Hitler had a check done on his paternal grandfather, who's race he didn't know. It was found that he was a Jew. These results were ordered to be kept secret by Hitler.
Hitler had a check done on his paternal grandfather, who's race he didn't know. It was found that he was a Jew. These results were ordered to be kept secret by Hitler.
==Final Solution==
==Final Solution==
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He was responsible for the deaths of millions of [[Jew]]s, many disabled persons, and [[homosexual]]s, along with many other groups, through the so-called "final solution", although [[Lucy Dawidowicz]], a leading scholar in the [[Intentionalist]] school of Holocaust historiography has dismissed as not worthy of mention the "prostitutes, homosexuals, perverts, and common criminals" incarcerated by the Nazi. <ref>Lucy S. Dawidowicz, ''The Holocaust and the Historians'' (Cambridge, MA, 1981), p. 8.[http://web.archive.org/web/20010121143900/http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/resources/books/annual7/chap12.html#2]</ref>
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The Final Solution to the Jewish Question in Europe was implemented by a government of a modern Western state to exterminate people of Jewish ancestry throughout Germany and all its occupied territories. Approximately six million people of all ages--men, women and children, were systematically murdered under a policy directed by Adolf Hitler. Other groups of "undesirables" and "asocials" were all targeted and killed.