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238 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
There are other limitations concerning the press, the use of names,
agricultural matters, as well as measures aiming at limiting population
growth, such as abortions.
On 17 July 1941 Himmler, in his role as Reichskommissar für die
Festigung des deutschen Volkstums (Reich commissar for the consolidation
of German ethnicity) 681 named SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik,
at the time head of SS and police in Lublin, to the post of Beauftragter
für die Errichtung der SS- und Polizeistützpunkte im neuen Ostraum
(commissioner for the installation of SS and police agencies in the
new eastern region). In a note written on 21 July 1941, item 13, Himmler
ordered that the commissioner should “primarily issue orders, by autumn,
for the installation of the SS and police agencies in the new eastern
region.” 682 As Jan Erik Schulte tells us, “other orders issued by
Himmler from Lublin indicate as well that he wanted to make use of detainees
for projects arising in connection with the settling of the
East.” 683
Himmler’s high-flying projects transpire in his secret order of 5 December
1941 concerning the “use of detainees from concentration
camps” transmitted to the head of RSHA, SS-Gruppenführer Reinhardt
Heydrich, to the inspector of the concentration camps SS-Brigadeführer
Richard Glücks, to all camp commanders, and to SS-Gruppenführer
Oswald Pohl, head of SS-Hauptamt Verwaltung und Wirtschaft (Main
Office for administration and economy). He ordered Pohl to train, “by
the date of a peace agreement, for the projects to be undertaken from
that moment on: 1) at least 5,000 stone masons, 2) at least 10,000 bricklayers.”
The size of this endeavor can be judged from the fact that Germany
had only 4,000 stone masons before the war. After the peace treaty
the company Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH was to provide at
least 10,000 cubic meters of granite annually “for the Führer’s major
construction projects.” 684
As Schulte states: 685
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To implement this task, which Hitler had given him with his decree of 7 October 1939,
Himmler set up the “RKF office” (Dienststelle RKF [Reichskommissar für die Festigung
deutschen Volkstums]) directed by SS-Oberführer Ulrich Greifelt, which changed into
“RKF-Stabshauptamt” (Central staff agency RKF) in June of 1941.
NO-3031.
J.E. Schulte, op. cit. (note 675), p. 44.
NO-385.
J.E. Schulte, op. cit. (note 675), p. 48.