Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)

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follow-up letter to the German diplomat Martin Luther asking for administrative assistance in the implementation of the "Final Solution", i.e. the Holocaust (26 February 1942); Heydrich had used similar language in a speech at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin (20 January 1942), as quoted in Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (1990), p. 304

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Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question)

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