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Field
Command, June 21, 1943
Reichsfuehrer
SS
Secret
To:
1.
The Higher SS and Police Leader (Hoherer SS- und
Polizeifuehrer)
Ostland
2.
Chief of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (Chef
des SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamtes)
1)
I order that all Jews still remaining in ghettos in the Ostland
area be collected in concentration camps.
2)
I prohibit the withdrawal of Jews from concentration camps for
[outside] work from August 1, 1943.
3)
A concentration camp is to be built near Riga to which will be
transferred the entire manufacture of clothing and equipment
now operated by the Wehrmacht outside. All private firms will
be eliminated. The workshops are to be solely concentration
camp workshops. The Chief of the SS Economic and
Administrative Main Office is requested to see to it that
there will be no shortfall in the production required by the
Wehrmacht as the result of this reorganization.
4)
Inmates of the Jewish ghettos who are not required are to be
evacuated to the East.
5)
As many male Jews as possible are to be taken to the
concentration camp in the oil-shale area for the mining of
oil-shale.
6)
The date set for the reorganization of the concentration camps
is August 1, 1943.
signed
H. Himmler
NO-2403. |
