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were present Sturmbannführer Laube,
Hauptsturmführer Brunner, and Röthke.
"The following plans
were worked out for round-ups: Paris is the hardest place to make arrests
because there are still 70,000 Jews there . . . . The Drancy camp for Jews can
easily accommodate all the Jews arrested . . . . Jews are to be interned
throughout France no later than June 24 and 25, and are to be deported to the
East no later than July 15, 1943."
June 16, 1943. Oberg meets
with Himmler. As a result, Hagen instructs the anti Jewish department to
deprive Jews of citizenship as quickly as possible, and deport them before July
15, 1943.
June 18, 1943. Knochen and Hagen meet with Menetrel,
Pétain's doctor and confidant. Hagen reports that Menetrel said: "You
will, of course, understand that in view of his age, the Marshal prefers a
humanitarian solution to a radical one. Hence, he does not want to deprive Jews
of their livelihood for fear they will starve." Hagen reports: "We explained to
Menetrel that experience has always shown that if Jews are permitted to work
they will soon drastically hamper economic life and worm themselves into
important positions."
August 7, 1943. Knochen and Hagen went
once more to Laval's headquarters to speed up anti-Jewish operations. Hagen
noted: "In the course of our August 7 meeting Laval told Knochen that he had
not signed the denaturalization law. He understood that Jews deprived of
citizenship thereby would be deported into Germany, and he had no wish to hunt
them down. Knochen protested, saying that since the start of the operation that
had been what was intended."
August 18, 1943. Hagen conferred
with Lieutenant Malfatti, the Italian liaison officer with the German High
Command in France: "I told him that the difference in attitude of the Germans
and the Italians was having a very bad effect on the solution of the Jewish
problem in France. I asked him to do his best to see that the German point of
view, with which the Italian government had agreed up until now, be strictly
enforced by the Italians."
August 23, 1943. Various memorandums
from Hagen about talks with de Brinon concerning the denaturalization of Jews.
August 28, 1943. De Brinon sends a memorandum to Hagen: "This
morning the Marshal himself took up the question of the denaturalization of
foreign-born Jews. He ordered the Ministre de
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