[Ads-l] Antedating of "Final Solution"

[Bill Mullins]

Before the "final" Final Solution, the Nazis had several interim Final Solutions, such as the ghetto laws:

[1938 Passaic NJ Herald-News 11 Nov 1/4

The legislation would be part of a program, designated, as Nazis put it, to provide a "final solution" of the Jewish problem.

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2815439802/pagelevelImagePDF/A81069ED811048DEPQ]


As far as the final Final Solution, it originated here:

1942 Besprechungsprotokoll Wannseekonferenz (Berlin), 20 January 2

Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, teilte eingangs seine Bestellung zum Beauftragten für die Vorbereitung der Endlösung der europäischen Judenfrage durch den Reichsmarschall mit und wies darauf hin, daß zu dieser Besprechung geladen wurde, um Klarheit in grundsätzlichen Fragen zu schaffen.

[1942 Minutes of the Wannsee Conference (Berlin), 20 January 2

The Chief of the Security Police and the SD, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, announced at the outset that he had been appointed by the Reich Marshal as Commissioner for the Preparation of the Final Solution to the European Jewish Question and pointed out that this meeting had been called in order to clarify fundamental questions.]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Wannsee_Protokoll_januar_1942.pdf

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