The Holocaust was full of atrocities that anyone would want to mention. Yet there is so much about this event that we don't completely know. Without knowing it, or at least without understanding it, we can never hope that such atrocities will not happen again. An unanswered question is whether Adolf Hitler, the leader, or the "Führer" as they call him, planned the mass execution of millions of Jews or whether he simply took advantage of the circumstances presented to him. 'a deadly punch. Through analysis of a myriad of facts, it is easy to understand that one cannot dispute whether or not Hitler necessarily planned the "Final Solution", but one can determine that he, at the very least , had the idea from the beginning. What You Need to Know During the Holocaust, Hitler and the Nazis began herding Jews into confined spaces, called ghettos. They continued to expand these ghettos with Jews whom they removed from the territories conquered on the fronts of the war they were waging. Later, they began executing Jews in the streets using mobile extermination units. The Nazis then quickly moved from shooting with firearms to assassination with gas (Zyklon-B in particular). This entire process of mass execution of Jews is called the “Final Solution” or “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The name "Final Solution" was used by the Nazis as one of their many euphemisms, in order to disguise the true nature of their ambitions ("Final Solution": overview). The “Final Solution” is the central idea behind the Holocaust and is what ultimately drove the Nazis into their anti-Semitic craze. In order to understand much of the Holocaust and the hierarchical system, one must understand some o..... .middle of paper ......Final solution. The History Place, February 7, 2012. Web. February 2, 2014. .McFee, Gord. “When did Hitler decide on the Final Solution? Holocaust-History.com. Np, October 28, 2013. Web. January 27, 2014. “Reinhard Heydrich.” Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, nd Web. February 19, 2014. “The Wannsee Conference.” The Wannsee Conference. Np, January 22, 2014. Web. February 2, 2014. “What was the final solution? » The final solution. Np, January 21, 2014. Web. January 31. 2014. .