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[imme…] -diately after the annexation, the
action was still limited to Austrian territory. The "solution" was not in
evidence in all of the Reich until November 1938.
The operation in
Austria was both carefully and feverishly prepared by the S.D.
(42) An immense and technically perfected
file was compiled to cover all persons whose activities classified them as
opponents of Nazism, obviously including the Jews. As of March 1938, the
Hitlerian power lashed out against the Austrian Jews. Expropriation was
immediately decreed and applied. The Jewish organizations as a whole were
forbidden, and personalities representative of Jewish community life were
arrested and interned. (43)
In the
semestrial report on the activity of the II-112 between January 1 and June 30,
1938 (CDXXXVII-23), Hagen summed up the political action in Austria which was
the essential part of the activity of the II-112 at the time:
"Results of the investigations: the
accomplishment of the entire operation against Jewish organizations in Austria,
with the participation of civil servants of the foreign section of the Gestapo:
reconstitution of Jewish organizations for the country of Austria; discovery of
internal processes concerning the foundation of a Jewish State; financing of
the Jewish emigration form Austria to the extent that it is admissible from the
point of view of the situation of the Reich regarding foreign currencies."
(44) As for the direction of
this action, the report states:
"The SS U'stuf Hagen was detached to Vienna
from March 3 to April 11, 1938, to participate in the actions in Austria. SS
U'stuf Eichmann was on March 16, 1938, designated for the same mission and was
later entrusted with the direction of the II-112 of the Office there."
(45) At his trial Eichmann
gave no account of the presence of Hagen in Vienna. He related that he arrived
alone in Vienna and that, having no contact apart from the address of the
Sipo-SD in that city, he undertook the reorganization of Jewish life,
subordinating it to the imperative of emigration. He told of the liberation of
Jewish personalities, the choice he made of an administrator of the Jewish
community and the intuition which led him to create a central office for Jewish
emigration (Zentralstelle für judische Auswanderung). He was quick to
unite in the same section representatives of all the government authorities on
whom the delivery of emigration permits depended. This centralization did in
fact remarkably accelerate the process of preparation for emigration. According
to the testimony of Wisliceny (LXXXVII-67), Heydrich engaged his authority for
the creation of this office.
We have noted, however, that Eichmann
spent the first three weeks in Vienna with Hagen, entrusted with the same
mission as the latter. In addition, the idea of a Zentralstelle may be derived
from Hagen's report of December 7, 1937 (CDXXXVII-21), on the reorganization of
the II-112 involving it in practical work and not just theoretical. It is in
short a question of the principle of subordination of everything concerning the
Jewish question to the SD and the Gestapo. The Zen […tralstelle]
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