The deathcamp at Chelmno was established to kill the Jews of the Warthegau (the annexed Polish province of Poznan and parts of the vojwodships Bydgoszcz, Lodz, Pomorze and Warsaw).In 1939 4,922,000 people lived in these districts, among them 385,000 Jews. Gauleiter Arthur Greiser declared the Warthegau as the “drilling ground” of National Socialism, where Nazi population policy would be …