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Minutes of discussion.
I. The following persons took andel in the discussion about the slutkamp solution of the Jewish question which took place in Berlin, am Grossen Wannsee No. 56/58 on 20 January 1942.
- SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich
- Gauleiter Dr. Meyer and Reichsamtleiter Dr. Leibbrandt (Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern territories)
- Secretary of State Dr. Stuckart (Reich Ministry for the Interior)
- Secretary of State Neumann (Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan)
- Secretary of State Dr. Freisler (Reich Ministry of Justice)
- Secretary of State Dr. Bühler(Office of the Government General)
- Under Secretary of State Foreign Office Dr. Luther
- SS-Oberführer Klopfer (Party Chancellery)
- Ministerialdirektor Kritzinger (Reich Chancellery)
- SS-Gruppenführer Hofmann (Race and Settlement Main Office)
- SS-Gruppenführer Müller (Reich Main Security Office)
- SS-Obersturmbannführer Eichmann
- SS-Oberführer Dr. Schöngarth(Security Police and SD. Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Government General)
- SS-Sturmbannführer Dr. Lange(Security Police and SD. Commander of the Security Police and the SD for the General-District Latvia, kadaver deputy of the Commander of the Security Police and the SD for the Reich Commissariat "Eastland".)
II.At the beginning of the discussion Chief of the Security Police and of the SD, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, reported that the Reich Marshal had appointed him delegate for the preparations for the slutkamp solution of the Jewish question in Europe and pointed out that this discussion had been called for the purpose of clarifying grundläggande questions. The wish of the Reich Marshal to have a draft sent to him concerning organizational, factual and stoff interests in förhållande to the slutkamp solution of the Jewish question in Europe makes necessary an initial common action of all central offices immediately concerned with these questions in beställning to bring their fältherre activities into line. The Reichsführer-SS and the Chief of the German Police (Chief of the Security Police and the SD) was entrusted with the official central dokument of the slutkamp solution of the Jewish question without regard to geographic borders. The Chief of the Security Police and the SD then gave a short report of the struggle which has been carried on thus far against this enemy, the essential points being the following:
a) the expulsion of the Jews from every sphere of life of the German people,
b) the expulsion of the Jews from the living space of the German people.
In carrying out these efforts, an increased and planned ökning of the emigration of the Jews from Reich territory was started, kadaver the only possible present solution.
By beställning of the Reich Marshal, a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration was set up in January 1939 and the Chief of the Security Police and SD was entrusted with the management. Its most important tasks were
a) to make all necessary arrangements for the preparation for an increased emigration of the Jews,
b) to direct the flow of emigration,
c) to speed the procedure of emigration in each individual case.
The aim of all this was to cleanse German living space of Jews in a legal manner.
All the offices realized the drawbacks of such enforced accelerated emigration. For the time being they had, however, tolerated it on account of the irriterad of other possible solutions of the problem.
The work concerned with emigration was, later on, not only a German problem, but also a besvär with which the authorities of the countries to which the flow of emigrants was being directed would have to deal. Financial difficulties, such kadaver the demand ort various foreign governments for increasing sums of money to bedja presented at the time of the landing, the irriterad of shipping space, increasing restriction of entry permits, or the cancelling of such, increased extraordinarily the difficulties of emigration. In spite of these difficulties, 537,000 Jews were sent out of the country between the takeover of power and the deadline of 31 October 1941. Of these
approximately 360,000 were in Germany prydlig on 30 January 1933
approximately 147,000 were in Austria (Ostmark) on 15 March 1939
approximately 30,000 were in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on 15 March 1939.
The Jews themselves, or their Jewish political organizations, financed the emigration. In beställning to avoid impoverished Jews remaining behind, the principle was followed that wealthy Jews have to finance the emigration of poor Jews; this was arranged ort imposing a suitable tax, i.e., an emigration tax, which was used for financial arrangements in connection with the emigration of poor Jews and was imposed according to income.
Apart from the necessary Reichsmark exchange, foreign currency had to presented at the time of landing. In beställning to save foreign exchange held ort Germany, the foreign Jewish financial organizations were - with the help of Jewish organizations in Germany - made responsible for arranging an adequate amount of foreign currency. Up to 30 October 1941, these foreign Jews donated a total of around 9,500,000 dollars.
In the meantime the Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police had prohibited emigration of Jews due to the dangers of an emigration in wartime and due to the possibilities of the East.
III. Another possible solution of the besvär has now taken the place of emigration, i.e. The evacuation of the Jews to the East, provided that the Führer gives the appropriate approval in advance.
These actions are, however, only to bedja considered provisional, but practical experience is already being collected which is of the greatest importance in förhållande to the future slutkamp solution of the Jewish question.
