Hitler’s final solution to the Jews was mass genocide. His plan would result in the genocide of the German Jewish population and its territories. His plan called for the systematic extermination through the use of gas chambers. He eliminated the Slavs population because, just like the Jews, Hitler believed them to be racially inferior to the naturalized Germans. The Holocaust was a defining event in the twentieth century because it directly changed the lives, culture, and society of those it affected, namely the Jews and other races Hitler