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

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.

From Salon

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon

It was clear then that Trump had the brilliant idea all by himself that the Palestinians should just move someplace else which he seemed to think was the obvious "final solution" to the vexing problem that no one had ever thought of before.

From Salon

Nazi leaders met in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the industrial slaughter - what they called a "final solution to the Jewish question" - killing the entire European Jewish population, 11 million people, by extermination and forced labour.

From BBC