On August 28, 1943 Eichmann convened a meeting in the RSHA in Berlin with Heinz Roethke, who served as an expert on Jewish Affairs (Judenberater) in France. In a report of this meeting issued by Roethke’s assistant Horst Ahnert, it is announced that the quota of the Jews to be deported would be raised to 20,000 before the end of 1942. Because Eichmann expected limited means of transport from November to January he instructed the department of Jewish Affairs in Brussels to increase the transports. Starting from mid-September he could make daily a transport train available. In a letter dated September 15 Reeder reported to von Falkenhausen that up to this date 10,000 foreign Jews residing in Belgium had been deported from Mechelen and that the Sipo hoped to deport 20,000 Jews by the end of October. At the same meeting it was also planned that all foreign Jews would be deported before June 1943. Belgian Jews were still exempt from deportation. In order to meet Eichmann’s quota, raids were organized in which masses of Jews were arrested. From mid-August until the end of September the Sipo-SD organized four raids in Antwerp and one in Brussels. Since it was feared that the Belgian authorities would protest against the raids and that the Belgian population would sympathize with the Jews, Reeder forbade Ehlers to conduct any further raids. It was also decided that after September 3, Jews would no longer be summoned by means of call-up letters. After the last series of raids between September 21 and 25 in Antwerp and one smaller raid in Liege, the Sipo, the FG (Feldgendermerie - German military police units) and the Flemish SS carried out only individual arrests. They also hunted down Jews who had gone into hiding or who tried to escape to France, and deported them to the Mechelen camp....