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Himmler's

final solution

Heinrich Himmler is often credited with the the drastic and tragic "Final Solution."

!WARNING: Some photos may be disturbing/triggering!

What was the "Final Solution"?

Refers to the mass murder of Europe's Jewish people from 1941 to 1945

Enforced annihilation of the Jewish

Defined

Last stage of the Holocaust

Goal: to cultivate perfect human race (which Jews did not fit in according to Himmler/Hitler)

Segregation of the Jewish

Ghettos established in 1939 (enclosed areas to isolate & control the Jewish)

Unsanitary & overcrowded conditions with unsustainable food

Ghettos & Isolation

Overseen by German civilian governments

Deported & driven out of their homes

Massive Killing Operations in 1941

SS & police units (controlled by the Nazis) aimed at & killed entire Jewish communities

Killing Operations

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

Killing Centers, Sites, & Camps

Himmler assigned plan to systemically murder the Jewish

Centers & Camps

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 Statements

"Final Solution" called for the annihilation of the Jewish by shooting, gassing, overworking, etc.

Approximately 6 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust

Conclusion

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

Cited Source

“Final Solution”: Overview. (n.d.). Holocaust

Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overview

Cited Source

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