The Final Solution to the Jewish Question refers to the German Nazis’ plan to engage in systematic genocide against the European Jewish population during World War II.

The term was coined by Adolf Eichmann, a top Nazi official who supervised the genocidal campaign and was captured, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean from Argentina (where he was in hiding), tried, and executed by Israeli authorities in 1961–1962. The implementation of the Final Solution resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust.

There is ample evidence for this view, for example on July 31, 1941, under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring ordered SS Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich to “make all necessary preparations as regards organizational, financial, and material matters for a total solution (Gesamtlösung) of the Jewish question within the area of German influence in Europe … I instruct you further 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 (Endlösung) of the Jewish question.”