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250 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
evacuation.” It follows that Aktion Reinhardt in its main aspect, “resettlement”
(Aussiedlung), was nothing but the implementation of this
task. And the executor Globocnik acted in his quality of commissioner
for the installation of SS and police agencies in the new eastern region.
This is borne out, moreover, by the fact that the resettlement entrusted
to Globocnik was not limited to Jews, but comprised Poles and
Ukrainians as well, as we can see from three documents relative to Aktion
Reinhardt, assembled in the document file PS-4024: “measures for
the conciliation of the foreign ethnicities in the case of resettlement,” 732
“measures for further resettlement,” 733 and the “note” of 1 st July 1943,
which described the operation “Werwolf 1” targeting the evacuations
from an area surrounding the German settlement area in the Lublin district
and the creation of a protective belt of Ukrainian settlements. 734 In
this respect Himmler gave specific directives two days later, which also
mentioned the operation Werwolf. 735
The report written by SS-Hauptsturmführer Helmut Müller of the
Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Main Office for Race and Settlement)
on 15 October 1941 to the head of this office, SS-Gruppenführer Otto
Hofmann, documents that Globocnik was entertaining grandiose plans
of resettlement, which had brought him into trouble with the local authorities.
He dreamed of cleansing the General Government of Jews and
Poles and of creating a territory for German settlements in the Lublin
district with Himmler’s approval. 736 Even then Globocnik acted in his
role as commissioner for the installation of SS and police agencies in
the new eastern region, not as the man in charge of an extermination of
the Jews.
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“Maßnahmen zur Beruhigung der Fremdvölkischen bei der Umsiedlung,” PS-4024, IMT,
vol. XXXIV, pp. 63-65.
“Maßnahmen für die weitere Umsiedlung,” ibid., pp. 65f.
Ibid., pp. 66-68.
Letter from Himmler to Frank dated 3 July 1943. NO-2444.
NO-5875.