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Berlin [initials]
[stamped] : Personal Staff, Reichsfuehrer SS
File No. Secret/6^
Reich Security Main Office [RSHA] , Communication of Information Information Communication No. 219, DR BERLIN NUE NO 229793 16 December 42 2100—GR—
To Reichsfuehrer SS At present: FIELD COMMAND POST urgent—secret
In connection with the increase in the transfer of labor to the concentration camps, ordered to be completed by 30 Jan 1943, the following procedure may be applied in the Jewish Section.
1. Total number: 45,000 Jews
2. Start of transportation: 11 Jan 1943. End of transportation: 31 Jan 1943 (The Reich railroads are unable to provide special trains for the evacuation during the period from 15 Dec 1942 to 10 Jan 1943 because of the increased traffic of armed forces leave trains.)
3. Composition : The 45,000 Jews are to consist of 30,000 Jews from the district of Byalystock, 10,000 Jews from the ghetto Theresienstadt, 5,000 of whom are Jews fit for work who here-fore had been used for smaller jobs required for the ghetto, and 5,000 Jews who are generally incapable of working, also over 60 year old Jews. In order to use this opportunity for reducing the number of inmates now amounting to 48,000, which is too high in the interest of building up the ghetto, I am requesting special authority for this action. As herefore only such Jews would be taken for the evacuation who do not have any particular connections and who are not in possession of any high decorations. 3,000 Jews from the occupied Dutch territories, 2,000 Jews from Berlin—45,000. The 'figure of 45,000 includes the invalid [underlined] appendix (old Jews and children). By use of a practical standard, the screening of the arriving Jews in Auschwitz should yield at least 10,000 to 15,000 people fit for work [underlined].
For the chief of the security police & the SD IV B 4 KLEIN A —2093/42 KLEIN G (3910)
signed : Mueller ' Lt. Gen. [Gruppenfuehrer] of the SS.
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