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Heinrich Himmler is often credited with the the drastic and tragic "Final Solution."
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Refers to the mass murder of Europe's Jewish people from 1941 to 1945
Enforced annihilation of the Jewish
Last stage of the Holocaust
Goal: to cultivate perfect human race (which Jews did not fit in according to Himmler/Hitler)
Ghettos established in 1939 (enclosed areas to isolate & control the Jewish)
Unsanitary & overcrowded conditions with unsustainable food
Overseen by German civilian governments
Deported & driven out of their homes
SS & police units (controlled by the Nazis) aimed at & killed entire Jewish communities
Mobile Gas Vans = suffocated & killed passengers inside with poisonous carbon monixide gas
Himmler tasked with responsibility for all security matters & broad elimination of threats to German rule
Began making preparations for the Final Solution
Himmler assigned plan to systemically murder the Jewish
Killing centers & gas chambers began to develop in Poland & Germany
Himmler appointed Auschwitz-Birkenau as a killing facility (where about 1 million Jews were murdered)
2.7 million Jews were murdered in these killing centers/concentration camps
"Final Solution" called for the annihilation of the Jewish by shooting, gassing, overworking, etc.
Approximately 6 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust
Nazi leaders' goal was around 11 million (or every single Jew in Europe), met goal more than halfway
Heinrich Himmler was the architect of the "Final Solution" & oversaw these concentration camps/killing centers
“Final Solution”: Overview. (n.d.). Holocaust
Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overview
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