 Ramba uchiverenga ndima ino - Pashure pokupinda muPoland muna September 1939, purogiramu yepachivande yeAktion T4 ye euthanasia - kuurayiwa kwakarongwa kwevarwere vokuGermany, Austria, nePoland vaiva muzvipatara vaiva nepfungwa kana kuti vaiva vakaremara mumuviri kwakanga kwabvumirwa naHitler; - yakatangwa neSS kuitira kuti ibvise upenyu husina kukodzera upenyu , zita raishandiswa nevaNazi kuvanhu vavaiona sokuti vakanga vasina kodzero yokurarama. Muna 1941, ruzivo rwakawanwa mukuuraya muchivande varwere vepachipatara ava rwakaita kuti pave nemisasa yokuparadza nokuda kwokuitwa kweFinal Solution. Panguva iyoyo, vaJudha vakanga vatovharirwa mumaghetto matsva uye vakaiswa mumisasa yechibharo yeNazi pamwe chete nemamwe mapoka akanangwa, kubatanidza vaRoma, uye vasungwa vehondo veSoviet. Endlösung der Judenfrage yeNazi Mhinduro Yokupedzisira yeBvunzo yechiJudha, yakavakirwa pakuuraya kwakarongwa kwevaJudha veEurope negasi, yakatanga mukati meOperation Reinhard, pashure pokutanga kwehondo yeNazi-Soviet muna June 1941. Kugamuchirwa kwemichina yegasi neGermany yeNazi kwakatangira nokuuraya kwakaitwa nemaoko kwakaitwa neSS Einsatzgruppen, avo vakatevera uto reWehrmacht panguva yeOperation Barbarossa paEastern Front. 