Endlösung

== German == === Etymology === From Ende (“end”) +‎ Lösung (“solution”). Even before Hitler (some time in 1941) gave the command for outright genocide, the Nazis had been using the term to refer to an eventual displacement of the Jews from western and central Europe—by emigration and deportation as it was then understood. When the extermination program began, the term was transferred and soon enough restricted to this sense. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ/ Hyphenation: End‧lö‧sung === Proper noun === die Endlösung f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Endlösung) (originally euphemistic) short for Endlösung der Judenfrage: the Final Solution, the Holocaust (attempted extermination of European Jews by the Nazis) Synonyms: Holocaust, Schoah, (Nazism, euphemistic only) Judenevakuierung For quotations using this term, see Citations:Endlösung. ==== Usage notes ==== The term is widely used in post-1945 historic literature without any euphemistic intention (as is Final Solution in English). === Noun === Endlösung f (genitive Endlösung, plural Endlösungen) (archaic) the final or definitive solution to a question or problem For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Endlösung. (chemistry, possibly dated) the final solution: the solution reached after the last of several dissolutions of solute(s) in solvent(s) 1898–1899, Zeitschrift für Elektrochemie; 5. Jahrgang (1898–1899), published by Walther Nernst and Wilhelm Borchers, page 219: For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Endlösung. ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Endlösung” in Duden online