Some of the short term effects of the Holocaust “Final Solution” are that the survivors from the concentration camps found it close to impossible to be able to return to their homes. Something that was even harder for those people were the fact that most of them had lost at least one family member and many even more, and these survivors had to learn that they were not only going to have to return home but they were going to have to return home without there family members, friends and loved ones that they had lost. And the last short term effect is that for decades after the Germans struggled with the legacy of the Holocaust, and could not seem to forget what had happened because of all the guilt they had which most carried on their backs for the years and years after.