Final Solution

January 20, 1942.

15 high-ranking Nazi criminals got together in a city, which today is part of Berlin, called Wannsee, and they decided the final solution to the Jewish question.

That's the official name that they gave to the Holocaust.

They came out with a list of all of the European countries, depending on the source, 9.5 in 11 million Jews.

The, the late Winston Churchill said, said it in, I think nineteen forty-one or nineteen forty-two, having received reports of the massacres by the Einsatzgruppe and the, the German killing squads in Eastern Europe in places like Babi Yar near Kiev.

He said, and I quote, "We are, we are, we are witnessing a crime without a name." The word genocide itself was created by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer who drew from both Latin and Greek to create a word for which there had been no word in the English language to describe what the Germans called the Endlösung in German, translate as the final solution, the Jüdische Frage of the Jewish question, a deliberate attempt to annihilate an entire people.

Pregnant women, children to the elderly, to wipe them off the face of the earth.

That's what the word genocide was created to describe.

In November of 2023, in a villa outside Potsdam, the fancy lake town just outside of Berlin where Truman and Stalin and Churchill sat in 1945, dividing up post-war Europe.

And about 10 minutes drive from the villa to where the Nazis planned the logistics of the final solution in 1942.

There was a retreat so secret that it took investigative reporters to expose it.

Corrective, published in January of 2024 about this meeting, it featured far-right figures from across Europe, and they sat with an Austrian identitarian named Martin Sellner, and they discussed a master plan for the mass removal of asylum seekers, foreigners with residency permits, and crucially, German citizens with migration backgrounds that they deem unassimilated.

He murdered millions of Jews, yet the Allies never even knew his name.

He takes this idea of the Final Solution and turns it into almost an assembly line process.

At the end of World War II, Eichmann hides in plain sight.

There's so much chaos that the Allies don't even realize that they have Eichmann in custody, and by the time they realize it, he's vanished.

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It's January 1942, and in a lakeside mansion near Berlin, 15 senior Nazi officials are meeting.

The topic? The systematic annihilation of Europe's Jews, what the Nazis refer to as the Final Solution.

Along with these high officials, there's one lieutenant colonel, very quiet, very unassuming, taking notes, but he's also providing information like the amount of Jews in different countries.

And, uh, you know, there's a, there's always a, a waft of chicken soup somewhere coming beneath my nostrils.

And, uh, but you, you know, I, uh, there's also a persecution of jewish people for um you know as you well know for thousands of years but but because of the content of this book uh and the persecution in 1930s in uh germany and then the road and the path to the so-called final solution i think that because i knew about that from uh from being a young teenager It's not anything I can ever let go of or, you know, push to one side.

It's part of my personality as much as rock and roll is part of my personality.

Well, the two of us have that in common.

[chuckles] You know, very important in, in terms of, um, that history, but he never got a, a New York Times obituary.

Um, and I, I just wanted to bring that up because he's not really famous for his work in American Indian activism so much as his, uh, this controversy that happened, um, arou- surrounding an essay that he wrote where he called the, uh, people who died in the 9/11 attacks or the, the Twin Towers, "Little Eichmanns," in a reference to, um, the Nazi, um, the Nazi leader who, uh, helped engineer and architect the, um, the Final Solution or the genocide of, of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

Um, and basically saying that these, uh, individuals, or implying, I guess, that these individuals, um, were Maybe just sort of cogs in a machine, um, but nevertheless, they were the button pushers and the bureaucrats.

And I guess Eichmann claimed to not be an architect.

He accepted that fate, but he made several requests to be allowed to face a firing squad.

Now, the prosecution, which was led by Justice Robert Jackson, was determined to see all the defendants pay for their wickedness.

But symbolically, they sought to hold one man responsible for the crimes of individuals, collectives and a nation.

And to see that man die as a common criminal with a rope around his neck.

But as a proud hero of World War I, holder of the Blue Max, the Iron Cross and a dozen other awards for gallantry, to be hanged as a common criminal was the greatest possible humiliation and dishonour for Goering and for Germany.

And he was never going to let that happen.

Now, to answer your question in a roundabout way, the prosecution at Nuremberg was led by Justice Jackson, who was determined to see him hung.

But his special assistant... was the great American hero, William Wild Bill Donovan, General William Wild Bill Donovan.