On this day, Adolf Eichmann proposed The Madagascar Plan to turn the island into a massive Jewish ghetto, where the goal was for the Jews to die out. When France fell to the Nazi Party in June 1940, Madagascar, at the time a French colony, was adopted by the Germans as the ideal location for the ‘Final Solution’. This defeat of the French was the Nazis' chance to create their Gross-ghettos (super ghetto). Although a dream by the Nazis, the Madagascar Gross ghetto never came to exist. The British had a naval blockade around the territory, and the Battle of Britain in September 1940 stopped the Nazis in their hideous plan. It was permanently shelved in 1942 with the commencement of the Final Solution.