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In
order to preserve uniformity in dealing with all Jewish
affairs, it is necessary to reach an understanding concerning
the basis on which our future work will be built up.
On
taking over the department of Jewish affairs in the Office of
the Governor General, I am therefore turning to the advisers
in this field and would like to outline briefly the attitude
that will be appropriate in confrontation with Jewry. This
will at the same time indicate the targets at which we must
aim (Basic Working Principles 1-9). These working
principles are roughly as follows:
1.
Spatial separation between Poles and Jews. In the decision
whether a person is a Jew or a non-Jew,* the sole essential
factors are his racial origins and blood and his acceptance of
Judaism (through marriage of a non-Jew with a Jew): not simply
membership in a religious community.
2.
A full Jew (Volljude) [here] unlike in the Nuremberg
Laws is a person who has two or more Jewish grandparents or is
married to a Jew and does not dissolve this connection.
3.
As a matter of principle Jews are to work for Jews; for
instance, only Jews are to be used for the building of
accommodations for Jews.
4.
The Jews are to establish their own social insurance system
and are not to pay contributions to non-Jewish insurance
schemes, nor make claims on non-Jewish facilities.
5.
The property and funds of such Jewish organizations will be
under the protection of the German Administration. The same
applies to Jewish welfare establishments.
6.
It should be considered whether, as a temporary measure, the
Polish Red Cross may be used by Jews if Jews had up to now
supported and helped this institution.
7.
All measures must be directed at the target that later the
whole of Jewry will be concentrated in a specific district and
in one area of Jewish settlement, as a self-supporting society
under the control of the Reich.
8.
Preparation of a plan for the resettlement of 400,000 Jews who
will enter the area of the Government-General after May 1,
1940.
9.
Creation of archives on Polish Jews and Jews in general
(newspaper reports, regulations, laws, culture, races, health
care, etc.).
In
addition you are requested to answer the following questions,
as far as possible, in accordance with the situation in your
district:
1.
In which districts and which sub-districts do the largest
number of Jews live at the present time, and what percentage
do they form of the general population in those areas (with
maps, if possible)?
2.
Which areas are the least valuable economically as regards the
nature of the soil? How large are they? Where are they
situated (map)?
3.
Which areas are least closely populated, how large are they,
how many people live there at the present time? Why are they
so sparsely populated? What nationalities live there
(numbers!)? To what extent would it be possible to resettle
the non-Jewish nationalities? Is the area suited for a purely
Jewish colony?
4.
What property is still in Jewish hands? Where is the Jewish
property and of what does it consist? What additional means
would have to be supplied for the settlement of the 400,000
Jews who will arrive here after May 1, 1940?
5.
What proposals can you make for the accommodation of the
deportees? What possibilities of work are there for the
deportees in the various districts (preferably in public
services)? What temporary arrangements camps, etc. are still
available at the present time?
6.
What has been done up to now in order to prevent as far as
possible the likelihood of infection or disease being passed
on to non-Jews? What is the position concerning health and
hygiene among the Jews in the area of the Government-General,
particularly where living conditions are cramped and close
contact between Jews and non-Jews cannot be avoided?
In
addition, I request a report on all plans for work and the
dispatch of a record of all measures taken up to now by your
office in any Jewish affairs.
(for)
Dr. Gottong
Head
of Department for Jewish Affairs
Eksterminacja,
pp. 48-51.
*
See Documents 32, 33, 34, 96. |
