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Deportation (n.) routed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠each trainload of Jews by absorptive capacity — the bureaucratic measure of the number a killing installation could handle.

Deportation (n.) looked ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠like this from Berlin in 1943: 'Day in day out the people here leave for their own funeral.'

Deportation (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its first cases was a test case, an experiment in catastrophe: could Jews be made to walk to their doom on their own feet, carrying their own little valises, in the middle of the night — and would the neighbors care?

Deportation (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠herding five thousand people into freight cars and letting them suffocate as the train wandered without aim for days — Rumanian style — so horrible that the Germans intervened.

Deportation (n.) had ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to be forever: a priest-led government demanded a guarantee that Jews taken by the Germans would stay in the East and never return to Slovakia.