Chapter 35: The Fate of the Jews
How many Jews are there in Germany, Zhuo Fei, who has the memory of later generations, is not a history buff, so naturally there is no way to know these contents. But judging from Vivien's telegram from Austria, if Zhuo Fei had enough capacity and means to transport them, they would be able to smuggle at least a million Jews from Germany. What is the concept of one million people, if it were placed in China in the future, it may be the scale of a small and medium-sized city, but in 1938, it was an extremely terrifying number.
According to the course of history, the Japanese army would attack Guangzhou in October 1938, and it was already the end of June, leaving Zhuo Fei with little time left, and he had to organize two large-scale immigration operations in succession within these four months. Each visa to China costs $20, and Zhuo Fei plans to smuggle at least 500,000 Jews from Germany to China, from which he can earn as much as 10 million dollars from the sale of visas, excluding the portion allocated to the SS and the Gestapo, Zhuo Fei can still fall at least seventy percent.
$7 million was not a small amount of money in 1938, half of this money would be used by Zhuo Fei to hire the fleet, and the rest would be used to finance the purchase of related supplies in Germany. Although Zhuo Fei only took out a few million dollars, these were all cash that could really be held in his hands, coupled with the acquiescence of Zhuo Fei and Hitler, the SS and the Gestapo turned a blind eye to He Fengshan's behavior after getting the benefits.
He Fengshan was undoubtedly a great man, and in the face of the strong rise of Germany, at this time no diplomats of any country were willing to help the Jews in Austria, and these helpless Jews had to be imprisoned in concentration camps and secretly executed. Only He Fengshan bravely stood up and issued them visas to China. Now He Fengshan has a greater ability to help them, because this matter has been closely linked to the interests of the SS and the Gestapo, especially in the past few weeks, the attitude of the SS and the Gestapo towards He Fengshan has become more and more deferential, which is simply different from when he was a diplomat.
In the name of the SS and the Gestapo, He Fengshan issued visas to China for Jews who wanted to leave Austria, and the visas he personally issued would even be sent to concentration camps in the open. Dressed in SS uniforms but wearing the golden shield emblem, Huffmann and others were able to go to various concentration camps to select the workers that Zhuo Fei needed, and it is undeniable that there were many excellent talents among the Jews, and Zhuo Fei needed these cheap skilled workers to plan this grand plan. Some other German factories are doing the same thing, but unlike them, Ho Fengshan will demand that his entire family be taken away if he chooses a worker.
At first, the Jews in the concentration camp ignored Huffmann and others in SS uniforms, but after some Jews left the camp with their families and sent back letters, Huffman and others, wearing the golden shield emblem, were regarded as saviors by the Jews in the camps, and every time Huffman and others appeared in the camp, they would be welcomed by the Jews. Everyone rushed to present their talents in front of Huffman and others, hoping to be selected to be taken out of the camp, knowing that if they could be chosen, their families would also be taken out of the camp.
The selection of jobs was a torture for Huffman, and the Jews in the concentration camps saw the hope of survival and hoped that Huffman would pick themselves, but Huffman had only a limited number of places and had to be ruthless. The humanitarian-fervor Huffman and others stayed up all night, and all they could choose was to enter the camp as many times as possible and select as many so-called talents as their bosses needed.
Although Huffmann wanted to save all the Jews here, he had limited ability to do so, and he couldn't reveal his purpose, as there were still SS and Gestapo on the side. So Huffman had to choose those who were physically strong and had technical expertise first, and at the same time try to pick as many people as possible, even if the other party was a super large family with more than a dozen people.
"What's your name?" Hefman asked the young Jewish man standing in front of him formulaically, he didn't even bother to look at the other party's appearance, there were so many Jews who wanted to get visas from him, and it was impossible for Huffman to remember what each of them looked like.
"My name is Ebok Goldestuber, and I'm a mechanic, sir, choose me." The young Jew, who was standing in front of Hefman, raised his head, spoke quickly to Hefman with some crampedness, and shoved a roll of money in his hand in front of Hefman. Huffman glanced up at the other and silently pulled out a form and handed it to him. "Thank you, sir, thank you!" Having this form means that he has passed the initial selection process, which he can take out of the camp and pay the money for the visa, so that he and his family can leave the camp.
