000 Jews had been murdered in Treblinka, including men, women, and children.

There were many different ways in which the Nazis massacred the people; such as, crematoriums, electrocution, phenol injections, flame-throwers, hand grenades, and gas chambers-- hydrocyanic gas, carbon monoxide gas. The most common ones were the crematoriums and the gas chambers. Seemingly, since the moment Hitler decided to become a dictator, the Final Solution was already in his mind. In the book __Hitler and the Final Solution__, by Gerald Fleming, there is a quote of Hitler that says: "Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews" (p. 17). He eventually achieved his goal, killing 6 million Jews. -[|__http://cghs.dadeschools.net/holocaust/fsolution.htm__] Keith Waddell 11kwaddell@gmail.com

also known as "shoah" or churben. The nazis didnt only kill jews. They killed the Roma, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, ethnic Poles, the disabled, gay men, and political and religious opponents. Most scholars just think of the Holocaust though as an extermination of the jews in Europe. total victims were 9-11 million Inmates in concentration camps were used for slave labor before until they died of disease or were murdered Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Roma were crammed into ghettos to go top the concentration camps. If they survived the journey they were normally killed in gas chambers. the word Holocaust means has been used since the 18th century to refer to violent deaths of large sums of people