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“Absolute Organizational Deficiency”: The 1. Nahplan of December 1939 (Logistics, Limitations, and Lessons)

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Phillip T. Rutherford
Phillip T. Rutherford
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In his collection of essays, The Path to Genocide (1992), Christopher Browning contends that when Hitler ordered his subordinates to pursue the wholesale destruction of European Jews in the mid-summer of 1941, what they were being asked to accomplish was at the time totally unprecedented. At this stage every step was uncharted, every policy an experiment, every action a trial run … Murder was in the air; many avenues were being explored, but little was settled other than at least Himmler and Heydrich now knew what they were looking for — a way to kill all the Jews of Europe.

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Central European History , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 235 - 273
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23. No provenance, “Besprechung beim Stadtkommissar am 1. November 1939 in der Frage der Balten-Ansiedlung,” 1 11 1939, Archiwun Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (AGK), Gestapo-Posen, CAMSW 687, 29, 122–23. The directive called for the eviction and internment of 7,000 Poles by December 5.

24. On this problem, see Wilhelm Koppe, the HSSPF of Wartheland, to Kommando der Schupo, November 1939 (no specific date), AGK, Greiser Trial, 36, 536, ordering greater care in arrests.

25. Report on camp conditions (signature illegible), 8 November 1939, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), RG15.015M, 3, 188, 3–6. Archiwum Państwowe Lodz (APL) holds a handwritten record listing the number of individuals entering Glowno daily between 1 November 1939 and May 1940. While some discrepancies are evident between this record and other reports, it nevertheless provides an overview of the scale of evacuations from the Posen region during the first seven months of the operation, particularly in terms of evictions carried out before and during the 1. Nahplan. See “Tägliche Eingänge von evakuierten Personen aus verschiedenen Kreisen, 1939–1940,” APL, UWZ-L, 11a, 1–205.

26. “Niederschrift über die am 8.11.39 stattgefundene Besprechung beim Generalgouverneur Polen in Krakau,” Biuletyn XII, doc. 3, 11F–14FGoogle Scholar.

27. Greiser, “Rundschreiben an alle Parteidienststellen, Staatsdienststellen, Landräte, usw,” 4 12 December 1939, AGK, Greiser Trial, 13, 176.

28. HSSPF-Posen, “Abschiebung von Juden und Polen aus dem Reichsgau Warthe-Land,” 10 11 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 95, 8–14.

29. Ibid., “Ansiedlung von Baltendeutschen und Wolhyniendeutschen und Evakuierung von Juden und Polen,” 11 November 1939, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 321.

30. As an incentive to immigrate and to ensure that they were quickly integrated into the economy of the new Reich territories, ethnic German settlers were supposed to receive employment comparable to that which they had abandoned in their countries of origin. In the case of the 61,000 Baltic Germans, only 6,726 of those 24,096 of working age who received employment by 31 March 1940 were placed in the agricultural sector. The majority were employed as craftsmen, industrial workers, salesmen, doctors, bureaucrats, healthcare workers, and in other urban-based occupations. See Reichsführer-SS, Der, Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, Der Menscheneinsatz: Grundsätze, Anordnung und Richtlinien (n.p., 1940)Google Scholar, NARA, T81, 307, Vomi 802, 2435422ff.

31. There are no reliable data for the number of Jews in Posen, Gnesen, and Hohensalza in 11 1939.

32. HSSPF-Posen, “Geheim! Abschiebung von Juden und Polen aus dem Reichsgau ‘WartheLand,’” 12 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 99, 1–5.

33. Rapp, “Abschiebung von Polen und Juden aus dem Reichsgau ‘Wartheland,’” 16 November 1939, AGK, Umwandererzentralstelle-Litzmannstadt (UWZ-L), 5, 15–19.

34. Rapp (draft), “Überprüfung der Beamten, Angestellten und Arbeiter polnischer Volkszugehörigkeit in Zusammenhang mit den geplanten Evakuierungsmassnahmen,” 16 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 99, 6–7.

