If you’re interested in WWII and history you might find this interesting.

Emigration. Evacuation. Total solution. Final Solution.
Historians of the Holocaust may disagree as to exactly when this euphemistic
Nazi phraseology took on its deadliest meaning. No single document has
ever been found in which Hitler himself explicitly ordered the annihilation
of European Jewry. Most historians agree, however, that at some point
in 1941, after the launch of the Russian campaign (Operation Barbarossa),
“evacuation” became more widely understood in the Nazi hierarchy as
a codeword for systematic, industrial-scale murder, orchestrated by
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, and, until his assassination in the
late spring of 1942, his second, Reinhard Heydrich. By that spring,
the gas chambers were no longer experimental; they were operating to
their full, ghastly capacity.

Two crucial, surviving documents frame the period in which the ultimate
meaning of the Final Solution went from theory to practice. First is
a letter of July 31, 1941 (drafted by Adolf Eichmann at Heydrich’s bequest)
in which Reichsmarshall Hermann G

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