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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Holocaust, final solutionnoun

    the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945

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  1. final solutionnoun

    The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews; the Nazi Holocaust.

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  1. Final Solution

    The Final Solution (German: die Endlösung, pronounced [diː ˈʔɛntˌløːzʊŋ] (listen)) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə] (listen)) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. The "Final Solution to the Jewish question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach, which was not restricted to the European continent. This policy of deliberate and systematic genocide starting across German-occupied Europe was formulated in procedural and geopolitical terms by Nazi leadership in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, and culminated in the Holocaust, which saw the murder of 90% of Polish Jews, and two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.The nature and timing of the decisions that led to the Final Solution is an intensely researched and debated aspect of the Holocaust. The program evolved during the first 25 months of war leading to the attempt at "murdering every last Jew in the German grasp". Christopher Browning, a historian specializing in the Holocaust, wrote that most historians agree that the Final Solution cannot be attributed to a single decision made at one particular point in time. "It is generally accepted the decision-making process was prolonged and incremental." In 1940, following 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, Raul Hilberg wrote that in the first phase of the mass-murder of Jews, the mobile killing units began to pursue their victims across occupied eastern territories; in the second phase, stretching across all of German-occupied Europe, the Jewish victims were sent on death trains to centralized extermination camps built for the purpose of systematic murder of Jews.

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  1. final solution

    A final solution generally refers to a method or action that resolves a problem or question completely, conclusively, or permanently. It is the ultimate resolution that is intended to fully address and eliminate a specific issue, usually after all other attempts or options have been exhausted or proven ineffective.

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  1. Final Solution

    The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to annihilate the Jewish people, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. According to historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Nazis frequently used euphemistic language to disguise the true nature of their crimes. They used the term 'Final Solution' to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people.” Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question". Massacres of about one million Jews occurred before the plans of the Final Solution were fully implemented in 1942, but it was only with the decision to eradicate the entire Jewish population that the extermination camps were built and industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began in earnest. This decision to systematically kill the Jews of political Europe was made either by the time of or at the Wannsee Conference, which took place in Berlin, in the Wannsee Villa on January 20, 1942. It occurred very shortly after the Babi Yar massacre was carried out and the conference was chaired by Reinhard Heydrich. He was acting under the authority given to him by Reichsmarschall Göring in a letter dated July 31, 1941. Göring instructed Heydrich to devise "...the solution of the Jewish problem..." During the conference, there was a discussion by the group of Nazi officials as how best to handle the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". A surviving copy of the minutes of this meeting was found by the Allies in 1947, too late to serve as evidence during the first Nuremberg Trials.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of final solution in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of final solution in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of final solution in a Sentence

  1. President Rouhani to President Obama:

    All unjust sanctions against the Iranian nation should be lifted, lifting all sanctions is the main issue that can help us reach the final solution.

  2. John McWhorter:

    That's what we're up against, so that's why there are some people who believe there's one truth. They think they found the final solution. They think they are [ philospher Immanuel ] Kant. They aren't.

  3. Even Netanyahu defense minister:

    It certainly wasn't( Husseini) who invented the Final Solution, that was the evil brainchild of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler.


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