35. Rapp, “Rückstellungsanträge und Fürsprache für evakuierte Juden und Polen,” 3 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 101, 4. Emphasis Rapp's.

36. Oberlandesgerichtpräsident (gez. Froböß), “Evakuierung von ehemals polnischen Justizbediensteten, die zur vorübergehenden Dienststellung eingestellt,” 6 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M.4, 271, 1–2.

37. For a large file of deferment, exemption requests by Jarotschin officials, see APP, Landkreis Jarotschin, 22. For the school commissioner's petition, see “Evakuierung polnischer Lehrkräfte,” 19 December 1939, APP, Landkreis Jarotschin, 22, 4–25.

38. See, respectively, Staatsarchiv to the Polizeipräsident-Posen, 7 November 1939, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 297, 36–39; Apothekerkammer Wartheland to Umsiedlungsamt-Posen, 3 March 1940, APP, SS-Ansiedlungsstab-Posen, 101, 8; Der Reichsstatthalter, “Vermeidung der Evakuierung polnischer Diestkräfte,” 14 October 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 4, 269, 5–6; Dr Spreng, “Zurückstellung des in wichtigen Betrieben unentbehrlichen Personals von der Evakuierung,” 8 January 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 4, 268, 6.

39. Rapp, “Zurückstellung von Angestellten und Arbeitern der Reichsbahndirektion Posen,” 1 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 4, 268, 1–2.

40. Der Präsident der Reichsbahndirektion Posen, “Abschieben von polnischen Eisenbahnern,” 30 December 1939, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 293, 18–19v; Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews (Chicago, 1967), 134Google Scholar (no statistics provided for Wartheland itself).

41. Rapp, “Abschiebung von Juden und Polen. Mündliche Anordnung des Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer, SS-Gruppenführer Koppe vom 10.11.39,” USHMM, RG15.015M, 1, 95, 4–7; HSSPF-Posen (signed Rapp), “Abschiebung von Juden aus dem Reichsgau ‘Wartheland,’” 24 November 1939, AGK, UWZ-L, 5, 45–46.

42. Rapp, “Durchführung der Evakuierung,” 18 November 1939, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 321, 2409565ff.; HSSPF-Posen, “Merkblatt für die Durchführung der Evakuierung von Juden und Polen,” 22 November 1939, APR Landrat-Jarotschin, 20, 2.

43. Koppe, “Inventuraufnahme in Wohnungen polnischer oder jüdischer Flüchtlinge oder Ausgewiesener,” 24 November 1939, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 321, 2409562ff.; Rapp, “Richtlinien über die Durchführung der Polen- und Judenevakuierung und deren Abtransport an die endgültigen Bestimmungsorte,” 22 November 1939, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 321, 2409558ff.

44. Rapp, “Durchsuchung der Lagerinsassen vor Abgang des Transports zum endgültigen Bestimmungsort,” 22 November 1939, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 321, 2409561ff.; Rapp. “Transportanweisung für das Begleitkommando der Evakuierungszüge,” 22 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 188, 23–24, as well as the supplemental order of the same date. USHMM. RG15.015M, 3, 188, 21.

45. No provenance, no date, APP, Landrat-Schrimm, 100, 31; Rapp, “Transportanweisung …,” 22 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 188, 23–24.

46. Krumey, “Bericht zu der Aufstellung der Abtransporte,” 22 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 104, 13.

47. Heydrich (telegram), “Raeumung in den neuen Ostprovinzen,” 28 November 1939, Biuletyn XII, doc. 4, 15F–17F; Heydrich (telegram), “Raeumung im Warthegau.” 28 November 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 99, 2.

48. Deutsches Auslands-Institut, “Umsiedlung der Polen aus dem neuen Reichsgebiet. Auszug aus dem Bericht von Dr. Könekamp. Polenfahrt vom 29.11 bis 9. 12.29,” December 1939 (no specific date), NARA, T81, 273, Vomi 140, 2393478ff.

