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Reichsfuehrer
SS Field Command
Journal
No. AR 31/22/42 October 9, 1942
Secret!
With
reference to the memorandum from the Commander of the Military
District (Wehrkreisbefehlshaber) in the
Government-General to the OKW [High Command of the Wehrmacht]
concerning the replacement of Jewish labor by Poles, I have
the following comments:
1.
I have given orders that all so-called armament workers who
are actually employed solely in tailoring, furrier and
shoe-making workshops be collected in concentration camps on
the spot, i.e., in Warsaw and Lublin, under the direction of
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Kruger and SS Obergruppenfuehrer
Pohl. The Wehrmacht will send its orders to us, and we
guarantee the continuous delivery of the items of clothing
required. I have issued instructions, however, that ruthless
steps be taken against all those who consider they should
oppose this move in the alleged interest of armaments needs,
but who in reality only seek to support the Jews and their own
businesses.
2.
Jews in real war industries, i.e., armament workshops, vehicle
workshops, etc., are to be withdrawn step by step. As a first
stage they are to be concentrated in separate halls in the
factories. In a second stage in this procedure the work teams
in these separate halls will be combined, by means of
exchange, into closed enterprises wherever this is possible,
so that we will then have simply a few closed
concentration-camp industries in the Government-General.
3.
Our endeavor will then be to replace this Jewish labor force
with Poles and to consolidate most of these Jewish
concentration-camp enterprises into a small number of large
Jewish concentration-camp enterprises in the eastern part of
the Government-General, if possible. But there, too, in
accordance with the wish of the Fuehrer, the Jews are
some day to disappear.
signed
H. Himmler
Distribution:
1.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Pohl
2.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger
3.
SS Brigadefuehrer Globocnik
4.
Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt)
5.
SS Obergruppenfuehrer Wolff.
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