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-     Hitler was in full responsible for the order for the mass executions in Poland in 1939 and 1940. He was overly actively engaged in setting up plans for a Jewish reservation in Poland and he backed the Madagascar plan. He was continually preoccupied with further deportations and deportation plans.-     In 1941 Hitler ordered the extermination of every electric potential enemy in the occupied Eastern territories. He was fully mindful of mass executions of Jewish civilians in the occupied Eastern territories. -     In middle September 1941 Hitler ordered the beginning of mass deportations from Germany to ghettos in Eastern Europe. During gloam 1941 and the following Winter, when preparation for the "Final Solution" in Europe were in full swing, Hitler spoke at various occasions openly some the annihilation of the Jews in Europe. It can be ruled out that the spacious preparations for the systematic murder of European Jews in extermination camps in Poland, undertaken in Spring and Summer of 1942, were taken without his consent or his knowledge. -     Private diaries of national socialist propaganda maestro Joseph Goebbels and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler in person ordered the mass extermination of Jews on December 12, 1941 during a concussion of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer stubborn to make a clean sweep." -     And from a number of letters and speeches of Himmler it becomes clear, that the Reichsfhrer SS referred to the final solution as a task which he had to carry out on the behalf of the highest authority in the Third Reich - Adolf Hitler.-     In Germany concentration camps were set up after 1933 to detain without legal procedure Jews, Communists, Gypsies, h omosexuals, and others. During world war II extermination, or death, camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children. In the close notorious camps - Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Majdanek in Poland, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany - more than 6 million people, loosely Jews and Poles, were killed in gas chambers. Millions of others were also interned during the war, and a large proportion died of gross mistreatment, malnutrition, and disease. -     The idea that the Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended is a difficult concept, but this is an important point. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were.