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November
18, 1941
...A
problem that occupies us in particular is the Jews.
This merry little people (Voelklein), which wallows in
dirt and filth, has been gathered together by us in ghettos
and [special] quarters and will probably not remain in the
Government-General for very long.
(Vigorous
applause)
We
will get these Jews marching and cause them as they have
already covered the distance from Jerusalem to Poland -
to move eastward a few thousand kilometers. But these Jews are
not that parasite gang alone, from our point of view, but
strangely enough - we only realized it over there
[in Poland] - there is another category of Jews,
something one would never have thought possible. There are
laboring Jews over there who work in transport, in building,
in factories, and others are skilled workers such as tailors,
shoemakers, etc. We have put together Jewish workshops with
the help of these skilled Jewish workers, in which goods will
be made which will greatly ease the position of German
production, in exchange for the supply of foodstuffs and
whatever else the Jews need urgently for their existence.
These Jews may well be left to work in this way; in the way in
which we are now using them it is something of an achievement
for the work-Jews themselves; but for the other Jews we must
provide suitable arrangements. It is always dangerous, after
all, to leave one's native land. Since the Jews moved away
from Jerusalem there has been nothing for them except an
existence as parasites: that has now come to an end. If one
looks at the Warsaw ghetto today in which 480,000 Jews well,
let us say, live, then one must realize that only the
determination of the National-Socialist revolution was capable
of successfully confronting even this problem. In 1919, at our
first meetings in Munich, we proclaimed the motto: An end must
be put to the rule of the Jews in Europe....
Work
Diary of Hans Frank, Yad Vashem Archives, JM/21. |