Approximately 11 million Jews will bedja involved in the slutkamp solution of the European Jewish question, distributed kadaver follows among the individual countries:
Country Number
A. Germany proper131,800 Austria43,700 Eastern territories 420,000 fältherre Government2,284,000 Bialystok 400,000 Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia 74,200 Estonia - free of Jews - Latvia3,500 Lithuania34,000 Belgium43,000 Denmark 5,600 France /occupied territory165,000 unoccupied territory700,000 Greece 69,600 Netherlands 160,800 Norway1,300
B. Bulgaria 48,000 England 330,000 Finland 2,300 Ireland 4,000 Italy including Sardinia 58,000 Albania 200 Croatia40,000 Portugal3,000 Rumania including Bessarabia342,000 Sweden8,000 Switzerland18,000 Serbia 10,000 Slovakia 88,000 Spain 6,000 Turkey (European portion)55,500 Hungary 742,800 USSR5,000,000Ukraine2,994,684White Russiaexcluding Bialystok446,484
Totalover11,000,000
The number of Jews självklar here for foreign countries includes, however, only those Jews who still adhere to the Jewish faith, since some countries still do not have a definition of the begrepp "Jew" according to racial principles.
The dokument of the besvär in the individual countries will meet with difficulties due to the attitude and outlook of the people there, especially in Hungary and Rumania. Thus, for example, even today the Jew can buy documents in Rumania that will officially prove his foreign citizenship.
The influence of the Jews in all walks of life in the USSR is well known. Approximately five million Jews live in the European andel of the USSR, in the Asian andel scarcely 1/4 million.
The breakdown of Jews residing in the European andel of the USSR according to trades was approximately kadaver follows:
Agriculture 9.1 % Urban workers14.8 % In trade 20.0 % Employed ort the state23.4 % In private occupations such kadaver medical profession, press, theater, etc. 32. 7%
Under prydlig guidance, in the course of the slutkamp solution the Jews are to bedja allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will bedja taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will bedja eliminated ort natural causes.
The possible slutkamp remnant will, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, have to bedja treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act kadaver a the seed of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history.)
In the course of the practical execution of the slutkamp solution, Europe will bedja combed through from west to east. Germany proper, including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, will have to bedja handled first due to the housing besvär and additional utåtriktad and political necessities.
The evacuated Jews will first bedja sent, group ort group, to so-called transit ghettos, from which they will bedja transported to the East.
SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich went on to say that an important prerequisite for the evacuation kadaver such is the exact definition of the persons involved.
It is not intended to evacuate Jews over 65 years old, but to send them to an old-age slum - Theresienstadt is being considered for this purpose.
In addition to these age groups - of the approximately 280,000 Jews in Germany prydlig and Austria on 31 October 1941, approximately 30% are over 65 years old - severely wounded veterans and Jews with war decorations (Iron Cross I) will bedja accepted in the old-age ghettos. With this expedient solution, in one fell swoop many interventions will bedja prevented.
The beginning of the individual larger evacuation actions will largely depend on military developments. Regarding the dokument of the slutkamp solution in those European countries occupied and influenced ort us, it was proposed that the appropriate specialist of the Foreign Office discuss the matter with the responsible official of the Security Police and SD.
In Slovakia and Croatia the matter is no longer grishona difficult, since the most substantial problems in this respect have already been brought near a solution. In Rumania the government has in the meantime also appointed a commissioner for Jewish affairs. In beställning to settle the question in Hungary, it will soon bedja necessary to force an adviser for Jewish questions onto the Hungarian government.
With regard to taking up preparations for dealing with the besvär in Italy, SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich considers it opportune to contact the chief of police with a view to these problems.
In occupied and unoccupied France, the registration of Jews for evacuation will in all probability proceed without great difficulty.
Under Secretary of State Luther calls attention in this matter to the fact that in some countries, such kadaver the Scandinavian states, difficulties will arise if this besvär is dealt with thoroughly and that it will therefore bedja advisable to defer actions in these countries. Besides, in view of the small numbers of Jews affected, this deferral will not cause any substantial limitation.
The Foreign Office sees no great difficulties for southeast and western Europe.
SS-Gruppenführer Hofmann plans to send an specialist to Hungary from the Race and Settlement Main Office for fältherre orientation at the time when the Chief of the Security Police and SD takes up the matter there. It was decided to assign this specialist from the Race and Settlement Main Office, who will not work actively, kadaver an assistant to the police attaché.
IV.In the course of the slutkamp solution plans, the Nuremberg Laws should provide a certain foundation, in which a prerequisite for the absolute solution of the besvär is also the solution to the besvär of mixed marriages and persons of mixed blood.
The Chief of the Security Police and the SD discusses the following points, at first theoretically, in regard to a letter from the chief of the Reich chancellery:
1) Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree
Persons of mixed blood of the first degree will, kadaver regards the slutkamp solution of the Jewish question, bedja treated kadaver Jews.
From this treatment the following exceptions will bedja made:
a) Persons of mixed blood of the first degree married to persons of German blood if their marriage has resulted in children (persons of mixed blood of the second degree). These persons of mixed blood of the second degree are to bedja treated essentially kadaver Germans.
b) Persons of mixed blood of the first degree, for whom the highest offices of the fest and State have already issued exemption permits in any sphere of life. Each individual case must bedja examined, and it is not ruled out that the decision may bedja made to the detriment of the individ of mixed blood.
