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272 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
The ghettos of the General Government or the eastern territories are also
the usual destination of the Jews deported from the west by the German authorities
or by the authorities of other countries allied to Germany.”
Finally, Kulischer comes to the subject of the compulsory labor camps. He
notes in this regard: 814
“Up to the summer of 1941, at least 85 Jewish labour camps were
known to exist in the General Government. Of the 35 camps the position of
which was known, two-thirds were located on the eastern frontier.
Forced labour for Jews expanded rapidly, having developed from a
subsidiary measure into an essential feature of the treatment of Jews. […]
During 1942, forced labour became the common fate of the Jews in Poland
and German-occupied Soviet territory. The period for which Jews fit
to work are liable for forced labour is no longer limited. Their removal to
the east was largely motivated by the wish to make use of them as forced
labour, and as Germany’s need of manpower grew, deportation for adults
of working age was tantamount to assignment to forced labour. In contrast
with the other inhabitants of German-occupied countries, Jews are not sent
to work in the Reich, because Jewish immigration would run counter to the
policy of making Germany ‘free of Jews’. The needs of the war economy
are, of course, compelling the German authorities to deviate from this rule
to some extent, and indeed some exceptions have been reported. [815] But,
generally speaking, deportation to the east is for the Jews the equivalent of
the recruitment for work in the Reich to which the rest of the population of
German-controlled Europe is subject, and their removal further and further
eastward is doubtless connected with the need for supplying the
army’s requirements near the front.”
The author reckons the number of the “deported and expelled and … otherwise
displaced” Jews to be 3,150,000, but makes this more precise: 816
“This does not include: (a) the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews
deported eastward from the General Government, and (b) hundreds of
thousands of Jews transferred by compulsion within the limits of the same
country or territory to be segregated in ghettos and special Jewish towns, in
particular in the General Government and in the German-occupied Eastern
Territories. Assuming that only a third of the resident Jews who remained in
these territories were affected by (a) and (b), nearly 1,000,000 Jews must
have been compulsorily removed eastward or from one town to another.”
Nowhere does Kulischer speak of ‘extermination camps’ or of a German
policy of the physical extermination of the Jews!
814 Ibid., p. 110.
815 Kulischer gives as an example the deportation of 200 Jews from the Ukrainian Poltava to
Vienna. Ibid., p. 110, his note 1.
816 Ibid., p. 113.