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Eichmann gave the following suggestive description of
the manner in which orders were given by Himmler
(89):
"One must not believe, however, that
Himmler constantly and abundantly took care of Jewish affairs. But the subject
was by itself a burning one in Party circles. A brief phrase pronounced by
Himmler, an instruction given to his aide de camp (R. Brandt), to his personal
staff (K. Wolff), to C.d.S. (Heydrich) to a Höherer SS und
Polizeiführer during a visit to his command post or, in time of peace, to
his office, sufficed; and this brief instruction, this brief order then
unleashed, on the part of the authorities concerned, a flood of work,
discussions, requests for declarations of approval from authorities other than
the Sipo-SD, but which had to be heard or consulted so as to not feel
neglected. That is what gave, for example, the most work to the IV B4."
Let us try to indicate the succession of decisions which from 1940
to 1942 led to the "final solution of the Jewish question."
5. The
"Final Solution" by a Jewish Colonial Reserve (Summer 1940 -Spring 1941)
From the very first stage of the war – the invasion of Poland
– the Hitlerian regime had to decide the fate of the greater part of East
European Judaism. The meaning of this question was later (April 1944) summed up
by Six, who was at the time Chief of the Cultural Department at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. At a meeting of German diplomatic representatives abroad, a
meeting organized to brief them on the anti-Jewish action (PS-3319), he
explained that the
"physical elimination of Eastern Judaism
deprives Judaism of its biological reserves". On September 12,
1939, deliberations took place in Hitler's train, in Poland, among the chiefs
of the Wehrmacht. Ribbentrop (91) attended
them with the military men. The question of the extermination of diverse
categories of the population in Poland was brought up in the sense that Hitler
wanted. Lahousen, present at these conversations, testified before the
Nuremberg Tribunal that the general directive was to exterminate in Poland "the
intellectuals, the nobility, the clergy and, naturally, the Jews." This vague
glimpse of Hitler's conceptions at that moment was to be sufficient for Himmler
and Heydrich to isolate the most evident point which could be begun in its
totality, that is, the treatment of the Jews. Heydrich prepared a long term
plan of action which he communicated on September 22, 1939 (PS-3363), to the
chiefs of his mobile killing units in Polish territory. Let us recall that he
exposed to them a series of measures which were in the long range to end in the
accomplishment of a "final goal" which he declared to be secret. Given that the
plan for the creation of a Jewish reserve in the General Government ("Nisko")
was not kept secret, it was a question of something else, something to be
treated as unacknowledgeable. The project of a transfer of the Polish Jewish
population to another continent was not kept secret, either. In these
conditions, the secret of the "final goal" appears in rather a macabre
light.
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