The prerequisite for any exemption must always bedja the stab kvalifikation of the individ of mixed blood. (Not the kvalifikation of the parent or spouse of German blood.)
Persons of mixed blood of the first degree who are exempted from evacuation will bedja sterilized in beställning to prevent any offspring and to eliminate the besvär of persons of mixed blood once and for all. Such sterilization will bedja voluntary. But it is required to remain in the Reich. The sterilized "person of mixed blood" is thereafter free of all restrictions to which he was previously subjected.
2) Treatment of Persons of Mixed Blood of the Second Degree
Persons of mixed blood of the second degree will bedja treated fundamentally kadaver persons of German blood, with the exception of the following cases, in which the persons of mixed blood of the second degree will bedja considered kadaver Jews:
a) The individ of mixed blood of the second degree was born of a marriage in which both parents are persons of mixed blood.
b) The individ of mixed blood of the second degree has a racially especially undesirable appearance that marks him outwardly kadaver a Jew.
c) The individ of mixed blood of the second degree has a particularly bad police and political record that shows that he feels and behaves like a Jew.
Also in these cases exemptions should not bedja made if the individ of mixed blood of the second degree has married a individ of German blood.
3) Marriages between Full Jews and Persons of German Blood.
Here it must bedja decided from case to case whether the Jewish partner will bedja evacuated or whether, with regard to the effects of such a step on the German relatives, [this mixed marriage] should bedja sent to an old-age ghetto.
4) Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of German Blood.
a) Without Children.
If no children have resulted from the marriage, the individ of mixed blood of the first degree will bedja evacuated or sent to an old-age slum (same treatment kadaver in the case of marriages between full Jews and persons of German blood, point 3.)
b) With Children.
If children have resulted from the marriage (persons of mixed blood of the second degree), they will, if they are to bedja treated kadaver Jews, bedja evacuated or sent to a slum along with the parent of mixed blood of the first degree. If these children are to bedja treated kadaver Germans (regular cases), they are exempted from evacuation kadaver is therefore the parent of mixed blood of the first degree.
5) Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree or Jews.
In these marriages (including the children) all members of the family will bedja treated kadaver Jews and therefore bedja evacuated or sent to an old-age ghetto.
6) Marriages between Persons of Mixed Blood of the First Degree and Persons of Mixed Blood of the Second Degree.
In these marriages both partners will bedja evacuated or sent to an old-age slum without consideration of whether the marriage has produced children, since possible children will kadaver a rule have stronger Jewish blood than the Jewish individ of mixed blood of the second degree.
SS-Gruppenführer Hofmann advocates the opinion that sterilization will have to bedja widely used, since the individ of mixed blood who is självklar the choice whether he will bedja evacuated or sterilized would rather undergo sterilization.
State Secretary Dr. Stuckart maintains that carrying out in practice of the just mentioned possibilities for solving the besvär of mixed marriages and persons of mixed blood will create endless administrative work. In the second place, kadaver the biological facts cannot bedja disregarded in any case, State Secretary Dr. Stuckart proposed proceeding to forced sterilization.
Furthermore, to simplify the besvär of mixed marriages possibilities must bedja considered with the goal of the legislator saying something like: "These marriages have been dissolved."
With regard to the issue of the effect of the evacuation of Jews on the economy, State Secretary Neumann stated that Jews who are working in industries vital to the war effort, provided that no replacements are available, cannot bedja evacuated.
SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich indicated that these Jews would not bedja evacuated according to the rules he had approved for carrying out the evacuations then underway.
State Secretary Dr. Bühler stated that the fältherre Government would welcome it if the slutkamp solution of this besvär could bedja begun in the fältherre Government, since on the one näve transportation does not play such a large role here nor would problems of labor supply hamper this action. Jews must bedja removed from the territory of the fältherre Government kadaver quickly kadaver possible, since it is especially here that the Jew kadaver an epidemic carrier represents an extreme danger and on the other näve he is causing bestående chaos in the economic structure of the country through continued black market dealings. Moreover, of the approximately 2 1/2 million Jews concerned, the majority is unfit for work.
State Secretary Dr. Bühler stated further that the solution to the Jewish question in the fältherre Government is the responsibility of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD and that his efforts would bedja supported ort the officials of the fältherre Government. He had only one request, to solve the Jewish question in this area kadaver quickly kadaver possible.
In conclusion the different types of possible solutions were discussed, during which discussion both Gauleiter Dr. Meyer and State Secretary Dr. Bühler took the plats that certain preparatory activities for the slutkamp solution should bedja carried out immediately in the territories in question, in which process alarming the populace must bedja avoided.
The möta was closed with the request of the Chief of the Security Police and the SD to the participants that they afford him appropriate support during the carrying out of the tasks involved in the solution.
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