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Reichsfuehrer
SS Field Command
Journal
No. 38/33/43 g. February 16, 1943
Secret!
To:
Higher
SS and Police Leader (Hoeher SS- und Polizeifuehrer),
East SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger, Cracow
For
reasons of security I herewith order that the Warsaw ghetto be
pulled down after the concentration camp has been moved: all
parts of houses that can be used, and other materials of all
kinds, are first to be made use of.
The
razing of the ghetto and the relocation of the concentration
camp are necessary, as otherwise we would probably never
establish quiet in Warsaw, and the prevalence of crime cannot
be stamped out as long as the ghetto remains.
An
overall plan for the razing of the ghetto is to be submitted
to me. In any case we must achieve the disappearance from
sight of the living-space for 500,000 sub-humans (Untermenschen)
that has existed up to now, but could never be suitable for
Germans, and reduce the size of this city of millions Warsaw
which has always been a center of corruption and revolt.
signed
H. Himmler
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