In 1944 there was no need to โhideโ anybody. In the โfogโ of war the numbers of displaced people was many, many unnamed millions. The idea that on the continent of Europe in 1944 and onwards only โJewsโ went missing is what is addle-headed, racist โnonsenseโ. 20 million people were registered missing in Germany alone. To use this idiotic logic, somehow the Allies had been โhiding millions of people with German ethnicity in 1944โ.
I agree with you, in a war where about 80 million died, millions of displaced people most people would not be concerned about Jews sequestered away in private labour camps for the most part cobbling shoes or making jam.
It was mentioned as evidence that Miss X, simply walked out with other girls from a Todt camp. Private participation in labour was extensive.
The Brรผnnlitz labor camp (Arbeitslager Brรผnnlitz) was a forced labor camp which was established in 1944 just outside the town of Brnฤnec Sudetengau. It operated solely as a site for an armaments factory run by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler. This camp was administered by the SS apparently being a sub camp of the Gross Rosen konzentrationslager.
Some of the problems were due to the activities of SS Polizeifรผhrer Odilo Globocnik who was assigned to develop a courier and intelligence service for the NSDAP, which channelled funds from the German Reich into Austria.
Globus was pardoned by the Reichsfรผhrer SS and given the rank SS-Brigadefรผhrer. He said:
"The evacuated Jews should feed themselves and be supported by their countrymen, as these Jews have enough [food]. If this does not succeed, one should let them starve."At Belzec Globocnik was exploitive forcing Jewish Council to pay for the workers keep while not paying any wages.
The Jews had to supply labor to the camps. However, this did not end their role. The Jews
were responsible for the organization, activities, and funding of the camp.The conditions were deplorable with physical deterioration stopping Jews from working. Jewish councils did not co operate with financing Belzec camp which exacerbated the serious problems of health and wellbeing. A meeting of the General government noted in its minutes:
While the SS did hire out their inmates most of the labour inmates were administered by the Reich Labour Service. Essential Jewish labour was in short supply. In order to increase the number of workers, on August 14 to 16, 1940 mass roundups were held in various towns of Lublin District, as well as in other districts. In this operation the SS rounded up Jews who had labour cards for other essential services. They also rounded up invalids; there was no coordination between Globocniks SS and the labour service. 10,000 Jews arrived at Belzec as a result of these failed round ups.
The influx of workers resulted in a number of new camps being set up for Jews in the Belzec area. The following camps were
established: Beลลผec-Dwรณr (Beลลผec-Manor), Beลลผec-Mลyn (Beลลผec-Mill), Beลลผec-Parowozownia (Beลลผec-Roundhouse), and the camps in Cieszanรณw, Lipsk, Pลazรณw, and Dzikรณw.
The influx was thousands of workers was not prepared for and caused a crisis due to lack of food and accommodation. This resulted in a complete collapse of the Belzec committee confounding matters. A new council was formed but eventually the SS were forced to take full control.
The complex in Belzec was run by the SS, but most of the administrative work was performed by Jews. There was a shortage of guards. There were 4 guards for 4 thousand workers over a 6 km distance. Three Jews who escaped into Soviet territory were promptly shot by the Soviet border patrol.
No doubt Globus was an exploitative criminal. Most of the indications of his mindset comes from the Historians Christopher Browning and Peter Longerich.
These two more or less state:
At the 13 October 1941 meeting with Himmler, Globocnik proposed exterminating the Jews in assembly-line fashion in a concentration camp, using gas chambers. (
The Origins of the Final Solution pdf, C. Browning)
He says:
No evidence is presented for this.
He goes on to say
Reference 191 191. imt, 29:104 (1918-ps: Himmler speech at Metz). September 9, 1940. Metz, France. Speech to the Officers of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
This is what Himmler said to the Officers of the SS had to say at Metz.
To be honest not many people reading Browning's work would look at the reference let alone look it up. Initially all I could find was:
The NARA links work but the Nuremberg ones did not. I fail to see any mention of Gรถring let alone "a new authorization for yet another kind of plan would indicate that something new and different was now expected". I found the Himmler speeches and looked up the Metz speech, his only one at the place.
I will start a thread on the Browning book which can be discussed in detail. The atrocities more or less start at the chapter titled
Inventing the Extermination Camp p367. I think there is much to discuss about this book. It is possible that reference 191 is an error and he is referring to another speech Himmler made.
(It is noticed that he is quoting another holocaustian Henry Egon Friedlander ( Friedlรคnder, The Years of Persecution, p. 287). No doubt Friedlander is quoting Browning.)
