 I also want to mention a very difficult subject before you here, completely openly. It should be discussed amongst us, and yet, nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public. I am talking about the Jewish evacuation: the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people are being exterminated," every Party member will tell you: "Perfectly clear, it’s part of our plans, we’re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, ha!, a small matter. ” 
—Heinrich Himmler, 4 October 1943
 


Himmler

Dr. Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) travelled to Lauban/Lower Silesia on March 8th 1945 to encourage the troops of the different divisions. At the right corner of the photo the supreme commander of Army Group Center (Heeresgruppe Mitte) the later Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner.

Dr. Goebbels in Lauban

Heinrich Himmler (on the front passenger's seat) in the Ghetto of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), June 1941, with the chairman of the Jewish Council, Chaim Rukowski, to the left of the car.