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Chapter VI: National-Socialist Policy of Jewish Emigration 199
accommodate yet an additional 25,000 Jews. 567 On June 26, 1942, the Chief of
the Security Police and of the SD reported: 568
“Also in White Russia, the measures taken by the Security Police and
the SD have to cause fundamental changes in the area of the Jewish question.
In order first to bring the Jews under effective supervision, independent
of later measures yet to be taken, Jewish Councils of Elders were employed,
which are responsible to the Security Police and the SD for the attitude
of their racial comrades. Above and beyond this, the registration of
the Jews and their consolidation in ghettos has been started. Lastly, the
Jews have been made recognizable by a yellow badge to be worn on the
chest and back, after the manner of the Jewish star introduced in the Reich
territory. In order to evaluate the labor potential of the Jews, they are generally
being taken into the private labor assignments and employed in
cleaning up.
With these measures, the foundations for the later intended final solution
of the European Jewish question have been created for the White Russian
territory as well.”
The measures were nothing other than the concrete implementation of the
policy as laid out in the ‘Brown Portfolio,’ which intended a future solution of
the Jewish problem “for all of Europe after the war.”
7. Numerical Data on Direct Transports
to the Eastern Territories
The existing railway documents 569 make it possible for us to draw only a
part of the entire picture of the transports of Jews directly into the eastern territories.
The transports arriving from the territory of the Reich were organized
by the German Reichsbahn (Reichsbahndirektion in Königsberg), whose duty
was to inform all departments involved. The transports received the abbreviation
‘Da’ 570 and were numbered consecutively. The empty trains, designated
by ‘Lp,’ were assigned numbers above 1,000.
The following transports are known: 571
567
GARF, 7445-2-145, pp. 72f.
568
“Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten Nr. 9”, Berlin, June 26, 1942, RGVA, 500-1-
755, p. 190.
569
Some documents concerning the transports to Minsk are found in the National Archive of
the Republic of White Russia (Natsionalni Archiv Republiki Belarus, NARB) under the inventory
number 378-1-784.
570
According to many authors this stands for David.
571
Raul Hilberg, op. cit. (note 269). Heiner Lichtenstein, Mit der Reichsbahn in den Tod, Bund-
Verlag, Düsseldorf 1985. Judenfrei! Svobodno ot Evreev! Istoria Minskogo Getto v dokumentach,
Minsk 1999, pp. 223f. Christian Gerlach, op. cit. (note 419), pp. 758f. Wolfgang