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On July 19,
Himmler issued a deadline for the completion of the "Final
Solution" in the Generalgouvernement: "It is my order that
the evacuation of the entire Jewish population in the
Generalgouvernement area be carried out and completed by December
31, 1942. As of December 31, 1942, no persons of Jewish origin shall
be present in the Generalgouvernement. The means to be used are
those in accordance with the spirit of the new European arrangement,
as are vital to achieve the ethnic separation of races and nations,
and as are needed to assure the safety and purity of the German
Reich and the entire German sphere of influence. Any breach of this
arrangement endangers quiet and order throughout the German sphere
of influence, provides resistance movements with a focal point, and
creates a source for the spread of moral and physical scourge. For
all these reasons, a total purge is needed and therefore must be
carried out."
This order
consigned the Jews of the Generalgouvernement to death, and their
sentence was carried out efficiently in the months to come. |
