I herewith order that the resettlement of the entire
Jewish population of the Government-General be carried out and completed by
December 31, 1942.
From December 31, 1942, no persons of Jewish origin may
remain within the Government-General, unless they are in collection camps
in Warsaw, Cracow, Czestochowa, Radom, and Lublin. All other work on which
Jewish labor is employed must be finished by that date, or, in the event
that this is not possible, it must be transferred to one of the collection
camps.
These measures are required with a view to the necessary
ethnic division of races and peoples for the New Order in Europe, and also
in the interests of the security and cleanliness of the German Reich and
its sphere of interest. Every breach of this regulation spells a danger to
quiet and order in the entire German sphere of interest, a point of
application for the resistance movement and a source of moral and physical
pestilence.
For all these reasons a total cleansing is necessary and
therefore to be carried out. Cases in which the date set can not be
observed will be reported to me in time, so that I can see to corrective
action at an early date. All requests by other offices for changes or
permits for exceptions to be made must be presented to me personally.
Heil Hilter!
H. Himmler
NO-5574.