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Had to pack the bags to go away, so that was the reason for curtailing our difference of opinion. Could see it dragging on endlessly with no final solution.

Suggest you read some of these other posts. There are people on here absolutely convinced it is a direct reference to the Holocaust.

Oh....go on then. I'm a sucker for a good deal.

Yes, just had a word with myself and despite the Jewish blood in my family, still can't bet my mortgage on it. Still, you are completely sure, so we had better let the matter end there.

Most educated people would consider that it was likely that it was being used in a way to suggest mass killing, which " the Final Solution " has come to symbolise but their intelligence wouldn't allow them to rule out the possibility of her words being used in a much wider/broader context.

Probably not but it is still not entirely clear whether it was a direct reference or a very general comment. I don't believe Hopkins to be of high intellect more an individual with an eye to the main chance. An opportunist. She didn't give a lot of thought to what she said but then neither did a...

No I am not. What I was trying to say was that the Nazi's were fond of grand rhetoric and sweeping generalisations,,,," the Final Solution "...." Tomorrow the World "....." a Thousand Year Reich "...etc etc. It was a series of carefully planned and thought through soundbites. We need to be clear...

The ' Final Solution ' of the Nazi's principally targetted European Jewry, not all Jews. They knew that Jews ( of which there were many ) in the USA were untouchable. It was not a final solution as such, as that would have involved the eradication of the entire world population of Jews. Their...