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254 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“The surplus Jewish masses can be expended and put to excellent use
particularly in the cultivation of the great Pripjet marshes and the marshes
on the northern Dnieper as well as on the Volga.”
As already mentioned, 739 in a letter to Gauleiter Arthur Greiser on September
18, 1941, Himmler wrote that, in accord with the wishes of the Führer, the
Jews were supposed to have been transported out of the Altreich and the Protectorate
“into the eastern territories newly incorporated into the Reich two
years ago,” but merely “as a first stage,” in expectation of a deportation “still
farther to the east.”
A secret telegram of November 9, 1941, sent by Lohse to Rosenberg, reads
with regard to Riga that the
“Jewish camps must be shifted considerably farther to the east.” 740
On the same day, Dr. Leibbrandt reiterated in a telegram to the Reichskommissar
for the Ostland, Heinrich Lohse, that “with regard to the transports
of Jews into the Ostland”: 740
“Jews are coming farther eastward. Camps in Riga and Minsk are only
temporary measures.”
There is no reason whatsoever to doubt that the evidence for a program of
renewed deportation of the Jews to the east corresponds to the truth. This is
incidentally confirmed by an article of October 16, 1942, in the Israelitisches
Wochenblatt für die Schweiz (Jewish Weekly for Switzerland). The paper reported:
741
“For some time there has been a trend toward dissolution of the ghettos
in Poland. That was the case with Lublin, then it was Warsaw’s turn. It is
not known how far the plan has being carried out already. The former
residents of the ghetto are going farther to the east into occupied Russian
territory; Jews from Germany were brought into the ghetto partly to take
their place. […] an eyewitness who was in Riga a short time ago and was
able to flee, reports that 32,000 Jews are still in the ghetto of Riga now.
Since the occupation, thousands of Jews have been killed. In the morning,
the Jews are said to have to line up outside the city for forced labor. They
are said to not receive salaries but only permissions for food supply. Compared
to the rest of the populace, they are said to receive only severely
short rations: they are said to receive only 100 g of bread daily and 2 kg of
potatoes per week. Recently, transports of Jews from Belgium and other
nations of western Europe were noted in Riga, which, however, immediately
traveled on again toward unknown destinations. In the ghetto of Riga,
so it is said, there were pogroms on the 30th of November and the 8th of
December, to which a great many Jews fell victim.”
739 See Chapter VI.
740 GARF, 7445-2-145, p. 52.
741 Israelitisches Wochenblatt für die Schweiz, no. 42, October 16, 1942, pp. 10f.