What was the Final Solution?

The Final Solution was the culminating step in Hitler's
plans towards Jewish people.  Simply put, the "final solution" was the extermination of
the Jewish race.  As Hitler had made more laws that were meant to target those of the
Jewish faith, relegating them to greater peripheral status, Hitler had issued a
"warning" that if Jewish individuals "led" to another World War involving Germany that
Hitler would "deal" with it in a finalizing and totalizing manner.  In the early 1940s,
this became translated as "the final solution," authorizing the complete extermination
of all Jewish people.  Consider how others in the Nazi party viewed the dimensions of
the Final Solution:

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As for the Jews, well, I can tell you quite
frankly that one way or another we have to put an end to them. The
Führer once put it this way: if the combined forces of Judaism
should again succeed in unleashing a world war, that would mean the end of the Jews in
Europe... I would therefore be guided by the basic expectation that they are going to
disappear. They have to be gotten rid
of.

When we speak of the
Holocaust, the idea of ensuring that the Jewish people would "disappear" is one of the
fundamental precepts involved in the Final Solution.   In this declaration of the "Final
Solution," Nazi Germany becomes synonymous with some of the worst crimes in human
history.