"80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the 'Final Solution.' It Took 90 Minutes" - NY Times

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2. People make way too much of this

The final solution was horrific, sure.
But what they were already doing prior to that was horrific as well.

Before the final solution, they were rounding up Jews, stealing everything from them, raping them, killing them for any reason or for no reason in broad daylight with impunity, sending them to concentration camps, killing many of them, extracting slave labor from the rest, denying them basic necessities, and keeping them in situations that caused disease and more deaths.

So what was the final solution?

Pretty much the same, they just skipped the slave labor part. They just made the killing more efficient.

Horrific, yes. But they were already deep into horrific by that point.