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" ... Take all measures for the preparation
of an intensified Jewish emigration: among others, create an appropriate Jewish
organization to assure the uniform preparation of requests to emigrate..."
(58) We know with what care
the II-112 inspected and developed its contacts with Jewish institutions, work
which Eichmann prolonged in Austria by reanimating the activity of the Jewish
community in Vienna, which collaborated with the Zentralstelle to organize the
emigration in Germany, the institution of this nature was to be the
"Reichsvereinigung der deutschen Juden" of which the creation was decided (on
the basis of a decree of Goering) in July 1939. But the Reichsvereinigung was
to be obliged to participate in administrative work, not for the emigration but
for the deportation of the Jews. Alder, a knowledgeable historian of the
deportation of the German Jews, and who himself lived during this period in the
Reich, pronounced in his work on the deportation the following judgment:
"The connection between the SD and the
Reichsvereinigung... worked remarkably in anticipation, at the development of
the process of deportation without snags." (59) The same thing took place in most of the
occupied territories. The Gestapo owed to the SD this fruitful doctrine of the
utilization of Jewish organizations. But it was the Gestapo which applied the
method elaborated by the SD.
The internment of 30,000 Jews during the
"Crystal Night" (Heydrich stipulated in his order (PS-3051) that it was
necessary to arrest wealthy Jews in particular), was also an operation of the
Gestapo to incite this mass to hasten its emigration. These internees were
quickly liberated on condition that they prove their willingness to emigrate.
However, the SD collaborated in the action, as Hagen stated in his semestrial
report for July-December 1938. It nevertheless remains that the essential part
of the operation no longer belonged to the SD.
Hagen wrote in the
semestrial report for July to December 1938 (CDXXXVII-25) (the report dates
from March 1, 1939, thus after Goering's decree):
"At the time of the preparation of the
Reichszentralstelle für judische Auswanderung und der Reichsvereinigung
der Juden Deutschlands, the SD at first led the talks. The situation changed
only after the Reichszentrale for judische Auswanderung was subordinated to the
Security Police." (60) This
by itself indicates that the essential work of the II-112, that with the Jewish
organizations, had passed in 1939 into the hands of the II-B4 Of the Gestapo
(section directed by Lischka). A note of Hagen (CCXXXIV-18) of May 25, 1939, on
the reception of two regional chiefs of the SD to whom Hagen, aided by
Dannecker, explained the new situation, emphasized that because of "the giving
of the direction of the Reichszentrale für Judische Auswanderung to an
official of the Gestapo", the SD had not to take the initiative for the
creation of new Centers for emigration and that all questions of assistance to
the Jews Were to be settled with the consent of the offices of the Gestapo.
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