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334 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
“Until the outbreak of war, emigration was ostensibly encouraged;
Chancellor Hitler said that he would willingly give a thousand
mark note to every Jew who would leave. In practice, however, less
humane and more effective methods of promoting Jewish emigration
were adopted. Life in Germany was made impossible for Jews in order
to induce them to leave, and when they left they had to abandon
almost all their property. At the same time, a moral obligation to receive
the Jews was imposed on other nations.
With the extension of German conquests, the aims of Germany’s
Jewish policy were widened to embrace the ‘liberation of all Europe
from the Jewish yoke.’ Not only the deportation and segregation of
the Jews, but their extermination [1021] also was an openly proclaimed
objective of German policy. But the main factor which changed the
character of the anti-Jewish measures lay in the changed conditions
themselves. With the progress of the war, emigration possibilities
became more and more restricted. On the other hand, Germany was
now able to send Jews to non-German territories under German
control, so that as stimulated emigration declined, deportation increased.
The Jews were either expelled to ‘purge’ [1022] a given country
or city of its Jewish element, or they were concentrated in specific
regions, cities or parties of cities to ‘purge’ the rest of the locality.
[1023]
It must be emphasised that the wholesale and recurrent removal
of Jews is at the same time an effective method of securing their
economic extermination. No regard is had to their prospects of earning
a livelihood; on the contrary, the transfer is carried out in such a
way as to make it impossible for the Jew to reorganize his economic
life. His relations not only with the Gentiles but also with his own
people are severed; and if he succeeds in establishing new connections
they are again broken by a further move. Because of the various
methods used to secure the segregation and concentration of
Jews, they are uprooted over and over and prevented from striking
1021 In NS lingo “Vernichtung” or “Ausrottung.” The significance of the term will be explained
below; author’s comment.
1022 In NS lingo: to carry out a “Bereinigung” or to render “judenfrei;” author’s comment.
1023 This was actually the usual procedure. For example, the counties (Kreise) of Biala Podlaska
and Radzin in the Lublin district jointly selected Miendzyrzec “als jüdisches
Wohngebiet”; as this community was part of Radzin county, Biala Podlaska county
ended up “judenfrei.” Lemberger Zeitung, no 246, 17 October 1942, p. 5, “Die erste judenfreie
Stadt im GG;” author’s comment.