[Report about the Jews in Belarus and dispute about elimination or conscript labor]

[Report about the Jews in Belarus and dispute about elimination or conscript labor] 

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Report of the department 2 of the SS command in occupied Belarus about the Jews in Belarus. Estimation of the number of Jews in the"Generalbezirk Weissruthenie" (occupied Belarus). Statement about 41.000 executions of Jews that are known to the command of the Security Police and Security Intelligence. Notice that a unknown number of Jews were among the executed of executions of former death squads and the Wehrmacht. Description of the socio-economic situation of the Jews in the"Generalbezir". Notice that the elimination of the Jews causes a loss of skilled workers. Notice that areas with lot of Jews are areas with higher resistance. Therefor statement that for securing the territory resolving the Jewish Question is important but needs to consider economic need of consript Jewish labor. Statement of dispute between Wehrmacht who pushes for extermination of the Jews and the civil administration who urges the need of skilled Jewish workers. Report about the situation of the Ghetto Minsk which is divided and has a section for German Jews. report about the conditions in the section of the German Jews where half of the Jews who can work are seriously sick. Notice that most of the Jews in the German section of the Ghetto seem not to know about their fate while those who do keep quiet. Explicit notice that mass executions can't be executed because of the Weather conditions that don't allow to dig mass graves. 

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