The Final Solution in Nazi Germany

The Use of Euphemism in Nazi Language

The use of euphemism in language among the Nazis was popular and constant with the aim of disguising their blueprint to annihilate Jews and involve themselves in devastating crimes. The ’final solution’ was a term used by the Nazis to refer to their strategy to kill rather eliminate the Jewish people. The period when Nazi Germany decided to implement this solution is still a mystery. However, it is clear that mass destruction and genocide of the Jews occurred and it culminated a period of severe measures on discrimination.

The Main Agenda of the ’Final Solution’

The main agenda of the ’final solution’ was to activate the persecution and segregation of the Jews. The plan was orchestrated in such a way that the miseries on Jews were to be imposed in stages (Mendelsohn, John, and Donald 121). At the conference, it was proposed that about 11 million Jews, estimated to be present in the entire world were supposed to be subjected to forced slave labor under unfavorable conditions or sending them straight to camps. The Nazis were entirely bothered by the existence of the Jews, and they wanted them to be expelled from the world and every sphere of life.

The Categorization and Treatment of Jews

Jews were treated based on their ’blood purity,’ and as a result, they were categorized into groups. Each group was victimized on such basis, for instance, the persons of mixed blood which was not considered to be of the first degree were treated as the Jews (Roseman 312). This meant that they were subjected to harsh conditions as any other Jew and several of them annihilated to eliminate the chances of contaminating the Germany race. The people of mixed blood of the first degree were subjected to sterilization which was aimed at minimizing any chance of producing offspring and as well eliminating the danger posed by people of mixed blood at once. The Jews were mainly targeted because Germans perceived their religion as irrelevant in the society. Also, they had notions about their biological impurities which they feared would contaminate their race.

Victimization of Other Groups

While the Jews were the primary targets, other groups that existed among the Germans were also victimized. Some of the acts influenced on such groups include involuntary hospitalization, holocaust, and forced sterilization. As the tension escalated, other forms of punishment such as forced labor, sexual labor and used as specimens for medical experimentation. People with disabilities were considered a burden in the sphere of the earth. The Nazi wanted a society that encompassed perfect races and not one with people in need of care. Thousands were sterilized due to their disabilities. Other people who were subjected to the extreme conditions include non-Europeans. The Nazis influenced racism against anyone who did not belong to the Aryan race. The intention to eliminate the non-European was that it made the race weak and affected their cultural and political prowess. In the clean-up and safeguarding the purity of the Germans, the Romani were not spared. They underwent through selective breeding where a good number of them were killed while others were deported or suffered the same fate as the Jews. Also, this fate further spread to other races such as the Slavs, Poles, Ukrainians, and Soviet Slavs. Beyond ethnicity lines, the Nazis also fueled and persecuted religious groups such as the Jehovah witness, Roman Catholics, and Protestants because they assumed that such religions were associated with the Jews thus their existence was a threat.

The Role of the Wannsee Protocol

The Wannsee protocol was meant to influence the persecution and isolation of the Jews mainly by ensuring that they did not thrive in their professions. Also, the Germans were afraid of the success of the Jews in business which led them to forcefully ’Aryanize’ the businesses and implement unbearable segregation policies (Gigliotti 127). Furthermore, the protocol was significant in prohibiting intermarriage between the German and other non-European races. The protocol was not designed to affect the Jews with direct intentions to kill them but to make their lives difficult in Germany. It was a means of driving them away from the territory where they were unwanted. However, even though the protocol did not directly clarify the killings and those in-charge of such atrocities, to a great extent, it influenced the Holocaust. It intrigued the murdering of the Jews and subjection of mixed blood to the final solution (Gigliotti 120). Furthermore, it is clear that the Wannsee protocol facilitated the clearance of a process that had already been in motion since some Nazis had already started killing the Jews even without the consent. Hence, through it, the hurting of the Jews was facilitated at a devastating speed.

Work cited

Gigliotti, Simone. “Commissioning Mass Murder: Conspiracy and History at the Wannsee Conference.”Repicturing the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2007. 119-133.

Mendelsohn, John, and Donald S. Detwiler. The Holocaust: selected documents in eighteen volumes. Vol. 1. Garland Pub., 1982.

Roseman, Mark. The Wannsee Conference and the final solution: A reconsideration. Macmillan, 2003.