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190 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“This applies with particular urgency to the creation of at least temporary
possibilities for the reception of Jews from the Reich territory.”
In connection with Jews of Spanish nationality residing in occupied
France, a note by Luther of October 17, 1941, likewise mentions
“measures to be taken after the war’s end for the fundamental solution
of the Jewish question.” 544
Therefore, the Wannsee Conference had been called for the sole purpose of
announcing to the authorities concerned the shelving of the emigration policy
and the Madagascar Plan as well as the start of a policy of extensive deportation
of Jews to the east and the discussion of the problems thereby generated.
The Madagascar Plan was officially abandoned on February 10, 1942. A letter
from Rademacher to Bielfeld, a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry, dated February
10, 1942, explains why: 545
“In August 1940, I passed on to you for your files the plan devised by
my department for the final solution of the Jewish question, for which the
island of Madagascar was supposed to be demanded from France in the
peace treaty, but the practical execution of the task was to be handed over
to the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. In accordance with this plan, Gruppenführer
Heydrich was put charged by the Führer with carrying out the solution
to the Jewish problem in Europe.
In the meantime, the war against the Soviet Union has provided the
possibility of making other territories available for the final solution. The
Führer has consequently decided that the Jews will not be deported to
Madagascar, but to the east instead. Thus, Madagascar no longer needs to
be designated for the final solution.”
The ‘final solution’ was therefore of a territorial nature and consisted of the
deportation of the Jews from territories governed by Germany to the east. This
is fully consistent with another important document, the Luther Memorandum
of August 1942. In it Luther above all summarized the essential points of the
NS policy with respect to the Jews: 546
“The basis of the German Jewish policy after the [first world] war, after
the assumption of power, consisted of promoting Jewish emigration by
every means. For this purpose a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration
was created in the year 1939 by General Field Marshall Göring in his
capacity as delegate for the Four Year Plan, and the administration was
handed over to Gruppenführer Heydrich as Chief of the Security Police.”
After he had explained the genesis and development of the Madagascar
Plan, which in the meantime had been overtaken by events, Luther stressed
that Göring’s letter of July 31, 1941, resulted from Heydrich’s letter of June
544
PA, Politische Abteilung III 245, AZ Po 36, Bd. I.
545
NG-5770.
546
NG-2586-J.