Question

"I further charge you with submitting to me promptly an overall plan of the preliminary organizational,

practical and financial measures for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish Problem
[Endlösung der Judenfrage]."
-memo dated July 31, 1941, by Hermann Göring, head of the Gestapo, to Nazi SS General Reinhard
Heydrich
What was the central purpose of Hitler's "final solution" described in the quote?
a. The Final Solution would prevent attacks by Jewish resistance groups.
The Final Solution would systematically annihilate all Jews in Europe.
b.
c. The Final Solution would result in the exile of all Jews from Germany.
d. The Final Solution would force Jews in captured territory to move to labor camps.

Answer 1

The central purpose of Hitler's "final solution" described in the quote was:
b. The Final Solution would systematically annihilate all Jews in Europe.

The quote specifically mentions the "intended final solution of the Jewish Problem [Endlösung der Judenfrage]," indicating a plan to address and eliminate the Jewish population. This plan, known as the "Final Solution," aimed to systematically exterminate and eradicate Jews during the Holocaust. It involved the mass murder of millions of Jews in concentration camps and other extermination sites throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.