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1.
SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich stated that today's meeting
was called on the instructions of the Reichsfuehrer SS
for the purpose of achieving a uniform policy in the offices
involved in carrying out the tasks of resettlement ordered by
the Fuehrer. The evacuations carried out up to now have
consisted of approximately 87,000 Poles and Jews from the
Warthegau in order to make room for the Baltic Germans* who
are to be settled there. In addition there has been a
spontaneous, so-called illegal, emigration.
Following
statements by Reich Minister SS Gruppenfuehrer
Seyss-Inquart and SS Obergruppenfuehrer Kruger, SS Gruppenfuehrer
Heydrich noted that no objections in principle were raised
against the evacuation in the direction of the
Government-General by the competent authorities of the
Government-General. The objections raised up to now had only
been directed against the fact that in the earlier evacuations
the figures originally set had been exceeded, and not kept to.
The creation of Section IV D 4 for the central regulation of
all evacuation measures will eliminate the objections that
were raised.
It
is of prime importance to move out 40,000 Jews and Poles from
the Warthegau into the Government-General to free space for
Baltic Germans. The policy for the selection is the Order of
the Reichsfuehrer SS, according to which, among other
points, no persons of German origin are to be moved,
regardless of their record....
3.
After the two mass evacuations:
a)
of 40,000 Poles and Jews in the interests of the Baltic
Germans and
b)
of about 120,000 Poles in the interests of the Germans from
Volhynia, there is now to be a final mass movement to shift
all Jews from the new Ostgau** (Eastland) and 30,000
Gypsies from the area of the Reich into the
Government-General. As it has been decided that the removal of
120,000 Poles is to begin about March 1940, the evacuation of
Jews and Gypsies will have to be postponed until after the
completion of Aktionen referred to above. In any case
the Government-General is to supply information on the system
of distribution [of the evacuees] in order that planning can
begin.
SS
Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger stated that fairly
considerable training areas would have to be prepared in the
Government-General for the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and SS,
which would necessitate the relocation of about
100,000-120,000 persons within the Government-General itself.
It was therefore desirable to take this fact into account in
the evacuations in the direction of the Government-General in
order to avoid double resettlement. SS Gruppenfuehrer
Heydrich observed in this connection that the building of the
[defensive] ramparts and other plans in the East would
probably occasion the concentration of several 100,000 Jews in
forced-labor camps. Their families would be distributed among
Jewish families already living in the Government-General,
which would solve the problem referred to....
In
the middle of February 1940, he observed, 1,000 Jews from
Stettin, whose apartments were urgently needed for purposes of
the war economy, would also be evacuated to the
Government-General.
SS
Gruppenfuehrer Seyss-Inquart recapitulated the number
of persons that would have to be absorbed by the
Government-General in the immediate future, as follows:
40,000
Jews and Poles,
120,000
Poles and also all the Jews from the new Ostgau and
30,000 Gypsies from the Altreich*** and the Ostmark
[Austria].
He
referred to the transport difficulties which the German
Railways would have to solve and, finally, also to the poor
food situation in the Government-General, which would not
improve before the next harvest. This would make it necessary
for the Reich to continue its subventions. Reich Minister
Seyss-Inquart requested SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich to
support him on this issue if it should become necessary to
obtain further food subventions for the Government-General.
SS
Brigadefuehrer Waechter requested that the evacuees, who
came from areas where the food situation was considerably
better than in the Government-General, should be provided with
the appropriate foodstuffs.
SS
Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich noted in connection with the
transport difficulties referred to by Reich Minister
Seyss-Inquart, that this had already been taken into
consideration, as all transport was supervised centrally by
the Reich Ministry of Transport, so as to avoid the
inefficient use of rolling stock.
NO-5322.
*
Persons of German descent living in the Baltic countries, who
were to be concentrated within the area of the Reich in
accordance with the Nazi-German plan.
**
The reference is to formerly Polish areas, which had been
annexed to the German Reich.
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Germany before 1938. |
