I found another item in Kollerstrom's book, who found it in Irving's work. This is a report written by SS Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann, addressed to SS Obergruppenführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, dated June 30, 1943 (again). It is a Nuremberg translation, so it may have inaccuracies. Page 11 of the document. https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/docum ... tter-to-ss
During the searches there has been found, moreover, a number of leaflets in the Hebrew language, inciting the Jews to breed lice carrying Spotted Fever [typhus], in order to destroy the Police Force. In fact several phials filled with lice were confiscated.
Unfortunately the leaflets and vials don't seem to be among the photographs that were included in the report. But maybe those leaflets could still be found somewhere even now.
SPOTTED TYPHUS RAGES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Frantic German Efforts To Check Epidemic
LONDON, January 4.
The Nazis, according to reports from neutral countries, are now
facing a new and terrifying enemy - the disease of typhus.
In October, at a council meeting of the Health Department in
Poland, a Dr. Buermann reported that the seasonal Incidence of
spotted typhus in the Warsaw district was considerably higher than
usual, the chief cause being the Jewish quarter. He went on to say
that as Polish doctors had shown themselves quite incapable of
dealing with the situation, the German administration had set up
plague centres for disinfecting Jewish houses and other preventive measures.
These precautions were intended to prevent the disease from spreading to the German community,
and. even more dangerous, to the Germany army.
Like all hastily improvised preventive measures, they were unsuccessful.
The conditions created by the Germans in the countries they
had conquered were so bad that typhus steadily gained ground.
In November a police notice appeared in the "Danziger Vorposten" for
bidding persons to congregate in the urban district of Gdynia and
making compulsory the notification of feverish complaints.
By December the Germans had publicly recognised the general
danger. Not only were whole districts of Poland Isolated as a precaution,
but German officials and settlers were specially warned that
spotted typhus was as prevalent in winter as in summer and given
a long list of measures they should take for safety. Simultaneously,
Jewish doctors, nurses and sanitary workers in Warsaw were recalled
and even allowed to work in German hospitals.
In the German occupied part of the Ukraine all schools have been
closed indefinitely as "a serious epidemic has broken out." The
population of this territory and those of the Baltic States and
north-east Poland have been forbidden to travel into the Reich.
German officials and military arriving from these countries have
to undergo a period of quarantine.
Mobile de-lousing squads with special vans are working hard In the regions bordering on Russia
where the Germans are organising winter quarters for their soldiers.
Leave for both officers and men from the eastern front has been cancelled.
Conditions in Europe are such that, in spite of German vigilance,
the disease has every chance of spreading. Already it is reported
to be raging in a number of Rumanian units stationed in the area of Bug.
SPOTTED TYPHUS RAGES IN EASTERN EUROPE
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)
Tue 6 Jan 1942, Page 8
