July 31, 1941 - Final Solution

Hermann Goering initiates “final solution” plan for Europe’s “Jewish question.” Under Nazi control, the Jews of Europe suffered increasing hardship. Many were enslaved and killed, but Hitler’s ultimate plan was to eliminate them altogether. On July 31, 1941, Hitler’s No. 2 man, Herman Goering, instructed Reinhard Heydrich, second in importance to Heinrich Himmler in the Nazi SS and known as "The Blond Beast" or "Hangman Heydrich”, to create and carry out a plan to do so. He called it the “final solution” of the “Jewish question” in the German sphere of influence in Europe. German ministries cooperated fully, uprooting and deporting Jews to extermination camps in the east. Before the war ended, the Germans had exterminated at least 13 million people. Of those, approximately six million were Jews, which was approximately 65% of Europe’s Jewish population at the time. Of those six million Jews, about 1.5 million were children.

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