Document No. 1472-PS
International Military Tribunal · 1900AUTHOR — International Military Tribunal
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV
Document No. 1472-PS
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1472-PS
\[CABLE\]
Date 16 December 1942
URGENT-SECRET
TEXT:
In accordance with the increased recruitment of manpower into the concentration camps, which was ordered by 30 January 1943, the following may be applied in the Jewish sector.
1\. Total amount: 45,000 Jews.
2\. Start of transportation 11 January 1943.
3\. Completion of transportation 31 January 1943.
The Reichsbahn \[German State owned railway\] cannot make available special trains for the evacuation during the period 15 December 1942/10 January 1943 on account of the increased leave traffic of the Armed Forces.
4\. Breakdown: The 45,000 Jews consist of 30,000 Jews from the Bialystock district, 10,000 Jews from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Among those are 5,000 able-bodied Jews who, so far, have been utilized in the Ghetto for necessary minor jobs, and 5,000 Jews who are generally incapacitated; also Jews over sixty years of age, in order to reduce in the interest of the extension of the Ghetto the excessive number of inmates to slightly below 48,000. I request special permission for this. As heretofore, only the Jews who have no special connections and relations, and who have no important decorations, have been earmarked for deportation; 3,000 Jews from the occupied areas in the Netherlands, 2,000 Jews from Berlin which equals 45,000. In the total of 45,000 are included physically handicapped \[underlined\] and others (old Jews and children). In making a distribution for this purpose, at least 10,000 to 15,000 laborers \[underlined\], will be available when the Jews arriving at Auschwitz are assigned.
The Chief of the security police and the SD
Dept. IV, Div. B, Sec. 4, a-2093/42 g (391)
By Order of MUELLER
SS Gruppenfuehrer
Source:<br>Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV<br>Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality<br>Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946