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Chapter VIII: Indirect Transports of Jews to the Eastern Territories 249
“whether the children of the Jews being deported can be included in the
deportation starting with perhaps the 10th [721] transport.” 722
On July 21, 1942, Dannecker wrote in a note in reference to a telephone
discussion of the day before: 723
“The question of the deportation of children was discussed with SS-
Sturmbannführer Eichmann. He decided that, as soon as transportation
into the General Gouvernement is again possible, transports of children
can start rolling. SS-Obersturmführer Nowak promised to make about 6
transports possible to the General Gouvernement at the end of August/beginning
of September, which can contain Jews of every kind (also
Jews unfit for work and old Jews).”
These six transports could not have had Auschwitz as a destination, for
first of all Auschwitz was not located within the General Gouvernement but in
the territory of the Reich (from the German point of view at that time), and
second because during that period deportations to Auschwitz ran along a
mountain route. Therefore the sentence “as soon as transportation into the
General Gouvernement is again possible” cannot have referred to Auschwitz.
On August 13, 1942, SS-Sturmbannführer Günther sent a telegram to the
SS authorities in charge in Paris on the subject of “Transportation of Jews to
Auschwitz. Deportation there of the Jewish children,” in which he informed
them that the Jewish children could “gradually be deported to Auschwitz in
the planned transports.” 724 Transports purely of children, however, would not
be permissible. (This was clearly to prevent the enemy from exploiting this in
propaganda.)
On the day after this, in accordance with these orders, a transport with
1,000 persons departed from France for Auschwitz, “among them for the first
time children.” 725
In conformance with the instructions cited above, the first trains to Auschwitz
carried only Jews fit to work, who were then normally included in the
camp’s inmate registry. The following table summarizes the data relating to
the first 18 transports: 726
721
The 10th transport departed on July 24, 1942.
722
T-441.
723
RF-1233.
724
CJC, XXVb-126. A reproduction of the document can be found in E. Aynat, op. cit. (note
709), p. 87.
725
T-444.
726
The transports allegedly taken completely into the gas before July 4, 1942, are a pure invention.
Cf. C. Mattogno, “Sonderbehandlung” ad Auschwitz, op. cit. (note 2), pp. 42f.