From the History Channel
1941 Goering orders Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution
On this day in 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, "to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
My own thoughts.
Wow I don't think much needs to be said of this day. There can be good events associated with this day but overall this event just puts July 31st into the infamous days of history. Even the way the sentence is written is just so creepy. That the Nazis actually cared about the finacial aspects of the "final solution" really shows how methodically they went about this issue.
2 comments:
This is what makes the Holocaust unique from other genocides. Not necessarily "worse" but certainly unique. It was the application of industrialization and bureacracy to genocide.
Other genocides have been horrible, and some have had higher numbers, but they were done more or less by hand. The Nazis built factories.
Just for my information (not arguing at all; simply do not know) -- which other genocide(s), have reached higer numbers?
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