On July 19, Himmler issued a deadline for the completion of the "Final Solution" in the Generalgouvernement: "It is my order that the evacuation of the entire Jewish population in the Generalgouvernement area be carried out and completed by December 31, 1942. As of December 31, 1942, no persons of Jewish origin shall be present in the Generalgouvernement. The means to be used are those in accordance with the spirit of the new European arrangement, as are vital to achieve the ethnic separation of races and nations, and as are needed to assure the safety and purity of the German Reich and the entire German sphere of influence. Any breach of this arrangement endangers quiet and order throughout the German sphere of influence, provides resistance movements with a focal point, and creates a source for the spread of moral and physical scourge. For all these reasons, a total purge is needed and therefore must be carried out."
This order consigned the Jews of the Generalgouvernement to death, and their sentence was carried out efficiently in the months to come.
