Final Solution

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• FINAL SOLUTION — (of the Jewish question; Ger. Endlö sung der Judenfrage ), the Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews. Rooted in 19th century antisemitic discourse on the Jewish question, Final Solution as a Nazi cover term denotes the last stage in the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• final solution — 1947, translation of Ger. Endlösung, name given to Nazi Jewish policy from 1941 …   Etymology dictionary

• Final Solution — or the n. the Nazi program for killing all Jews in German controlled lands …   English World dictionary

• Final Solution — This article is about the Holocaust, Nazi Germany s policy to exterminate the European Jews. For other uses, see Final Solution (disambiguation). In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the …   Wikipedia

• Final Solution — (Endlosung)    This was Nazi Germany’s euphemism for the decision to annihilate the Jews of Europe. In a letter dated 31 July 1941, which actually was written by Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Goering authorized Heydrich to “send me, as soon as… …   Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

• Final Solution — Final So|lu|tion, the Adolf Hitler s plan to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all →↑Holocaust …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• final solution — Adolf Hitler s final plan for murdering all of the Jews of Europe …   English contemporary dictionary

• final solution — noun Usage: often capitalized F&S Date: 1947 the Nazi program for extermination of all Jews in Europe …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• final solution — Hitlerian truncation covering the extermination of the Jews …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

• final solution — noun the Nazi policy (1941–5) of exterminating European Jews. Origin translation of Ger. Endlösung …   English new terms dictionary