Localized final solutions: Nazi extermination process(es) from a micro to a macro scale of action

Abstract

The present paper attempts to demonstrate that the decision for implementing a final solution and therefore begin the process of total physical extermination of the Jewish people didn't necessarily come to the mind of the perpetrators until it was already implemented at a local level on the Eastern front in the summer of 1941. More to the point, the final inspiration for employing mass destruction techniques came from places like Ukraine and the Baltic Countries, which in the context of failing solutions such as deportation and ghettoization proved to be the only remaining alternative in order to get rid once and for all of the "unwanted" populations in the Third Reich.