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The Nazis didn't really start any "final solution" until late 1942/early 1943, and even then it wasn't all that widely known in the general population. Before that it was mostly about census data for segregation and such.

To say that "Watson got the Iron Cross for his efforts at the final solution" is hugely misleading.

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This is not correct. The Wannsee conference took place in January 1942, concentration camps were actively killing during 1942. Before that there were the mobile killing units, the SS Einsatzgruppen that already systematically killed more than a million Jews in the occupied parts of the Soviet Union during 1941-1942.

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