Anyone have a close-up of this pic of Schwarz?
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Regarding the Schwarz & Greiser photo, here are some notes regarding the occasion:
04.06.1942 -- Inspected the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (population approximately 100,000
at that time), together with a large group of officials which included Reichsleiter
Franz Xaver Schwarz and the Litzmannstadt Oberbürgermeister Werner Ventzki. The
inspection lasted approximately one hour, after which Greiser and his companions
expressed satisfaction with the level of organization and productivity they'd seen to
the Ghetto Chairman, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. The following contemporary
description of his visit, written the same day, was recorded in the official Ghetto
“Chronicle”:
"... Around ten o'clock ten private cars arrived bearing, among others, Gauleiter Greiser and minister [sic! Reichsleiter] Schwarz. The head of the Central Workshop Bureau, A. Jakubowicz, accompanied by the Chairman [Rumkowski] as leader of the ghetto, escorted the guests about.
The commission first visited the workshops on the right, that is the Balut Market side (of the ghetto) and, later, went to the other side to visit the Textile Department.
Traffic in the city was very limited, no children were to be seen in the streets, and neither were the weak and infirm old people who make for an indispensable part, to be encountered everywhere, of daily life in the ghetto. In a word, the ghetto seemed to be a labor camp where idle people are not seen on the street during the day.
The populace knows and understand that this is not an ordinary inspection but concerns something larger, more importantthe question of its very existence. The result of today's inspection is still unknown, but a positive impression could be read on the visitors' faces." (Source: Lucjan Dobroszycki [Editor], The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944)
The teenaged ghetto resident Dawid Sierakowiak wrote of the visit in his diary as follows:
04.06.1942: “Fortunately the ‘Greiser’ cloud has passed. Greiser visited the ghetto, toured many workshops, and was reportedly very happy with our Arbeitsgebiet. The visit was over by the afternoon, and after it, bread was issued…”
06.06.1942: “Food supplies will get a bit better now because the ghetto reportedly has made quite a good impression on Greiser. Potatoes have been arriving continually since yesterday.” (Source: Alan Adelson & Robert Lapides, Eds., Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege)
Best wishes,
~ Mike Miller
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Great Info Mike! and also thanks Stonemint, and great late war photo of Dr. Ley...it was interesting to see as the war ground down to an end, the flamboyant dress of the Reichsleiters (and even Goering's gaudy garb) gave way to these very modest service field tunics. The Glory days of the "Golden Pheasants" had long since ended.
Bob
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