Final Solution

The “Final Solution” was the name of the Nazi plan to exterminate Jewish people.  The plan took place in several stages after the Nazi party rose to power.  At first, there were anti-Jewish laws and boycotts in Germany, but eventually, the plan expanded to include the annihilation of all European Jews.  Polish and Western European Jews were deported to ghettos in Poland, and German mobile killing squads were assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union during the summer of 1941.  These squads follow the German army as it advances deep into Soviet territory, and carry out mass-murder operations.

The Wannsee conference takes place in early 1942.  It’s a meeting between the SS (the elite guard of the Nazi) and German government, and they coordinate the steps of the “Final Solution”.  All European Jews in occupied countries were deported and sent to concentration camps in Poland where millions are exterminated.  The “Final Solution” used gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation to kill about six million Jews during World War II.