Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution Miniseries Episode 2 Orders and Initiatives ( Air Date 2005-01-18 ) Genre Documentary, Crime, War & Politics category. Overview "Laurence Rees continues his documentary history, marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with an account of how the Nazis developed their ""Final Solution"". By 1942, Rudolf Hess had established the camp as a place to murder thousands of Jews, Slavs, Roma Gypsies.".