Talk: Wannsee conference
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Could the following paragraph be clarifed:
- Dr. Josef Buhler pushed Heydrich to take off the final solution in the General Government. As far as he was concerned, the main problem of General Government was an overdeveloped black market that deorganises the work of the authorities. He saw a remedy in solving the Jewish question in the country as fast as possible. An additional point in favour was that there were no transportation problems here.
What does "take off the final solution in the General Government" mean? I'm not totally clear on "black market that deorganises the work of the authorities". Then, how does genocide solve the deoraganisation? Finally, why are there "no transporation problems"?
EmRick 00:15, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
General Government
If you check the link to the Wannsee Protocol translation, you will see this paragraph, which explains your questions:
"State Secretary Dr. Buehler stated that the General
Government would welcome it if the final solution of this problem
could be begun in the General Government, since on the one hand
transportation does not play such a large role here nor would
problems of labor supply hamper this action. Jews must be
removed from the territory of the General Government as quickly
as possible, since it is especially here that the Jew as an
epidemic carrier represents an extreme danger and on the other
hand he is causing permanent chaos in the economic structure of
the country through continued black market dealings. Moreover,
of the approximately 2 1/2 million Jews concerned, the majority
is unfit for work."
--Space_Balls 19:12, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'd express some concern about using the transcript of the Wannsee meeting as some sort of ultimate truth on this matter; it should be clearly stated that what we know from the transcript may be unreliable. Let us not forget that Eichmann almost certainly edited the minutes, and may have also passed them on to Heydrich for further editing. The truth is, we have pretty near no certainties here. I've also noticed some related articles which apparently seem to be using Conspiracy as some sort of historical document on the matter. Vincent-D 21:49, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
