Final Solution

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The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a plan orchestrated by Nazi Germany during World War II for the total extermination of people they defined as Jews. This secret policy of deliberate and systematic genocide across German-occupied Europe and all other areas that the Nazis controlled or influenced likely began in 1941, and was formally revealed to non-SS leaders of the German government at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942. It culminated in what is now known as the Holocaust—the murder of approximately 6 million Jews, including 90% of the Jews in Poland, two-thirds of all European Jews, and one-third of the total Jewish population of the world. The "Final Solution" was a euphemism selected by the Nazis as code name for the murder of all Jews within their reach, a strategy the Nazis often employed to obfuscate their disreputable and/or criminal actions. Such euphemisms included the use of "resettlement in the East" to refer to the incarceration of Jews...

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