On December 19, 1939 the RSHA office chiefs met to discuss the “Final Solution of the German Jewish Problem” During this meeting, officials talked about if they should establish a Jewish “reservation” in Poland or whether they should do something else about the Jews. The new idea that discussed was the possibility of mass extermination of Jews. In response to the Jewish question, the mass extermination of Jews would not be an answer to this but as a means of removing large numbers of both Jews and Poles to help further Germanization. What happened after this can be seen as the beginning of the Holocaust. The euthanasia program was established as a means of mass killings by gas chambers and crematories. The Germans saw a success in euthanasia
