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the exact procedures to be followed with the forthcoming deportation of its
Jews. 201 Deportations had already commenced in other major centres. Jews who
were not employed in industries essential to the war effort were to be deported in
the forthcoming months to a city in the eastern region of the Reich. The
possessions and property of all deportees were to be confiscated by the Reich.
Deportees were permitted to take luggage of no more than fifty kilograms per
person in addition to RM 100. All deportations were administered and executed
by the local Gestapo, which also attended to the registration of all goods. 202 In
Magdeburg, one of those officers actively involved in the deportations, and later
imprisoned for his war crimes whilst in Magdeburg, was SS-Untersturmführer
Errlich. 203
Strict and comprehensive guidelines for the registration and valuation of the
confiscated possessions were administered. This included all household goods,
works of art, objects made of precious metals, stamp collections and stocks and
shares. Vacated apartments and rooms were returned to the city’s
administration. 204 In the ensuing months between November 1941 and April 1942
relevant bureaucracies in the city prepared themselves for their administrative
tasks ahead.
Final arrangements for the first deportation from Magdeburg were completed
on 23 March 1942. 205 465 Jews from the administrative district of Magdeburg,
including 153 Jews from the city itself, were to be deported to the
201
Betr.: Abschiebung von Juden, 4. November 1941, Bestand Rep. G 1, Signatur Nr.
390, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 8–11.
202
Ibid., p. 8.
203
Betr.: SS-Untersturmführer Errlich, 16. September – 20. Oktober 1949, Bestand
5B1, Signatur Nr. 66, CJA, pp. 67–72.
204
Betr.: Abschiebung von Juden, 4. November 1941, Bestand Rep. G 1, Signatur Nr.
390, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 8–11.
205
Betrifft: Evakuierung von Juden, 23. März 1942, ibid., p. 16.