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In January of 1942, at a meeting known as the Wannsee Conference, in the middle of WWII, the German authorities decided to implement the final solution'in other words, a plan for the deportation en masse of the Jewish population to the east for the purpose of using them as forced labor. It was foreseen that many of them would die from the horrible conditions in which they were to be kept, and it was anticipated that the survivors would need to be ?treated accordingly,? i.e. exterminated (see Appendix 6). This was indeed the goal of the final solution: to terminate the Jewish presence in Europe, once and for all. The plan, which consisted of eliminating all the European Jewish populations, included a high degree of state planning and technological innovation, thus constituting one of the process's most outstanding features: Technological advances and productive rationality would explicitly not be employed to enrich mankind or even to produce goods, but to systematically and rationally plan an entire complex of machinery, personnel, new technologies, transport, civil servants, bureaucratic orders, etc., and set up an efficient chain of production with which to kill the greatest number of people in the most effective and efficient way possible'the goal was in and of itself to murder that part of the population.