Himmler, the Reichsführer of the SS, decided in October 1941 to stop all the emigration of Jews. From then they were part of his Nazi project of the “Endlösung”, the final solution, no more emigration but extermination of Jews. In January 1942 the Wannsee conference was held on how this destruction of the Jews was to be carried out. In France Dannecker was the SS-Hauptsturmführer and responsible for Jewish affairs, also in the French protectorate in Morocco. Himmler was his boss and Dannecker had to carry out the orders of Himmler.
In June 1942 the Vichy government prohibited the flight of refugees from France and in July 1942 the Nazi government in Berlin issued a prohibition on the emigration of Jews from Casablanca.To my knowledge Michel Abitbol was the first who discovered this order and wrote in his book just one little paragraph with reference to the archive sources. What is interesting about this archive file is, apart from the decision from Berlin to stop the emigration from Morocco of July 10, 1942 is that on March 25 and June 8, 1942 the German consulate in Casablanca, through consul Auer, sent letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin on the emigration of Jewish refugees to America. In these letters the consulate reports about the increasing flow of Jewish refugees, about their numbers and the names of the ships. What were the German Nazis planning to do with the Jewish refugees in Morocco?
