The Final Solution

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This paper analyzes the ideology of national socialism which Adolf Hitler developed and wrote about in "Mein Kampf." It explains how this ideology led to the implementation of the Final Solution in Germany. The paper discusses the rise of Hitler and his ideology and party and how they managed to psychologically condition the German people to support the Final Solution policies.

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"Early in the Second World War, Hitler and the Nazis began to implement the genocidal policy of the Final Solution, which consisted of a system of extermination camps which spread like a cancer across eastern Europe, primarily in Poland, into which innocent Jewish men, women, and children were taken in the millions for execution at the hands of the Heinrich Himmler's SS."
"In spite of the denials of millions of Germans that they had known anything about the Final Solution, it was carried out with the direct or tacit support of a great majority of them. Throughout the Second World War, tens of thousands of Germans were directly involved in developing, establishing, and maintaining the lethal infrastructure of Hitler's Final Solution, and no denials of responsibility can expunge their guilt."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bolkosky, Sidney. "The Origins of the Final Solution." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 36.2. 2005.
• Browning, C. Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
• Goldhagen, Daniel. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York: Vintage, 1997.
• Hitler, Adolph. Mein Kampf. London: Random House, 1992.

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