Grammar question.....should "final solution" be capitalized?

I'm working on a paper on the Holocaust.....in the introduction, I note it as "the Third Reich's 'Final Solution'".

Is this correct? Or should it be "the Third Reich's 'final solution'"?

 

If you're putting it in quotation marks, I would say yes.

 

Many years ago I went to a live performance of The Wannsee Conference, a play with a dialogue comprised mostly of a transcript from the actual event. I don't think I've ever been so bored. You'd think it would have an endless morbid appeal, but no. Big logistical questions requiring lots of detailed record keeping really played to German cultural strengths. But yeah, I'd capitalize it.

 

Yes.

 

It's a proper noun, because it's the name of an official government program enacted by the Third Reich. Consequently, capitalization is both appropriate and necessary.

 

I see what you did there.

 

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

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I was just about to come in and make tom's post.

 

Yeah, capitalize it. It's being used as a proper noun since it was a government program. I was going to be snarky and be like, "MLA, APA, or Chicago?" like I have to ask when I'm working with a client at the Writing Center on campus (I'm a tutor there).

 

Just call it "DAS YUDEN SVIGGEN!!"

All caps. With exclaimation points.

 

You know who else capitalized proper nouns?

 

Gerald Ford?

 

Don't forget to include this in your paper, Aytee

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