So, considerable effort has been made to determine where the Jews went. But, to my knowledge, we don't have access to that information. Has the ITS issued a report on 'where the Jews went'?. If not, it seems to me the answer to the question is probably unknowable.As early as 1943, prominent archivists called for plans to administer and capture German war records. Ernst Posner, a distinguished German-Jewish archivist ...
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In July 1945, UNRRA became the agency solely responsible for organizing and indexing all Nazi documents that had been gathered by Allied forces.
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In 1947, the International Refugee Organization (IRO) replaced the UNRRA as the main supervisory organ that oversaw the management of this growing archive. On January 1, 1948, the IRO renamed the Central Tracing Bureau as the International Tracing System (ITS)
1) Jews went to where Jews areJoe Splink wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 2:53 pm If you look at the origins of the ITS, https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/a ... ng-service, you'll see that:
So, considerable effort has been made to determine where the Jews went. But, to my knowledge, we don't have access to that information. Has the ITS issued a report on 'where the Jews went'?. If not, it seems to me the answer to the question is probably unknowable.As early as 1943, prominent archivists called for plans to administer and capture German war records. Ernst Posner, a distinguished German-Jewish archivist ...
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In July 1945, UNRRA became the agency solely responsible for organizing and indexing all Nazi documents that had been gathered by Allied forces.
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In 1947, the International Refugee Organization (IRO) replaced the UNRRA as the main supervisory organ that oversaw the management of this growing archive. On January 1, 1948, the IRO renamed the Central Tracing Bureau as the International Tracing System (ITS)
The "where did they go" is a trick question... Essentially insisting that there are six million Jews missing and that the best explanation was that they were gassed or exterminated by other means... It totally ignores that people may simply not register as Jews (again) and that there were migration movements in the period 1930 to 1950.HansHill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:19 pm...
1) Jews went to where Jews are
2) Its pracitcally impossible to geolocate each and every one of them, given these were the exact people who i) were hiding under floorboards and in lofts, ii) have a documented history of evading the attention of centralised authorities, iii) resisting integration and iv) changing their names in order to help achieve all of the above
3) If any of this sounds implausible, consider in the present day, USA and Europe with all of their modern surveillance tech and operational means, have absolutely no idea how many undocumented migrants are living in their respective contintents:
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Germans speak of the number of Jews under their control in multiple documents and it is fairly well known by the outside world that large numbers of Jews came under German control. Asking what happened to those Jews is certainly NOT a "trick question".Hektor wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:16 pmThe "where did they go" is a trick question... Essentially insisting that there are six million Jews missing and that the best explanation was that they were gassed or exterminated by other means... It totally ignores that people may simply not register as Jews (again) and that there were migration movements in the period 1930 to 1950.HansHill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:19 pm...
1) Jews went to where Jews are
2) Its pracitcally impossible to geolocate each and every one of them, given these were the exact people who i) were hiding under floorboards and in lofts, ii) have a documented history of evading the attention of centralised authorities, iii) resisting integration and iv) changing their names in order to help achieve all of the above
3) If any of this sounds implausible, consider in the present day, USA and Europe with all of their modern surveillance tech and operational means, have absolutely no idea how many undocumented migrants are living in their respective contintents:
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This only makes sense if you think that it was the Germans' obligation to register where each Jew was under their rule, they were not obliged to do so and yet they determined that millions crossed the Reich's area of influence into the occupied eastern territories in the Korherr Report, which was part of the German foreign policy on the Jewish question. And at the same time, they had to evacuate the Jews from where they left them in accordance with the retreat of the Eastern Front.blake121666 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:47 pmGermans speak of the number of Jews under their control in multiple documents and it is fairly well known by the outside world that large numbers of Jews came under German control. Asking what happened to those Jews is certainly NOT a "trick question".Hektor wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:16 pmThe "where did they go" is a trick question... Essentially insisting that there are six million Jews missing and that the best explanation was that they were gassed or exterminated by other means... It totally ignores that people may simply not register as Jews (again) and that there were migration movements in the period 1930 to 1950.HansHill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:19 pm...
1) Jews went to where Jews are
2) Its pracitcally impossible to geolocate each and every one of them, given these were the exact people who i) were hiding under floorboards and in lofts, ii) have a documented history of evading the attention of centralised authorities, iii) resisting integration and iv) changing their names in order to help achieve all of the above
3) If any of this sounds implausible, consider in the present day, USA and Europe with all of their modern surveillance tech and operational means, have absolutely no idea how many undocumented migrants are living in their respective contintents:
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"they determined that millions crossed the Reich's area of influence into the occupied eastern territories"??????TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:48 pmThis only makes sense if you think that it was the Germans' obligation to register where each Jew was under their rule, they were not obliged to do so and yet they determined that millions crossed the Reich's area of influence into the occupied eastern territories in the Korherr Report, which was part of the German foreign policy on the Jewish question. And at the same time, they had to evacuate the Jews from where they left them in accordance with the retreat of the Eastern Front.blake121666 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:47 pmGermans speak of the number of Jews under their control in multiple documents and it is fairly well known by the outside world that large numbers of Jews came under German control. Asking what happened to those Jews is certainly NOT a "trick question".Hektor wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:16 pm
The "where did they go" is a trick question... Essentially insisting that there are six million Jews missing and that the best explanation was that they were gassed or exterminated by other means... It totally ignores that people may simply not register as Jews (again) and that there were migration movements in the period 1930 to 1950.
So you are asking the wrong question, it was up to the Soviet authorities to determine how many Jews remained in their territory, was this done? When? How accurate was this data? Were Jews afraid to declare themselves as such in censuses behind the Iron Curtain?
Bro, do you know like anything about this topic? The Reichskommissiaräte had civilian governments. They were also classically what would be called occupied countries. If there happens to be a day when Israel isn’t rolling tanks into the West Bank, the West Bank is still occupying Israel.
So in active military zones? How does that make any sense whatsoever? Dumping hundreds of thousands of Jews at or near the front at the very least means that the people doing so expect that those Jews will be killed. Or is the Wehrmacht supposed to feed them? Or maybe the Wehrmacht calls a “time out” and says, “Listen, Ivan, we’ve got hundreds of thousands of Jews here who can’t work. Would you mind taking them off our hands?”I assume that the selections in the camps involved indicating who could be forced to work and who would continue on to be dropped off in regions without government control of the Reich.
I have no idea what you're asking.TlsMS93 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 1:41 am Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Martin Luther declared that the Jews would be deported to the General Government provisionally and from there they would be taken to the occupied eastern territories. Did he mean that they would still be under German influence, including the Reichskomissariat? It is ambiguous. Did the Nazi laws apply where the German army was?
Here's a map of Nazi-controlled Europe at its greatest extentYou forget that the area militarily controlled by the Wehrmarch was much larger than the front and that it was not under any Reichskomissariat and therefore was not in imminent danger. Furthermore, according to the Korherr report, 1.2 million of them would be in this condition, the other 1 million would be a disguise to indicate that it was the Soviets who evacuated them. Therefore, we are talking about 1.2 million from the General Government in these vast regions that were lost sight of in the Soviet counteroffensives and disappeared from the records for obvious reasons.