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244 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
“Code name for the murder of most of the Jews in the General
Government and the Byaistok region as part of the final solution.
The name was coined a few months after the beginning of the Aktion
in memory of Reinhard Heydrich, the chief planner of the ‘final solution’
in Europe, who had become the victim of an attack on his life
by members of the Czech underground. According to the minutes of
the Wannsee conference, the purpose of Aktion Reinhard was the
killing of the 2,284,000 Jews who were then living in the five districts
of the General Government – Warsaw, Lublin, Radom, Cracow
and Lemberg (Lwów).”
This claim would require that “final solution” was another “code
name” designating the biological extermination, but this assumption is
not backed up by documents. It is even in direct disagreement with the
existing documents, as we have shown in chapter 7. 711 As far as the
“Wannsee conference” is concerned, we have already explained its real
significance, which had nothing to do with any alleged plan for an extermination
of the Jews. Actually, the respective minutes do not mention
any kind of program for the mass assassination of Jews in extermination
camps, although one such camp (Chemno) was allegedly in operation
in January of 1942, with another one (Beec) under construction.
As opposed to this, the minutes sketch out a project which was
perfectly in tune with the National Socialist policy towards the Jews valid
at the time: 712
“The evacuated Jews will first be taken, group after group, to socalled
transit ghettos, from where they will be transported further to
the East.”
This is in perfect agreement with Hitler’s remark noted by Governor
Frank on 17 July 1941, which we have discussed in chapter 7 (p. 203)
and which spoke of “the General Government, with the latter becoming,
as it were, a mere transit camp.”
The following item on the agenda of the Wannsee meeting is also in
blatant contrast with an alleged policy of extermination: 712
“The intention is not to evacuate Jews over the age of 65 but to
send them to an old people’s ghetto. Theresienstadt has been earmarked
for this purpose.”
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For an in-depth study of this question we refer the reader to the study by C. Mattogno,
Raul Hilberg e i “centri di sterminio” nazionalsocialisti. Fonti e metodologia. 2008, pp.
5-24. Accessible online at the following address:
www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres8/CMhilberg.pdf
NG-2586-G, p. 8 (protocol text following the English translation on www.ghwk.de).