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208 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
According to a note of the Reich chancellery dating from March or
April of 1942, Hitler had repeatedly informed Lammers, the head of the
chancellery, “that he wanted to postpone the solution of the Jewish
question until after the war.” 607 On 24 July 1942, according to Henry
Picker, Hitler underlined this intention by saying squarely that “he
would, after the end of the war, take the rigorous stand of squeezing one
city after another until the Jews came out, ready to emigrate to Madagascar
or to some other Jewish national state.” 608
The intention of the National Socialists to solve the Jewish problem
after the war results also from the so-called “Brown File” drafted by
Rosenberg on 20 June 1941 and later integrated into the “Green File” of
September of 1942. Its section “Directives for the treatment of the Jewish
question” begins as follows: 609
“All measures regarding to the Jewish question in the occupied
territories in the East must be taken from the point of view that the
Jewish question will be solved in a general way for the whole of Europe
after the war. They must, therefore, be conceived as preparatory
partial measures and must be in agreement with other decisions
in this domain. On the other hand, the experience gathered in connection
with the treatment of the Jewish question in the occupied
eastern territories may have a bearing on the solution of the problem
as a whole, as the Jews in these territories, together with those
of the General Government, constitute the largest contingent of European
Jewry. Any kind of purely vexatious actions, being unworthy
of a German, are to be abstained from.”
In a typed copy of these “Directives,” undated but surely stemming
from the same period, the text continues as follows after the word ‘domain’:
610
“This is applicable, in particular, to the creation of at least temporary
facilities for the settlement of Jews from the territory of the
Reich.”
A note by Martin Luther, an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
referring to Jews of Spanish nationality living in occupied France
607
PS-4025.
608
Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag,
Munich 1981, p. 456.
609
“Richtlinien für die Führung der Wirtschaft in den besetzten Ostgebieten” (Directives for
the Management of the Economy in the occupied eastern territories) (Green File), Berlin,
September 1942. EC-347. IMT, vol. XXXVI, p. 348.
610
PS-212. IMT, vol. XXV, p. 302