Adolf Eichmann, who had conducted the successful business in Jewish emigration from Vienna, subsequently from Prague, was transferred back to head a Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Berlin. His chief task now, instead of promoting emigration from the Reich to Palestine, the USA and other countries overseas, was simply to deport Jews to the occupied east of Poland as the first, preliminary stage before what Heydrich termed the ‘ultimate aim’ of the Jewish policy.
