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cases – came from those home on leave
from diverse units engaged in the East and who had themselves had the occasion
to observe such measures. In order to be able to combat all formation of
rumours on this subject, rumours which often assume a tendentious nature, the
following commentaries are given for information on the present situation..."
After having recalled the anti-Jewish movement between 1933 and
1939 (1. "Exclusion of the Jews from diverse sectors of the life of the German
people... 2. The effort to totally expulse the adversary from the territories
of the Reich"), the ordinance brings out that on the one hand the war had
blocked emigration and on the other that the vital space, and thus the economic
space, of the German people contained at that time such a quantity of Jews that
their expulsion by emigration was no longer possible. Finally, the ordinance
declares, before formulating what was the current "final solution:"
"The problem as a whole must be resolved by
the present generation, given that even the following generation will no longer
feel the question so keenly and on the basis of personal experiences, and that
once launched, the affair urgently requires its resolution." By
this last detail the ordinance apparently means that the measures of
segregation applied to the Jews by the present generation would end up by
distracting the attention of the following generation from the actions of the
Jews in segregation. This would create a dangerous situation because taking
advantage of the careless somnolence of their Aryan entourage, the Jews would
finally succeed in infiltrating non-Jewish life again. In brief, the operation
begun had to be accelerated, having as objective the disappearance of this
human group; for otherwise the regeneration of the dissolving power of the Jew
would be fatally repeated.
The "final solution" is exposed as follows:
"That is why the total driving out
(Verdraengung), respectively the elimination of millions of Jews established in
the European economic space, is an imperative in the struggle that the German
people are leading to assure their existence. Beginning with the territories of
the Reich and then going on to other European countries implicated in the final
solution, the Jews are commonly transported to the East to large camps, in part
still to be built, where they are either set to work or brought still farther
east. Old Jews, as well as the Jews bearing important military decorations...
are commonly transplanted (umgesiedelt) in the city of Theresienstadt, in the
Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia. It is in the nature of things that these
problems, which are in part very different, can only be resolved in the
interest of the definitive security (Sicherung) of our people by an unmitigated
harshness." We know today in detail of what the "final solution"
consisted, and it is thus easy to interpret this text in its multiple shades of
meaning. Many things which it touched upon by getting around them were probably
to go unnoticed by an ordinary member of the Party who became aware of the
ordinance. But to that member of the Party who wanted to have an idea of the
solution that the Hitlerian power had finally found to one of the cardinal
problems of its ideology, the following traits should normally have been
evident: the "final
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