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186 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
In a note of October 7, 1941, Werner Koeppen, a liaison of Rosenberg’s,
wrote that on the previous day Hitler had declared the following on the Protectorate:
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“All Jews must be removed from the Protectorate, and indeed not just
into the General Gouvernement, but farther on to the east. The great need
for means of transportation is the only reason why this cannot be executed
at the moment. Along with the Protectorate Jews, all Jews should disappear
from Berlin and Vienna at the same time.”
On October 13, 1941, Frank and Rosenberg had a conversation, during
which they discussed the deportation of the Jews from the General Gouvernement:
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“The Governor General then came to speak about the possibility of deporting
the Jewish population of the General Gouvernement into the occupied
territories of the east. Reichsminister Rosenberg remarked that similar
requests were already being brought to him from the military administration
in Paris. [532] At the moment, however, he saw no possibility as yet
for the carrying out of these kinds of resettlement plans. But he announced
himself ready to promote the emigration of Jews to the east in the future,
especially since the intention existed anyhow of sending off asocial elements
within the territory of the Reich into the sparsely settled territories
of the east.”
Zeitschel’s proposal was thus accepted some months later by Hitler himself,
who resolved to temporarily shelve the Madagascar Plan and to deport all
Jews living in the occupied territories to the east. This decision of the Führer
was probably made in September 1941. On October 23, 1941, Himmler prohibited
Jewish emigration, effective at once, 533 and on the following day the
evacuation of 50,000 western Jews to the east was ordered. On October 24,
Kurt Daluege, chief of the Ordnungspolizei (the regular police force responsible
for keeping public order), issued a decree that dealt with “Evacuations of
Jews from the Old Reich and the Protectorate”: 534
“In the period from November 1 to December 4, 1941, 50,000 Jews will
be deported by the Sicherheitspolizei [Security Police] from the Old Reich,
the Ostmark [Austria] and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the
east, into the region around Riga and Minsk. The evacuations will take
place in transport trains of the Reichsbahn [German railway] for 1,000
persons at a time. The transport trains will assemble in Berlin, Hamburg,
Hanover, Dortmund, Münster, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt/M., Kassel,
531 Faschismus – Getto – Massenmord, op. cit. (note 290), p. 252.
532 A clear allusion to the proposal of SS-Sturmbannführer Carltheo Zeitschel.
533 T-394: “The Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police has ordered that the emigration
of Jews is to be prohibited effective immediately.”
534 PS-3921.