Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam

[1] The office in Amsterdam organised the deportation of Jewish people from the Netherlands to Germany and Poland from 1941 to 1943.

The Dutch Zentralstelle was founded on the orders of Reinhard Heydrich by request from Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

Jacques Presser wrote that the office would "serve as a model for the solution of the Jewish question" (die Finallösung der Judenfrage) in all European states under German rule.

Soon after its founding, leadership of the Zentralstelle was given to Willy Lages by Wilhelm Harster, Chief of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).

Lages replaced Hellmuth Reinhard, who was asked to leave after quarrelling with members of the Jewish Council and with his superior.