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50. See the extract from the “Erlass des Chefs des Distrikts Radom im Generalgouvernement für die besetzen polnischen Gebiete,” 4 December 1939, Verfolgung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung: Dokumente des faschistischen Antisemitismus, 1933 bis 1942, ed. Pätzold, Kurt (Frankfurt am Main, 1984), doc. 219, pp. 251–52Google Scholar.

51. See the handwritten camp records, “Tägliche Eingänge von evakuierten Personen aus verschiedenen Kreisen, 1939–1940,” APL, UWZ-L, 11a, 1–205. The total number of arrivals at Glowno by 30 November was 2,767, but some were no doubt released due to mistaken arrests. An additional 10,496 Poles, primarily from Posen, arrived between 1–17 December 1939. Of eleven evacuation trains at the disposal of Warthegau authorities on 1 December 1939. three left Glowno that same day, all of them bound for Lublin. See “Fahrplanordnung,”. 1–2 December 1939. USHMM. RG15.015M, 3, 197, 1.

52. Zugwachtmeister und Transportführer Howein, “Bericht über den Verlauf des Evakuierten-Tramportes I,” 7 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 202, 2–3.

53. Zugwachtmeister und Transportführer Nehrkorn, “Bericht über den Evakuiertentransport am 1.12.39, 1:30 Uhr, von Glowno nach Ostrowiec,” 7 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 202, 3; Hauptwachtmeister und Transportführer Dünzl, “Fahrtverlauf des Abtransportes der aus dem Kreis Dietfurt evakuierten Polen nach Minsk-Mazow,” 10 December 1939, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 293, 13–16.

54. Rapp, “Evakuierung der Polen und Juden — Transportmeldewesen,” 4 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 197, 2–3; Rapp, “Verantwortung der Transportführer für ihren Transportzug,” 7 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 1, 96, 3–5; Rapp to all Landräte and Oberbürgermeister, “Begleitkommandos der Evakuierungstransporte,” 7 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 197, 4–5.

55. Strickner to Rapp, “Schwierigkeiten bei der Evakuierung,” 8 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 195, 3; Rapp, “Abtransport der Evakuierten,” 8 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M.3, 188, 35.

56. Richter, “Bericht über die in Lodsch von 12. Dezember bis zum 16. Dezember durchgeführte Evakuierung von Polen und Juden,” 16 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3. 218, 27–35.

57. Ordensjunker Walther, “Auszugweise den Tätigkeitsbericht des Vorkommandos in Gnesen vom 18. 12.1939,” USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 212, 2.

58. Rapp, “Erfahrungsbericht über die Umsiedlung von Polen und Juden aus dem Reichsgau ‘Wartheland’” 26 January 1940, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 322, 2409574ff.

59. Der Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau to the Reich Ministry of the Interior (signed Coulon), “Evakuierungsmassnahmen im Reichsgau Wartheland,” (draft) circa 9 February 1940, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Wartheland, 297, 83–90.

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61. See n. 48.

62. Rapp's two comprehensive reports on the 1. Nahplan: “Abschiebung von Juden und Polen aus dem Warthegau. Erfahrungen aus dem bisherigen Ablauf der Aktion und Planung für die zukünftigen Transporte,” 18 December 1939, Biuletyn XII, doc. 8, 22F–31F; “Erfahrungsbericht” (see n. 73). Unless otherwise noted, the following discussion refers exclusively to these two documents.

63. HSSPF Koppe, “Herreichung eines Erfahrungsberichtes und der in den bisherigen Anordnungen des Höheren SS- und Polizeiführers Warthe geforderten Gesamtaufstellungen und Unterlagen,” 6 01 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 1, 96, 6–7.

64. Petzel (General der Artillerie), “Wehrmacht und Polizei,” 3 sc 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 166, 1. Rapp's observations raise interesting questions about generational attitudes toward racial policy that deserve further exploration and analysis.

