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As a result of this policy and despite many difficulties, Heydrich
stressed, roughly 537,000 Jews had emigrated by 31 October 1941:
“Of these,
ca. 360,000 left the Altreich [Germany with its 1937 borders].
ca. 147,000 left the Ostmark [Austria after 15 March 1938],
ca. 30,000 left the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [after
15 March 1939].”
The protocol goes on to say:
“In the meantime, the Reichsführer-SS and Head of the German
Police [i.e. Himmler] has forbidden any further emigration of Jews
in view of the dangers posed by emigration in wartime and the looming
possibilities in the East.
III. As a further possible solution, and with the appropriate prior
authorization by the Führer, emigration has now been replaced by
evacuation to the East. This operation should be regarded only as a
provisional option, though in view of the coming final solution of the
Jewish question it is already supplying practical experience of vital
importance.”
Hence, on Hitler’s orders, expulsion to the occupied territories in the
East replaced any voluntary or forced emigration of the European Jews
to Madagascar, but it was to be only a “temporary possibility” while
awaiting a definitive solution of this question to be realized after the
end of the war.
As early as August of 1940 Hitler had announced his intention to
evacuate all European Jews after the war. 604 On 7 March 1942 Goebbels
noted in his diary: 605
“The Jewish question must now be resolved on a comprehensive
European scale. There are more than 11 million Jews in Europe. [606]
At a later date, they will have to be initially concentrated in the East.
Possibly, after the war, they could be given an island, say Madagascar.
In any case, Europe will not be at peace as long as the Jews
have not been neutralized completely on European soil.”
604
605
606
Luther’s memorandum for Rademacher dated 15 August 1940, in: Auswärtiges Amt,
Documents on German Foreign Policy 1918-1945, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Series
D, Volume X, London 1957, p. 484.
Fraenkel, Heinrich, Roger Manvell, Goebbels, eine Biographie, Verlag Kiepenheuer &
Witsch, Collogne-Berlin 1960, p. 256.
Excessively high figure, taken from the population statistics given on p. 6 of the Wannsee
Protokoll.