making it impossible for them to earn money. Thousands of Jewish businesses were forced into closure or bankruptcy making it hard for Jew’s to sustain a life. Soon after, as the Nazi's invaded European countries, they established ghettos to as a provisional measure to segregate the Jewish population from the rest of society while the Nazi leadership discussed options for the removal of the Jewish population. The official map of Ghettos in Occupied Europe (2013) displays the great amount of ghettos spread across Europe, where the vast majority of the inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to Concentration camps. A reflection of an experience inside the concentration camps (Weinstein, E 2002), illustrated the deportation to the camps and the pain and suffering brought with it. The concentration camps were used for forcing the Jews into labour and later, when the final solution was put into place, they were used for mass murdering. All of these steps were key in the journey to the final solution because they were gradually preparing the Jews for destruction.
The journey to the Nazi final solution from 1939 to 1945 was the Nazi's gradual ascent into power over Europe.
The final solution is the Nazi Policy to murder the Jews of Europe (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016). The initial journey started from merely eliminating the Jews from the German economy, then isolating Jews from the rest of society, placing them in concentration camps and then finally extended to murdering millions. Prior to world war two, the Nazi's started slowly implementing the journey to the final solution. Hitler's second in command gave orders to take all measures for the elimination of the Jews from the German economy (1938). These were called the Nuremberg Laws. They did this by freezing all Jew's assets and making it impossible for them to earn money. Thousands of Jewish businesses were forced into closure or bankruptcy making it hard for Jew’s to sustain a life. Soon after, as the Nazi's invaded European countries, they established ghettos to as a provisional measure to segregate the Jewish population from the rest of society while the Nazi leadership discussed options for the removal of the Jewish population. The official map of Ghettos in Occupied Europe (2013) displays the great amount of ghettos spread across Europe, where the vast majority of the inhabitants died from disease or starvation, were shot, or were deported to Concentration camps. A reflection of an experience inside the concentration camps (Weinstein, E 2002), illustrated the deportation to the camps and the pain and suffering brought with it. The concentration camps were used for forcing the Jews into labour and later, when the final solution was put into place, they were used for mass murdering. All of these steps were key in the journey to the final solution because they were gradually preparing the Jews for
destruction.