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way were clear and pushed aside all that
recalled human misery. I followed in his tracks... Eichmann also took me into
the office of the community of the synagogue, in the Leopoldstrasse, where he
had previously spoken of me as reporting on racial questions to the Ministry of
the Interior. Upon my arrival there, I saw a certain number of Jews seated on
chairs on which they had obviously already been waiting for hours. When we
arrived, they immediately stood up; they were persons in charge of various
questions in the community of the synagogues of Vienna. In a curt manner,
Eichmann called them by their names, indicated to me just as briefly the
subjects of their reports, and they at once, like trained animals, delivered
what they had to say. On each face, one could read the expression of a mortal
fear which was well founded..." Neither the letters exchanged by
Hagen ("Dear Herbert") and Eichmann ("Dear Adolf") nor their relations as chief
and subordinate reveal the slightest disagreement concerning their way of
acting. One may suppose that Eichmann's comportment was virtually approved by
Hagen.
11. The Passage to the "Final Solution" in the Reich
(1938-1939)
The final solution had been launched in Austria as of
spring 1938. Goering, in charge of the Jewish question, declared at a meeting
of the Four Year Plan (PS-1301) on October 14, 1938, that it was time to
exclude Jews from the economy. He meant by the same occasion that the
incubation period of the Jewish question was over. The action precipitated in
Austria was like an anticipation of what was to be done everywhere in the
Reich. But Goering at this meeting severely criticized the manner in which
confiscations had been effected in Austria. The Gauleiter in charge of the
operation considered that it should profit Austrian members of the Party who
had suffered before the annexation to the Reich. Because of this, Aryanization
had taken place in scandalous disorder and with abuses. Goering underscored
that in the entire territory of the Reich, the dispossession of the Jews was to
be strictly the affair of the State and not of the Party.
In April and
in June 1938, the economic Aryanization in the Reich was already noticeable in
decrees ordering the Jews to register their businesses and their fortunes. But
on December 3, 1938, a decree proclaimed the Aryanization of possessions. This
decisive step in the launching of the solution to the Jewish question was taken
during the storm raised by the attack committed by the Polish Jew Grynzspan at
the German Embassy in Paris. He killed, apparently by chance, the German
diplomat Von [sic] Rath in a protest against the brutal expulsion of Polish
Jews from German territory. Goebbels seemingly encouraged by Hitler, incited
troops of the SA and the Party to proceed with progroms [sic] in the night of
November 9-10. This measure was severely disapproved by nearly all of the
ranking Nazi dignitaries. The burning down of synagogues and the wrecking of
stores were accompanied by looting.
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