Those affected received an order two days before notice.’Ĭourtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. The Gestapo was ordered to provide contingents of one thousand Jews each Monday and Thursday. At the end of June 1942, the deportation to Poland began on a large scale. Men between the ages of sixteen and fifty were sent to labor camps, while their wives and children were sent to special settlements in eastern Poland. A year later, at the end of October 1941, 48,000 Czech Jews were already wanted for deportation. ‘After the occupation of Poland, Hitler described Lublin and the surrounding area as the compulsory abode where all Jews from the occupied countries should be concentrated…. This excerpt, from a report from the Czechslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, describes occupied Czechoslovakia. Planning for War: The Hossbach Memorandum.
Steps towards war: the role of Hermann Göring.