Final Solution

American  

noun

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

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Final Solution Cultural  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of Final Solution

1945–50; translation of German endgültige Lösung

Example Sentences

The final solution will see the shipment sealed in a purpose-built underground containment facility, he said.

From Barron's

Eichmann played a key role in the 1942 Wannsee Conference at which the Nazis' annihilation of European Jewry was planned, and was seen as the logistical mastermind of the Final Solution.

From BBC

Eichmann, one of the leading architects of the Final Solution aimed at wiping out Europe's Jews, was abducted by Israeli agents from Argentina in 1960 and sentenced a year later after a landmark public trial.

From BBC

“This is not the final solution.”

From Los Angeles Times

From the high-altitude perspective of postwar geopolitics, President Edvard Beneš dubbed it Czechoslovakia’s “final solution of the German question.”

From Slate