Final Solution

noun

1. the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich.

Final Solution

1. A term applied by Nazis to the genocide of European Jews (see also Jews) during World War II. Before instituting the Final Solution, the Nazi government had abolished the Jews' rights, destroyed and confiscated their property, and confined Jews in concentration camps.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Final Solution¹

1945–50; translation of German endgültige Lösung

Example Sentences

Human beings, not monsters, were the architects of the Final Solution.

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That rage formed the emotional and ideological bridge between the German campaign in the east and the final solution itself.

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And here we find another obstacle to peace in Ukraine: Europe and the U.S. do not have a united position on the final solution to the war.

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Israel’s war on Gaza increasingly resembles a neoliberalized version of the Final Solution, not in historical equivalence but in its genocidal logic.

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Its only use was to fulfill the "Final Solution" as far as possible — that being the extermination of Europe's Jewish population — as well as to murder millions of other camp inmates.

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