65. See, for example, the report by the Gendarmerieabteilung Dobra in Kreis Turek, “Evakuierungstransport nach Bochnia [12.12.39],” 10 January 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 202, 8–9, in which the police describe how Polish railway workers had refused to provide coal and water for an evacuation train. In early 1940, the Ostbahn employed 9,298 Germans and 36,640 Poles; by late 1943, the rail system had 145,000 Poles (as well as a few thousand Ukrainians) on the payroll, but still only 9,000 Germans. See Hilberg, 134. Much to the consternation of Rapp, the Ostbahn and the Wehrmacht, sometimes requisitioned evacuation trains for their own purposes.

66. See the extract of the 29 December 1939 report to Hans Frank “Über das Schicksal der Vertriebenen nach ihrer Ankunft im ‘Generalgouvernement,’” Pätzold, doc. 222, 254.

67. Polish Ministry of Information, The Black Book of Poland (New York, 1942), 195Google Scholar.

68. Broszat, , Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik, 43Google Scholar.

69. See the “Vermerk,” on the 4 January 1940 meeting in Berlin concerning future deportations from the incorporated territories (Eichmann presiding), Biuletyn XII, doc. 12, 37F–39F.

70. Himmler, Heinrich, Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 und andere Ansprachen, ed. Smith, Bradley K. and Peterson, Agnes F. (Frankfurt am Main, 1974)Google Scholar, “Rede vor Gauleitern und Parteifunktionären am 29.2.40,” p. 137. For other reports concerning transport deaths, see The Black Book of Poland, 170 ff.

71. Gestapo-Posen (gez. Bischoff), “Behandlung von Juden, die sich entgegen dem Umsiedlungsbefehl auf dem Gebiet des Deutschen Reiches befinden,” 13 December 1939, APP, Landrat-Schrimm, 100, 35, transmitted verbally to the Jewish Council of Elders in each community in the Warthegau. It was aimed at the Polish population as well.

72. Der Polizeipräsident-Posen to the RFSS, “Erteilung von Wiedereinreisegenehmigung an evakuierte Polen durch militärische Dienststellen,” 2 January 1940, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 299, 40; Landrat Konin, “Evakuierung,” 6 January 1940, AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 299, 24; Der Reichsstatthalter, “Vermerk: Umsiedlung von Polen und Juden,” 9 February 1940. AGK, Reichsstatthalter-Warthegau, 297, 81–82. Though execution supposedly awaited evacuees upon their return, I have found no evidence to suggest that many were actually carried out. In fact, some who returned to Kreis Gostingen in January were allowed to stay temporarily; others were simply sent back east. See Commander of the Gendarmerie-Posen, “Bericht von 16 Januar 1940,” 16 January 1940, USHMM, RG15.015M, 3, 170, 1.

73. Rapp, “Abschiebung von Polen und Juden aus dem Reichsgau ‘Wartheland,’” 4 January 1940, AGK, Greiser Trial, 13, 32–33.

74. Rapp, reports of 26 January 1940, NARA, T81, 286, Vomi 322, 2409574ff. and 18 December 1939, Biuletyn XII, doc. 8, 25F, 26F, 31 F.

75. HSSPF-Posen, see n. 29 and 33.

76. The discrepancy of 10,000 is unexplained. Rapp stated that the missing reports were, for the most part, those from small or judenfrei districts.

77. Rapp, report of 18 December 1939, Biuletyn XII, doc. 8, 31F.

78. Chef der Sipo und des SD (gez. Heydrich), “Räumung in den Ostprovinzen,” 21 December 1939, Biuletyn XII. doc. 9., 32F.

79. Aly, , “Final Solution,” 64–66Google Scholar. Eichmann's bureau was initially called “Amt IVR” (“Evacuation”), but redesignated “Amt IVD4” (“Emigration and Evacuation”) in early February 1940. The bureau of Hans Ehlich, chief of RSHA Amt IIIES (“Immigration and Settlement”), was renamed “Amt IIIB” (“Volkstum”) on 21 March 1940.

80. Chef der Sipo und des SD, “2. Nahplan,” 21 December 1939, USHMM, RG15.015M, 2, 99, 10–16.

81. Ibid.

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