Elbock Goldestuber wasn't really much of a mechanic, he was just 19 years old and a college student, but he had to lie in order to survive. After getting the form given by Huffman, Abbock quickly gathered his family and waited quietly in the open space that Huffman had enclosed with ropes, according to the orders of the Gestapo, with only his belongings, waiting for a truck to leave the haunted place. In fact, the Abbock family did not have much to pack, and when they entered the concentration camp, all their valuables were stripped of by the Nazis, and even the necessary sets of clothes remained, so the time they spent on packing up was almost negligible.
Before boarding the car, the form that Abok had already filled out, and it took more than two hours to finally reach the destination with the truck bumpy all the way. Aibock was carrying a small bag with clothes in one hand and his mother in the other, and his sister, who was only ten years old, followed closely and reached out to grasp the corner of his brother's clothes. When they got out of the car, they found themselves in a factory with high walls, and several Jews wearing the red armbands were standing at a small table waiting to register, and when they saw that there were no SS soldiers around them, the Ebbock family was secretly relieved like everyone else, and it seemed that the situation was not bad.
All the people who had just come out of the truck lined up, and soon it was the turn of the Eboks family to register, and according to the red armbands, the apprehensive Ebbock slowly walked up to the Jew in charge of registration with his own form. "Hello young man, my name is Thor, and it's safe to come here. Now, report your family's name and expertise, and I will register your information. Saul, who was over half a hundred years old, was also a Jew brought out of the concentration camp by Hefmann, and because he had been a teacher, Hefman sent him to bring people to receive the new Jews.
Albock quickly registered his family's information, and although he was not a mechanic, his father was a real mechanic during his lifetime, and he was a very high-level one. Abok himself studied electronics in college, and he earned his college tuition as an apprentice in an electronics factory, so Saul, who was in charge of the registration data, quickly marked a red secret mark on Abbock's data that represented the degree of importance.
After registering their information, the family and other newcomers were taken into an empty workshop, which was empty and unfurnished, but the family lived together without the fear of being separated as in a concentration camp. A few days later, after the Ebbock family had gradually adjusted to life in the factory, Huffman and others, who had brought them out of the concentration camp, suddenly appeared, along with a large number of wagons.
"Okay, you've all been selected, and your visas have been given. Now, I'm going to say that you're about to leave here, and Bremerhaven is going to be the place you want to go. We have prepared a big ship in the port of Bremerhaven, where you will board a ship and go to China, where you will live until the end of the war. Hefman's words made Ebbock cheer in unison, as long as they could get out of this desperate country, they wouldn't mind going anywhere they could.
Oil was Germany's control resource, and the SS and the Gestapo could not lend a truck to Hefmann to transfer these Jews to the port of Bremerhaven. So the carriages that Herfmann and his men brought became the main means of transportation for a large number of Jews to Bremerhaven Harbour, and Hefmann also prepared some bicycles for young people like Ebbock so that they could get to Bremerhaven Harfen as soon as possible.
Zhuo Fei took advantage of Hitler's trust in him, as well as the power of money and the convenience of He Fengshan, to get a large number of Jews from Austria, and these Jews also tried their best to go to Bremerhaven Port by all means. The first group of 3,500 Jews of the Hefmann organization had just arrived in the port of Bremerhaven, followed by a second group of more than 10,000 Jews who had already arrived near Hanover, and at this time, Zhuo Fei had just set off from Berlin to the port of Bremerhaven.
With the money in his hand and Gustav's help, Zhuo Fei obtained a piece of wasteland near Bremerhaven Harbour, although it was only used temporarily, but the dozens of guards who had arrived at Bremerhaven Harbour in advance had already set up a temporary containment point. Although the thin wooden fence was not as strong as the barbed wire, it also gave the temporary shelter a little bit of shelter, and finally gave a temporary shelter to the 3,500 Jewish refugees who had arrived in Bremerhavenhamn.