Bormann was invariably the advocate of extremely harsh , radical measures when it came to the treatment of Jews , the conquered eastern peoples , and prisoners of war . He signed the decree of 31 May 1941 extending the 1935 Nuremberg Laws to the annexed territories of the East . Thereafter , he signed the decree of 9 October 1942 prescribing that the permanent Final Solution in Greater Germany could no longer be solved by emigration , but only by the use of " ruthless force in the special camps of the East " , that is , extermination in Nazi death camps . A further decree , signed by Bormann on 1 July 1943 , gave Adolf Eichmann absolute powers over Jews , who now came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Gestapo . Historian Richard J. Evans estimates that 5.5 to 6 million Jews , representing two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe , were exterminated by the Nazi regime in the course of The Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Martin Bormann