English Translation

97 The Ghetto with the walls The most radical manifestation of persecution of the Jewish population in the territory of the Protectorate, however, became mass deportation into the walls of the ghettos and then into the extermination concentration camps. With the physical destruction of the Jews, the Nazi leaders began to calculate seriously only after the attack on Poland and the outbreak of World War II. R.Heydrich was responsible for the final solution of the Jewish question (Endlösung), which called for its technical implementation a strictly classified conference in Wannsee, which took place on 20 January 1942. (258) In practical implementation of the final solution, Europe will be searched from west to east. The territory of the Empire, including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, must take precedence, perhaps only for reasons of housing and other sociopolitical needs. Evacuated Jews will be brought by train first to the so-called transit ghettos to be taken further east from here... The basis of this action, which is to solve the Jewish question, is in a sense to be Nuremberg's laws... , so Heydrich outlined his vision of the future of European Jews at the time of the campaign of Nazi troops in Moscow. (259) On 16 October 1941 the first transport of Jewish population from Prague to the ghetto in Lodz took place. Shortly thereafter, there were other transports to concentration camps, especially Terezín, where about one hundred and forty thousand people passed by the end of the war, including Jews from other European countries. On July 15, 1939, the Reich Protector in Prague set up a charter of 15 July (260) which originally served to measure all documents and formalities during eviction, later - renamed in August 1942 to the Central Office for the Management of the Jewish Question (Zentralamt für die Regelung der Judenferage) - to organise the transport of Jews to the ghettos and extermination camps and to dispose of their property.