[Jewish emigration I]

The file contains diplomatic correspondence between various diplomats of the German Foreign Ministry regarding the emigration of Jews from Germany following the Evian Conference of July 1938. The correspondence mostly contains letters and reports by Ernst von Weizsäcker and Ernst Woermann concerning a possible meeting between George Rublee, the director of the “Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees” that had been founded during the Evian Conference, and German Officials. While American, British and French diplomats urged the German Authorities to meet Rublee, the German side first rejected this plan, but finally agreed to arrange an unofficial meeting in Brussels between Robert Pell (Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees) and German Representatives. Furthermore, the correspondence is on the so-called “Schacht-Plan” – conceived in order to organize the emigration and expropriation of German Jews – and its acceptance by American, British, and French Officials as well as on the state of negotiations with George Rublee. Besides the diplomatic correspondence, the file also contains a typewritten document of three pages, the “Memorandum” on the role of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees issued by the British Embassy in Berlin in October 1938.