[Ads-l] Antedating of "Final Solution"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Final Solution (OED 1947)

1946 Boston Daily Globe 3 Jan. 2/5 (Newspapers.com)

Eichman ... Generally spoke of a total of 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 Jews killed in the "final solution of the Jewish problem" as ordered by Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler.

Fred Shapiro

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