The Solutions before the “Final Solution”

We use the term “Final Solution” to describe the Nazis plans to eradicate the Jewish people. However, the very word ‘Final”indicates that there were other solutions first employed to deal with the “Jewish Problem.”

In this landmark article by Sir Martin Goilbert, who is widely considered to be the world’s greatest expert on the Holocaust, he chronicles those previous soultions.

Sir Martin Gilbert (1936-2015)

This article will not only provide you with an overview of the Holocaust, it will also be the basis for the rest of this course.