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applications for emigration for 1,200 persons. 78 Listed from one to five,
possibilities for immigration to the following countries existed: The USA,
Palestine, the South American countries, Australia and China. The two main
obstacles to mass Jewish emigration were the unwillingness of countries to accept
Jews who possessed no capital and the fact that emigration from Germany needed
to be executed according to a fully co-ordinated plan and not in the ‘irregular’ way
that was occurring, according to Heinemann. 79 The Gestapa in Magdeburg
deemed the report so important that it was sent on to the office of the
Reichsführer-SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei in Berlin, which in turn sent it on
to the Reichsführer-SS, Chef des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes on 24 January
1939. 80
In anticipation of mass Jewish emigration, the Gestapa in Magdeburg
requested that the police commissioner’s office report comprehensively on all
emigration, particularly that taking place after 31 January 1939. 81 The Gestapa
requested the details of all Jews, both Reich nationals and stateless Jews.
Submitted details included: date of emigration, surname, first name, place and
date of birth, profession, last domestic domicile, name of office that issued the
emigrant’s passport, passport number and the emigrant’s temporary and
permanent country of destination. The Gestapa further instructed that such lists
were to be made up bi-monthly and sent from the police commissioner’s office
78
Betr.: Bericht über die Auswanderung der Juden, 2. Januar 1939, Collection
0.51.OSSOBI, File 103, YVA, op. cit., p. 20.
79
Ibid., p. 23
80
Betrifft: Auswanderung der Juden, 24. Januar 1939, ibid., p. 18.
81
Betr.: Auswanderung der Juden, 3. Februar 1939, Bestand Oa, Signatur Nr. 46,
ASGM, op. cit., unnumbered page.