Jews Outside Europe Under Axis Occupation

The "Final solution" plan aspired to destroy all the Jews of the world. "... the Nazis sought to murder every Jew everywhere". Hitler's Speech in Munich, 24 February, 1939: "the Jewish question today was no longer a German problem: it had become a world problem." quoted in N H Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, Oxford University Press, 1942, Volume I, pp.743) In the summer of 1941 - Himmler said: "the Fuehrer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved once and for all ... The Jews are the sworn enemies of the German people and must be eradicated. Every Jew that we can lay our hands on is to be destroyed now during the war, without exception. ... obliterate the biological basis of Jewry' (Reference: C ommandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1959).