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Secret
Notes
for the Responsible Officials
1.
Only full Jews will be deported. Mischlinge, partners
in mixed marriages and foreign Jews, as long as
they are not citizens of enemy nations or of areas occupied by
us, will be excluded from the Aktion. Stateless Jews
will, on principle, be detained. Every Jew is considered fit
to be moved; the only exceptions are Jews who are actually
bedridden.
2.
In order to assemble the Jews collection points have been
established in... The transport of those who are being held
will be by buses. Every bus will be accompanied by a Crime
Police official as transport leader. He will have with him,
according to need, regular police, Gendarmerie or Crime
Police. The transport leader is responsible for the assembly,
transport and supervision of his group until the departure of
the train from the collection point.
3.
Every transport leader will receive a list at the
concentration point, noting the bus which he has been
allocated, the police officials who will work with him, and
the names and addresses of the persons to be detained. Where
the names of the officials to work with him have not yet been
listed they will be inserted later by the transport leader.
4.
The transport leader will inform the officials working with
him of the names and addresses of the persons to be detained.
5.
When the officials appointed for this purpose have received
the personal information on the Jews, they will go to the
homes of those concerned. They will then convey to them that
they have been detained in order to be deported; it is to be
pointed out at the same time that they must be ready to move
in two hours. Possible queries are to be communicated to the
head of the collection point, who will clarify the issue; no
delay in the preparations is to be permitted.
6.
Those who have been detained should take with them, as far as
possible:
a)
A suitcase or parcel with clothing for each Jew; the weight
permitted is 50 kg. for each adult, 30 kg per child.
b)
A complete set of clothing.
c)
A woollen blanket for every Jew.
d)
Food for several days.
e)
Utensils for eating and drinking.
f)
Up to RM 100 in cash per person.
g)
Passports, identity cards or other identification papers.
These are not to be packed but to be carried by each
individual.
7.
...
8.
A questionnaire is to be filled in for every head of a
family or single Jew, in accordance with the sample
provided, and is to be signed by the official in charge.
9.
Attention should be paid to the following before the
apartment is vacated:
a)
Livestock and other live animals (dogs, cats, cage birds)
are to be handed over to the local head official, chairman
of the local farmers association or other suitable person
against a receipt.
b)
Perishable foodstuffs are to be placed at the disposal of
the NSV [Nazi welfare organization].
c)
Open fires are to be extinguished.
d)
Water and gas supply is to be turned off.
e)
Electrical fuses are to be disconnected.
f)
The keys to the apartment are to be tied together and
provided with a tie-on label with the name, city, street
and number of the house of the owner.
g)
As far as possible the persons detained are to be searched
before their departure for weapons, ammunition,
explosives, poison, foreign currency, jewelry, etc.
10.
After the apartment has been vacated the entrance to the
apartment is to be locked by the official and sealed with
the adhesive strip provided for this purpose. The keyhole
must be covered by the adhesive strip.
11.
After the persons detained have been taken to the bus the
official will hand over to the transport leader the objects
or valuables, questionnaires and keys, for delivery at the
concentration point.
12.
After the transport leader has handed over the detainees at
the concentration point he will check the list which he
received, amend it if required, and mark it as having been
dealt with.
13.
It is absolutely necessary that the Jews will be dealt with
in a proper manner when they are detained. Excesses are in
any case to be avoided absolutely.
P.
Sauer, ed., Dokumente ueber die Verfolgung der juedischen
Buerger in Baden-Wuerttemberg durch das
nationalsozialistische Regime 1933-1945 ("Documents
on the Persecution of the Jewish Citizens of
Baden-Wurttemberg by the National-Socialist Regime
1933-1945"), II, Stuttgart, 1966, pp. 236-237.
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