final solution
The English word “final solution” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
- Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.
Etymology
Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)
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