expected active cooperation. Above all, the Order Service was to take care of the wachas.720 Finally, an agreement was reached and a pact was signed. It happened on the day when the Order Service ordered the first round-up of Jews for concentration camps.721
And so, on that first fateful night, when the Order Service was diligently rounding up the old and the young, the healthy and the sick (mostly the sick, obviously, because the healthy usually presented the relevant notes of the Issuing Bank) in the streets and houses, at the same time, to commemorate the agreement between the Order Service and [3] the smugglers, a great feast was held at Twarda Street 15, with the high Command of the Order Service and their lady companions in attendance, as well as the most outstanding profiteers led by King Szram, using the diplomatic protocol forms (one by one). The feast with expensive liquor, exquisite food, toasts, etc., etc. lasted until the next morning, and after the party was over, senior officers of the Order Service went to Leszno Street 84722 to check what kind of harvest the night had yielded. One thing spoiled their fun slightly: in the morning, a German patrol stopped the cavalcade of rickshaws led by a slightly inebriated Colonel Szeryński accompanied by a lady friend. The colonel explained that he was returning from inspecting the camp operation.
The above official ball notwithstanding, there was yet another private party held that night at a certain Mr Lederman’s place at Sienna Street 43. This party lasted for two days. In terms of the amount of alcohol imbibed, the private ball surpassed the official one. Employees of the Labour Department at “Collegium” openly expressed their surprise that so many intoxicated Order Service officers had been unleashed into the city.
Thus, the Order Service Command celebrated this double occasion: their lucrative agreement with profiteers and smugglers, and their first major police operation—capturing people for the camps.
