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216 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
By these measures, the basis for a final solution intended for the
future has also been established in White Ruthenia.”
These measures were nothing but the actual implementation of the
policy set out in the “Brown File,” which specified a future solution to
the Jewish question “after the war” for the whole of Europe.
The available railway documents 628 enable us merely to reconstruct a
portion of the whole picture for the Jewish transports that were moved
directly into the eastern territories. The transports coming in from the
Reich were arranged by the German Reichsbahn via the Königsberg
Reichsbahn directorate whose task it was to inform all agencies concerned.
The transports were labeled “Da” 629 and numbered successively.
The empty trains, labeled “Lp,” were given a number above 1,000. Altogether
66 such transports are known. Between 8 November 1941 and
28 November 1942 they moved 56,221 Jews 630 into the eastern territories,
comprising
26 transports from the Altreich with 16,057 persons aboard
11 transports from the Protectorate with 11,000 persons aboard
29 transports from Vienna with 29,164 persons aboard
The destinations of these transports were: Baranovii (1), Kaunas
(2), Maly Trostinec (5), Minsk (34), Raasiku (1), Riga (23).
In the period between 17 November 1941 631 and 6 February 1942,
there were 25 transports conveying a total of 25,103 persons to Riga, 632
but only 15,114 can be found on the list published in the source mentioned.
This brings the total number of persons deported to
[56,221+(25,103–15,114)=] 66,210. The Korherr report helps us in
closing the gaps in the documents and to draw a complete picture of the
deportations of Jews into the East for 1942. We will come back to this
question in chapter 9.4.
The National-Socialist policy towards the Jews, as discussed above,
is well documented in all its aspects and in all its twists and turns (start-
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A number of documents on the subject of the transports towards the East can be found in
the National Archives of the Byelorussian Republic (Natsionalni Archiv Respubliki Belarus,
Minsk, subsequently quoted as NARB) in file number 378-1-784.
According to some authors, this abbreviation stood for “David.” Hilberg asserts that the
symbol “Da” stood for “Judentransporte außerhalb Polens zusammengestellt.” R. Hilberg,
Sonderzüge nach Auschwitz, Dumjahn, Munich 1981, p. 76. German railway documents
indicate that the persons transported were labeled “Aussiedler” (emigrants).
List of transports in: C. Mattogno, J. Graf, op. cit. (note 10, Engl. ed.), pp. 200f.
This transport reached Riga on 19 November.
Enclosure to “Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten” No. 10, 3. July 1942. RGVA,
500-1-775, p. 233.