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[Novem…] ber 8, 1941, however, the German
military command in France informed Berlin by a secret cable that". . .
although S.S.-Brigadeführer Thomas told us when he left that Dr. Knochen
would be transferred on November 14, 1941, and replaced by
S.S.-Obersturmbannführer Lischka, Dr. Lischka himself, on November 6,
1941, informed us that the transfer would not be made and that Dr. Knochen
would remain head of the department."
There are a number of documents
that recall Lischka's anti-Semitic activities and the Jewish catastrophe, among
which are the following:
February 16, 1942. To the military high
command
Subject: Deportation to the East of Bolshevik Jews for forced labor
I have objections involving the police security concerning the liberation
of Jews now in Compiègne. Jews designated as unfit for work cannot be
set free for just that reason, and they should be transferred to Drancy along
with the rest. My objections to the ordinance of the military command of
January 22, 1942, providing for the liberation of Jews over fifty-five years of
age, are based on the fact that these are for the most part retired Jews or
intellectuals who, having spent two months in prison in Compiègne, will
certainly generate anti-German propaganda. Besides, most of those Jews will go
into the non occupied zone immediately after their liberation.
February
26, 1942. A telegram to Eichmann in Berlin
SECRET
Subject: Transfer of
Jews and young communists to the East
In order to strengthen German
authority in the occupied zone, it is now urgent that the 1,000 Jews arrested
on December 12, 1941, be transferred as soon as possible. In addition to the
fact that the department concerned and the Paris Commander are being besieged
by numerous interventions in favor of liberating those Jews, it is certain that
the French interpret the delay in the transfer as a sign of weakness on the
part of the Germans.
For this reason, I ask you to adopt a special
proceeding in this particular case.
Please wire your decision.
Lischka so feared "German weakness" that he turned down, on
April 2, 1942, an unusual request from the German Embassy to set free a Jew,
Roger Gompel, a friend of a relative of a German diplomat. Lischka refused on
the principle that there could be no exceptions made or "the French will think
there are no German anti-Semites except the Führer himself."
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