There are numerous examples of the Nazis using "resettlement" as a code word for murder (I posted one above). Of course the code word "resettlement" still bears a literal meaning, so we cannot assume it always means killing if it is used in a Nazi document.
But if the Nazis say that they have "resettled to the Russian East" the millions of Jews sent to the Reinhardt camps - yet there is no (infrastructural, communicative, or testimonial) evidence of these purported resettlements of millions of Jews, and all the witnesses (and various other documents, e.g. the Stroop Report) state explicitly that they were killed - it is much more plausible that they were using the term in the established code-word sense, i.e. meaning to kill.
Zo, do you deny that "resettlement" was at least sometimes used as a code word for killing by the Nazis? If so I can share other documents.
But if the Nazis say that they have "resettled to the Russian East" the millions of Jews sent to the Reinhardt camps - yet there is no (infrastructural, communicative, or testimonial) evidence of these purported resettlements of millions of Jews, and all the witnesses (and various other documents, e.g. the Stroop Report) state explicitly that they were killed - it is much more plausible that they were using the term in the established code-word sense, i.e. meaning to kill.
Zo, do you deny that "resettlement" was at least sometimes used as a code word for killing by the Nazis? If so I can share other documents.
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