Fourth Delivery

1. Who proposed the "Final Solution"?
The Final Solution was a Nazi plan to kill all the Jewish people in Europe. It was the most deadly phase of the Holocaust. The final solution was proposed by Heinrich Himmler.

2. Which was the alternative proposed for this event?
The alternative to the "Final Solution" was the"Euthanasia Program". Bringing the killers and the victims eye to eye created psychological problems for the executioners, so this was the reason why this alternative was created. The physical setting of the concentration camps could be combined with the techniques learned in the euthanasia program. The euthanasia program known as T-4 was developed in Germany to kill the mentally and physically defective. The first gassing experiments were conducted in Auschwitz in September 1941.

3. What is the "D" Day?
The D Day or Invasion of Normandy was a 1944 Allied assault on Nazi-occupied northern Europe that assembled the largest force in the history of amphibious warfare and represented a major turning point in World War II . The Allied forces consisted of 20 U.S. divisions, 14 British divisions, 3 Canadian divisions, a French division, and a Polish division. On the first day of the invasion, June 6, about 120,000 Allied troops landed at five beach locations along the coast of the French province of Normandy after crossing the English Channel from bases in southern England. The Allies faced a force of about 50,000 Germans and suffered nearly 5,000 casualties on the first day alone but succeeded in securing the beaches from which they launched their offensive. Many historians consider the D-Day invasion the greatest military achievement of the 20th century.

4. Mention two important officers for the SS.

• Gunter d'Alquen
• Albert Brummenbaum

5. S.O.S.
In 1944 summer, the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur arrived. All the Jews in the concentration camp gathered to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah praying. Although all Jews celebrated it, Elie began wondering if God really existed, because if he did he wouldn't allowed so much suffering, and he also wonder if there were good reasons to pray. He also thinks that God hates Jews and that he has chosen them to be killed. He also got to think that men are more powerful than God. Later that day, Elie talks with his father about the situation but he didn't find hope in his father but just desperation.
Around the Jewish New Year, Elie is separated from his father, and days later it is announced that there will be a selection. Elie gets very worried because he thinks that his father will not pass the selection. Elie got very shocked when he gets to know that his father didn't pass the selection and that he will be killed. Before seeing his father for the last time(or at least this is what Elie thinks) he gives Elie his only belongings, a knife and a spoon.
When Elie finished working, he found out something really wonderful, his father isn't dead, he wasn't executed. This was because there was another selection among the already condemned and Elie's father achieved to pass it. However, Akiba Drumer didn't pass the second selection because he had lost his hope to live and he's executed. Elie tells that despair has become so great among the Jews prisoners, that even a rabbi has lost his faith toward God.
When winter arrives, prisoners star suffering diseases. Elie is operated during this season because of a problem with his foot. During this season it appears a shine of hope, because it is known that Russian army is approaching to the concentration camp. But before prisoners could get happy, Germans evacuate Jews from the camp due to the Russian approaching. Elie and his father were recovering in the enfermery but they choose to evacuate the camp with the other Jews because they thought that people in the enfermery would be killed before the Germans left. Elie as a narrator tells that this was a mistake, because those who were recovering in the enfermery were freed by the Russians.
I think that in this part of the story, the war is about to be finished and be lost by Germany, that's why Jewish prisoners are started to be executed more frequently. Jewish despair is bigger than never. I think that the Russian takeover of the concentration camp was in the D Day. Desperation has also arrived to the Nazi.