The Origins of the Final SolutionPublished by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regimes plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and total mass murder of all Jews within the Nazi grasp. The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever written of what took place