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248 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR<br />

Reinhardt) was operating at Birkenau, with 2,505 detainees assigned to<br />

it as <strong>of</strong> 19 June. 726<br />

In 1999 Bertrand Perz and Thomas Sandkühler tried to prove that<br />

even in the case <strong>of</strong> Auschwitz Aktion Reinhardt stood for an alleged extermination,<br />

727 but this thesis has no historical foundation. 728<br />

Summarizing what has been stated in chapter 7, Heydrich<br />

was appointed by Göring as head <strong>of</strong> the Reichszentrale für jüdische<br />

Auswanderung in Berlin on 24 January 1939;<br />

requested Eichmann on 15 July 1939 to set up a Zentralstelle für<br />

jüdische Auswanderung in Prague ;<br />

wrote to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Minister <strong>of</strong> Foreign Affairs, on 24<br />

June 1940 saying that the Jewish problem could not be solved “by<br />

emigration” but required “a territorial final solution;”<br />

prohibited the Jewish emigration from France and Belgium on 20<br />

May 1941 in an effort to render the emigration <strong>of</strong> “Jews from the<br />

Reich territory” easier;<br />

was entrusted by Göring on 31 July 1941 with the task <strong>of</strong> making<br />

preparations “for a comprehensive solution <strong>of</strong> the Jewish question<br />

within the German sphere <strong>of</strong> influence in Europe” in “addition” to<br />

the tasks Göring had given him on 21 January 1939, viz. to resolve<br />

“the Jewish question by means <strong>of</strong> emigration or evacuation;”<br />

was requested by Himmler on 18 September 1941 to implement the<br />

Judenwanderung (Jewish migration) via od;<br />

declared in Prague on 10 October 1941 that it was being planned to<br />

deport 50,000 Jews from the Protectorate to Minsk and Riga between<br />

15 October and 15 November, where they were to be housed<br />

“in the camps for communist detainees in the operational territory;”<br />

reported on 20 January 1942 during the Wannsee meeting on the<br />

policy <strong>of</strong> Jewish emigration directed by himself, thanks to which<br />

some 537,000 Jews had emigrated from the Reich territory by 31<br />

October 1941, and stated that the Reichsführer SS had “forbidden<br />

any further emigration <strong>of</strong> Jews in view <strong>of</strong> the dangers posed by emigration<br />

in wartime and the looming possibilities in the East” and<br />

726<br />

727<br />

728<br />

“Übersicht über Anzahl und Einsatz der weiblichen Häftlinge des Konzentrationslagers<br />

Auschwitz O/S,” 30 June 1944. GARF, 7021-108-33, p. 157.<br />

Bertrand Perz, Thomas Sandkühler, “Auschwitz und die ‘Aktion Reinhard’ 1942-1945.<br />

Judenmord und Raubpraxis in neuer Sicht,” in: Zeitgeschichte, No. 5, vol. 26, 1999, pp.<br />

283-318.<br />

Cf. in this respect C. Mattogno “Azione Reinhard” e “Azione 1005,” Effepi, Genova,<br />

2008.

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