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difficulties, particularly so as the Jews in the General Government
could use their own vehicles and public roads.”
After having alluded to the situation of the Jews in France, he concluded:
“Furthermore, I suggest approaching the Reichsmarschall
[Göring] in this matter since he is, at the moment, receptive to the
Jewish problem; as his present disposition and his experience indicate,
he can certainly be expected to become a strong supporter for
the implementation of the idea expounded above.”
A plan for the removal of the Jews into the East had been considered
earlier on several occasions. On 2 April 1941, i.e. before the beginning
of the Russian campaign, Reichsminister Rosenberg had envisioned “to
make extensive use of Muscovite Russia as an area for undesirable elements
of the population.” 591
On 17 July 1941, Governor General Frank noted in his official journal:
592 “The Governor General does not favor any further ghettos because
the Führer expressly declared on 19 June that the Jews will
soon be removed from the General Government with the latter becoming,
as it were, a mere transit camp.”
On 20 August 1941, Goebbels, noted in his diary after a visit to the
Führer HQ: 593
“Furthermore, the Führer promised me that I could remove the
Jews from Berlin immediately after the termination of the eastern
campaign.”
On 24 September 1941, the day after a conversation with Heydrich
at the Führer HQ, Goebbels noted in his diary, that the Jews in the East
“would all be deported to the camps […] set up by the Bolsheviks.” 594
On the same day he wrote that the Führer’s opinion was for the Jews
to be pushed out of Germany step by step and wished: 594
“Berlin will be first in line, and I am hopeful that we will succeed
in moving a significant portion of the Berlin Jews to the East within
this year.”
On 28 September, Himmler transmitted to Arthur Greiser, Gauleiter
of the Wartheland district, Hitler’s order for the rapid deportation to the
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PS-1017.
After Martin Broszat, “Hitler und die Genesis der ‘Endlösung.’ Aus Anlaß der Thesen
von David Irving,” in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 25(4), October 1977, p. 748f.
Ibid., p. 750.
Ibid., p. 751.