Lamprecht wrote:borjastick wrote:Didn't some of the jewish leaders in Germany pre-war describe the issue of jews in the country thus - 'the jewish problem for which we need a final solution'. They meant of course the exit to Palestine of all those jews who could afford to travel and with the proviso they would be of any use to the fledgling state of israel.
Talk of a "solution to the Jewish question" was happening long before Hitler ever came to power. Famous Zionist Jew Theodor Herzl described Zionism as the "solution of the Jewish question."
See: Memo of Nov. 22, 1899. R. Patai, ed., The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl (New York: 1960), Vol. 3, p. 888.
also: T. Herzl, "Der Kongress," Welt, June 4, 1897. Reprinted in: Theodor Herzls zionistische Schriften (Leon Kellner, ed.), erster Teil, Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1920, p. 190 (and p. 139).
and: Theodor Herzl, A Solution To The Jewish Question, January 17 1896. https://archive.org/details/HerzlSolutionJewishQuestion
Herzl and other Zionists just didn't call it a/the "final solution to the Jewish question".
To NS-Germany physical removal of Jews from their sphere of influence would however be a 'final solution'.
From the NS-perspective Jews were the fermenters of policies against Germany, hence removing them from countries that could go to war with Germany would mean an end to that kind of fermentation. This doesn't exclude killing them, but it isn't necessary neither.
