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| The German Nazis wanted to deport and kill all Polish and European Jews. This plan to kill all Jews was named the Final Solution, or Endlosung its German name, of the "Jewish problem". Millions of Jews were killed in the Final Solution and few survived. The ones that did survive had a very had life in the ghettos and concentration camps. They were beaten and later enslaved in the east. |
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| The Wannsee Conference was the beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish problem. The Wannsee Conference was a meeting by Nazi Officials about the "Final Solution of the Jewish problem". The meeting (Wannsee Conference) is noted as the first discussion of the Final Solution. the Wannsee Conference took place in Berlin and was on January 20,1942. At the Wannsee Conference there was many people there that met. These are the ones that met at the Wannsee Conference were Dr. Meyer, Dr. Leibbrandt, Dr. Luther, Dr. Lange, Eichmann, Muller, and Dr. Buhler. | |
| The Jews in the Final Solution had very hard lives. The first Jews were deported as "undesirable-aliens" or sent to internment camps in 1938. Then later they were taken to Auschwitz. The first Jews that got to Auschwitz were gassed in a reconstructed farm house on March 26,1942. Most of the Jews were killed by gas chambers or by open gun fire. Every where the Jews went they would be captured and killed or just shot there. It was decided that later the Jews would be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. With the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 a further million and a half Jews came under German rule. 11 million Jews would be involved in the "Final Solution of the European Jewish Question". 1.5 million of that was very young children. In Poland 3,000,000 Jews were killed. Baltic countries there were 228,000, Germany 210,000, SSR Ukraine 900,000. The estimated total for these countries and 17 more is 5,933,900. | |
| Concentration camps were big factors in the Final Solution because they killed most of the Jews. During the course of fifteen months, two million Jews were murdered in four different concentration camps. At Auschwitz during the Final Solution 1.5 million Jews were killed, and at Treblinka 870,000. The ghettos were also important in the killing of the Jews. The ghettos ,later concentration camps, where Nazis would concentrate Jewish populations in order to start their extermination. The Warsaw ghetto got forced out of during the final liquidation by the SS. The Jews from the Warsaw ghetto got sent to Treblinka. By April 1941 ghettos had been enforced throughout German-occupied Poland. By June the death toll from starvation had reached 2,000 a month in the Warsaw ghetto and 800 a month in the Lo'dz ghetto. |
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| There were many people involved in the Final Solution. Heinrich Himmler was one of them. Himmler was the one who planned the slaughter of three-quarters of all European Jews. The term genocide was coined by Adolf Eichmann. Joseph Goebbel's dairies were important in the understanding of Adolf Hitler's plan to establish a superior "Aryan Race". Which would mean for him to have to kill the Jews of the Holocaust. Since the moment Hitler decided to become a dictator, the Final Solution was already in his mind. "Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews" ,said Hitler before he became a dictator. He later achieved his goal killing six million Jews. The decision to start the Final Solution was made by Adolf Hitler at the end of 1941. The Nazis were also a big factor. The Nazis called all Jews "race-enemies". The worst consequence of the racist policy was the mass murder genocide. The Nazis would trap the Jews in Ghettos then take them to the death camps. The Final Solution was used as a code for the deportation of all Jews. | |
| The Final Solution of the Jewish Question was a bad time for all Jews in the Holocaust. Much of the World now refers the results of the "Final Solution" as the Holocaust. The Final Solution stands as testimony to one of the most horrible and destructive chapters in human history. |
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Trace McDiffett 7th Social Studies Rossville Jr. High Holocaust Project 2004 |
