TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

268 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
rope 801 and was published in 1943. In compiling his notes, the author made
use of the assistance of 24 institutions that he lists painstakingly. 802
Each of these institutions had at its disposal a dense network of channels of
information in the various European nations, so that Kulischer was able to
base his work upon the best existing sources. In his book, he devotes a highly
interesting section to the problem of the expulsion and evacuation of Jews by
the German government, which is written with scientific exactitude and is undergirded
by a copious documentation. For this reason, this book constitutes
probably the most reliable information about what Germany’s enemies knew
in 1943, despite all of the treacherous atrocity propaganda concerning the NS
Jewish policy. With rare precision, Kulischer explains above all the beginning
phases of this policy: 803
“Until the outbreak of war, emigration was ostensibly encouraged;
Chancellor Hitler said that he would willingly give a thousand mark note to
every Jew who would leave. In practice, however, less humane and more effective
methods of promoting Jewish emigration were adopted. Life in Germany
was made impossible for Jews in order to induce them to leave, and
when they left they had to abandon almost all their property. At the same
time, a moral obligation to receive the Jews was imposed on other nations.
With the extension of German conquests, the aims of Germany’s Jewish
policy were widened to embrace the ‘liberation of all Europe from the Jewish
yoke’. Not only the deportation and segregation of the Jews, but also
their extermination was an openly proclaimed objective of German policy.
[804] But the main factor which changed the character of the anti-Jewish
801
Eugene M. Kulischer, The Displacement of Population in Europe, International Labour Office,
Montreal 1943.
802
Ibid., p. 5: The American Friends Service, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the American National
Red Cross, Washington; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New
York; the American Jewish Committee Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems,
New York; the Belgian Information Center, New York; the Board of Economic Warfare,
Washington; the Central and Eastern European Planning Board, New York; the Czechoslovak
Information Service, New York; the United States Department of Commerce, Washington;
the Finnish Legation, Washington; the French Information Center, New York; the
French National Committee, Delegation to the United States, New York; the Greek Office of
Information, Washington; the Hias-Ica Emigration Association (Hicem), New York; the International
Red Cross, Washington; the Institute of Jewish Affairs, New York; the Latvian
Legation, Washington; the Lithuanian Consulate-General, New York; the Office of Population
Research, Princeton, New Jersey; the ORT Economic Research Committee, New York;
the Polish Information Center, New York; the Turkish Embassy, Washington; the Young
Men’s Christian Association, New York; the Royal Yugoslav Government Information Center,
New York.
803
Ibid., p. 95.
804
Directly after this, Kulischer speaks of “economic extermination,” which proves that he does
not mean physical liquidation but rather disempowerment when using the term “extermination”.