Eighty-three years ago today, on January 20, 1942 (December 4, 1941 in the lunar calendar), the Nazis determined a final solution for dealing with the Jews: genocide. A group of German SS troops are concentrating Ukrainian Jews January 20, 1942. Nazi leaders meet in Berlin to discuss the fate of Jews in Germany and the occupied territories. Under Reinhardt Heydrich, known as the "European executioner," officials called the solution a "final solution," which is genocide. It is believed that a total of 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II. Death, Adolf-Hitler and his aides said, was the only fate these so-called inferior people deserved. Auschwitz, the crematorium, the survivors of the concentration camp, the piles of the rings of the victims, the wooden blocks where the victims stood at the time of the hanging, which were too low for the victims to suffer more before they died, the bones of a day at Buchenwald, which were not large, the poisoned clothes and shoes of Jews