1941 Order on the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"

75 years ago, on July 31, 1941, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, as authorized by the four-year plan, granted the chief of the Security Police and SD, SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, "the authority to make all the necessary preparations for the organizational, economic and material support for the final solution of the Jewish question in Europe in the territories located under German control. At that moment, the extermination of Jews in the occupied Soviet territory was already in full swing.