Goebbels diary, 2

Joseph Goebbels

"The Jews are now being deported eastward from the General Government. The procedure is pretty barbaric and one that beggars description, and there's not much left of the Jews. Broadly speaking one can probably say that 60 percent of them will have to be liquidated, while only 40 percent can be put to work."  

(Goebbles diary, March 27, 1942).

Comment: Concerning work/forced labor and liquidation compare with the Wannsee protocol from the conference which took place two months earlier (January 20, 1942). "Under proper guidance, in the course of the final solution the Jews are to be allocated for appropriate labor in the East. Able-bodied Jews, separated according to sex, will be taken in large work columns to these areas for work on roads, in the course of which action doubtless a large portion will be eliminated by natural causes. The possible final remnant will, since it will undoubtedly consist of the most resistant portion, have to be treated accordingly, because it is the product of natural selection and would, if released, act as a the seed of a new Jewish revival (see the experience of history.)"