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The Final Solution (German: die Endlösung, pronounced [diː ˈʔɛntˌløːzʊŋ] ⓘ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə] ⓘ) refers to a plan orchestrated by the Nazi regime of Germany during World War II for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews.
The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented in Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, based on pseudoscientific and racist doctrines asserting the superiority of the putative "Aryan race", which claimed scientific legitimacy.
For Hitler, the start of World War II on 1 September 1939 confirmed the idea that there had been a Jewish conspiracy against Germany all along, even though Germany started the war by invading Poland. Historian Jeffrey Herf writes that "According to Hitler's paranoid logic, the Jews had launched the war so that the Nazis would be compelled to ...
Jersak argues that "Hitler planned to expel the Jews from Germany before he planned to conquer Lebensraum": [191] Hitler issued orders from 1937 to 1939 aimed at speeding Jewish emigration. [192] Jersak argues that if Germany became involved in a world war, Hitler recognized that the Axis would not emerge victorious.
An Austrian postcard in 1919 endorsing the Stab-in-the-back myth by showing a caricatured Jew stabbing a personified German Army soldier in the back with a dagger A fragment of the exposition Der Ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew"), which demonstrates "typical" anatomical traits of the Jews. Hitler shifted the blame for Germany's loss in the First ...
During the Hotel Polski affair, Jewish agents working for the Gestapo-operated Żagiew agent provocateur network helped to spread rumors that Jews could buy foreign passports and other documents, and then as foreign citizens, leave territories occupied by Nazi Germany. Approximately 2,500 Jews fell for this trap, with most subsequently arrested ...
As Germany's newfound völkisch nationalist leader, Hitler initiated a policy of ethnic nationalism replete with directives to eliminate Jews and other identified enemies as Nazism ultimately became the religion of the movement and the "irrational became concrete" under the terms of its "ideological framework".
In 1933, Hitler's speeches spoke of serving Germany and defending it from its foes: hostile countries, Communism, liberals, and culture decay, but not Jews. [13] Seizure of power after the Reichstag fire inaugurated April 1 as the day for a boycott of Jewish stores and Hitler, on the radio and in newspapers, fervently called for it. [ 14 ]