It is in the form of a memorandum from Dannecker of Eichmann's office to Rademacher, dated 15 August 1940, and bearing the title "Madagascar Project". The covering letter states that another copy had been given directly to Ribbentrop.
Text (my translation):
My comment: It is clear that only the Jews of Germany and regions under German occupation were to be transported to Madagascar. In the case of France, only the Jews of the occupied zone are included. The Jewish populations of Germany's allies (Italy, Hungary, Romania) are likewise excluded.1. Situation and Basic Information.
a) With the establishment of the Government-General Poland and the integration of the new German Eastern Gaus, large masses of Jews came under immediate German sovereign power. In addition there are the Jews living in the regions under German military authority. Previous practice showed that even the solution of the Jewish Problem in Reich territory including the Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia by means of emigration can hardly be achieved in the foreseeable future due to the emerging difficulties ( more severe immigration legislation of overseas countries, securing of passage and foreign currency etc). After the addition of the masses in the East, a settlement of the Jewish Problem by emigration has become impossible.
b) At the present time, a total figure of around 4,000,000 Jews is to be reckoned with, which is put together as follows:
1. Germany..........................circa....................743,000 (including the new Eastern Gaus - 500,000)
2. General-Government............circa..................2,300,000
3. Protectorate......................circa.....................77,000
4. Belgium............................circa.....................80,000
5. Holland............................circa....................160,000
6. Luxemburg........................circa.......................2,500
7. Denmark..........................circa.......................7,000
8. Norway............................circa.......................1,500
9. Slovakia...........................circa......................95,000
10. France............................circa.....................270,000
c) The following composition represents the reflection of the preliminary work performed up to now by the Security Police on the project of a placement of these 4,000,000 Jews in Madagascar.
In order to avoid any lasting contact of other peoples with Jews, an overseas solution of an insular character is to be preferred to any other one.
However, examination of the component figures shows that the total of four million represents an over-estimate of close to one million, due to the grossly exaggerated figure for the number of Jews in the Government-General.
That exaggeration is very easy to demonstrate. According to Eichmann's figures, a total of 2.8 million Jews is assumed to be present in the parts of Poland taken by Germany (2.3 million in the Government-General plus 0.5 million in the annexed territories). But there were another 1.1 million Jews in part of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union, which would yield a total Jewish population of Poland of 3.9 million in 1939, an impossibly high figure given that the 1931 census had found a total of three million Jews.
In fact, a census carried out in 1940 in the four districts of the Government-General had found a total of 1.3 million Jews, considerably less than the 1.6 million expected on the basis of the 1931 census. The difference between the expected figure and the actual figure was due to the movement of some 300,000 Jews from the German to the Soviet Zone of Occupation in the last months of 1939, a movement that was partly voluntary and partly forced by the Germans.
Thus, the total Jewish population of the German and Soviet zones in 1940 was:
German zone:..................1.8 million (G-G 1.3m, annexed territories 0.5m)
Soviet zone:....................1.4 million (1.1m native, 0.3m refugees from German zone)
Total:...........................3.2 million (which is consistent with the 3 million recorded in the 1931 census, taking into account population growth less emigration).
The conclusion must be that somebody in Eichmann's office mistakenly put down a 2 instead of a 1 in entering the figure for the General-Government.
If the true figure of 1.3 million is substituted for the incorrect one, the numbers given in section (b) add up to 2.736 million, a much more manageable number to settle in Madagascar.
More to follow.