What was Hitlers Final Solution?

By Victoria Armstrong.What was Hitlers Final Solution?1What was Hitlers Final Solution?

Hitlers final solution killed six million Jews. The "Holocaust" is the period of history between January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. From as early as 1935, Hitler introduced anti-Semitic legislation, including the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses. The "Final Solution," or the plan for the systematic murder of all Jews in Europe, began in June 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Around six million Jews - two-thirds of the population of European Jews - were murdered by the Nazis, including 1.5 million children. Another six million people including three million Polish

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After the annexation of Austria, and the Evian Conference, Hitler seemed to throw caution to the winds while the world stood by and allowed it to happen. As Martin Gilbert comments, "It was a neutral stance, not a hostile one, but this neutral stance was to cost a multitude of lives."2 Murders, killings, torture and forced labour in concentration camps continued after Evian. In October Hitler marched into the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia and four months after the Conference Kristallnacht, or 'Night of the Broken Glass' took place when thousands of Jewish shops and businesses were destroyed and many people arrested and killed. Although protest was again made in many parts of the world, the appeasement of Hitler and governments' own agendas were paramount over helping the Jews. Humanitarian considerations were sacrificed to self-interest and after war was declared, the allies' main thought was that of victory and the refugee problem was sidelined. After war against the Nazis was eventually declared Hitler's 'Final Solution' to the Jewish problem resulted in the loss of around six million Jewish lives in the Holocaust