Heinz Hoeppner, head of the Central Resettlement Office in Nazi-occupied Poland, sent a memo to Eichmann in which he writes the following:
"It would be sheer fantasy to discuss further organization in these intake areas, since fundamental decisions must first be made. . . . [I]t is essential that we be totally clear from the outset as to what is to be done with these displaced populations that are undesirable for the Greater German settlement areas. Is the goal to permanently secure them some sort of subsistence, or should they be totally-eradicated?" (quoted in Mazower, p. 208)
The question: how similar are the bureaucratic memos written today in some obscure office in Washington?
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