Poll: When do you think you first heard the term 'final solution' in connection to the Holocaust'?

[mikeymikec]

I can't think of anything to add here, I'm just curious about what the results will show.

My own experience: My parents watched a drama-documentary that I think was called something like 'The Final Solution', and learnt more from there. In hindsight I think it's quite odd how my mandatory education didn't go into much detail about the crimes of the Nazis, more like a one-paragraph summary along the lines of "they rounded up millions of people, largely Jews, and killed them in concentration camps". At some point I went on a Wikipedia binge to learn more about the rise to power, because I was curious for a long time how the German people seemingly just let it happen (my initial impression).

 

[SKORPI0]

World History class in High School, probably at the age of 13/14.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

The Final Solution (German: Endlösung) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (German: die Endlösung der Judenfrage, pronounced [diː ˈɛntˌløːzʊŋ deːɐ̯ ˈjuːdn̩ˌfʁaːɡə]) was a Nazi plan for the Genocide or extermination of the Jews during World War II. The "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach, which was not restricted to the European continent.[1] This policy of deliberate and systematic genocide starting across German-occupied Europe was formulated in procedural and geo-political terms by Nazi leadership in January 1942 at the Wannsee Conference held near Berlin,[2] and culminated in the Holocaust, which saw the killing of 90% of Polish Jews,[3] and two thirds of the Jewish population of Europe.[4]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I really don’t like Nazis.

 

[glenn1]

World History class in High School, probably at the age of 13/14.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

Sounds basically correct although we got the basic idea of the Holocaust earlier. I don't remember going into huge detail even in high school though and it's not like we got lessons about Kristallnacht or other events related to Nazi history or if we did they were extremely summary in nature. Of course when I was growing up as an early Gen X'er the focus of history in primary school was much different and didn't much concern itself with much outside the U.S. and Western Europe. The very little we got in passing about non white peoples was subtly dismissive to borderline racist (e.g. mentions of the Chinese Opium Wars) and I grew up in the northeast not some random rural town in Jim Crow deep south.

 

[zinfamous]

PSA: "learned" is actually a word, folks.

 

[mikeymikec]

PSA: "learned" is actually a word, folks.

As is "learnt" :?

 

[pauldun170]

“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 of the Jewish question.”
- Herman Goering 1941

Learned that stuff back in the 20th century. I think I came across it during 80's.
Probably while rocking the microfiche machine.

 

[trenchfoot]

I really don’t like Nazis.

Well from looking at your avatar, you especially don't like the ones from the military officer ranks I'm thinking?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

As is "learnt" :?

Duh... It's LURNT. you don't spell BURNT BEARNT do you?

 

[woolfe9998]

When I saw this mini-series with my parents (1978):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077025/?ref_=nv_sr_7

This program evidently introduced the word "Holocaust" (derived from the Hebrew word Shoah) to English speaking audiences.

 

[Genx87]

By 2nd or 3rd grade reading history books.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I probably first heard it in the late 50s or early 60s. I'm guessing I was around 9 or 10. Didn't really understand it for a few more years though.