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The Protocol III

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On page 7 at the bottom, the protocol deals with the plan of doing more than just exploiting the forced labour of Jews deported to the East:

In large labour columns, separated by sex, the Jews capable of working will be dispatched to these regions to build roads. In the process, a large portion will undoubtedly drop out through natural reduction.

In other words, the people were killed through forced labour.

The top of page 8 then describes what is to be done with those who survive this torture:

Those who ultimately should possibly get by will have to be given suitable treatment because they unquestionable represent the most resistant part…

This means that all those surviving the harsh regime of forced labour were to be killed in other ways. Here, the expression used is ‘suitable treatment’, very similar to the euphemistic ‘special treatment’ – Sonderbehandlung – regularly appearing in other documents of the perpetrators as a code for murdering inmates.

The protocol does not mention plans to deal with those unable to work – such as the children and the sick. Obviously it went without saying that they would be murdered straightaway. The protocol does refer to people over 65 years old, mentioning a plan under consideration to create an ‘old-age ghetto’ in Theresienstadt.