In 1940, Wolters, a longtime diarist, suggested to Speer that he begin keeping a "Chronik", or chronicle of the GBI's activities. Speer agreed, and instructed department heads to send Wolters raw material for the "Chronik" on a regular basis. Among other matters, the "Chronik" detailed the GBI's responsibility for administering a 1939 amendment to the Nuremberg Laws which allowed Aryan landlords to evict Jewish tenants with virtually no notice. For example, the entry for August 1941 included this information: "According to a Speer directive a further action for the clearing of some five thousand Jewish flats is being started." The November entry noted that "roughly 4,500 Jews were evacuated". The dispossessed Jews were sent to the occupied territories, with the newspapers reporting, as directed by Goebbels: "Over the past few days many Jews have hurriedly left Germany, leaving debts behind them."