(c) They planned to deport all able-bodied Polish workers to Germany for work in he Nazi war machine. This served the two-fold purpose of helping to satisfy the labor requirements of the Nazi was machine and preventing the propagation of a new generation of Poles. Nr. Dodd has already produced abundant proof on this tonic, and I shall do not more than refer to it.
(d) They planned to mould all persons in the incorporated area who were deemed to possess German blood, into German subjects who would religiously adhere to the principles of National Socialism. To that end, the conspirators set up an elaborate racial register. Those who resisted or refused to cooperate in this program were sent to concentration camps.
(e) They planned to bring thousands of German subjects into the incorporated area for purposes of settlement.
(f) and finally, they planned to confiscate the property - particular ly the farms - of the Poles, the Jews and all dissidend elements. The confiscation of the property of Jews was part of the conspirators' larger program of extermination. Confiscation like wise served three additional purposes: (1) it provided land for the new German settlers and enabled the conspirators to reward their adherents: (2) dispossessed Polish property owners could be shipped to Germany for work in the production of implements of war; and (3) the separation of Polish farmers from their wives furthered the plan to prevent the growth of a new generation of Poles I first offer in evidence Document No. EC 344-16, which is USA Exhibit No. 297.
This document is a report of an interview with defendant FRANK on 3 October 1939, and was found among the files of the OKW which were assembled in bulk at the Fechanheim Document Center. This particular document was included in a large report prepared in the OKW by one Captain Varain at the direction of General Thomas, then Chief of the Military Economic Staff of the OKW. I quote from the first 19 lines of page 3 of the English text.
The German text appears on p. 29, lines 25-36 and p. 30, lines 1-6. The report states, and I quote:
"In the first interview which the chief of the Central Division East and the Chief Administrative Officer (subsequently called Govenor General) had with Minister FRANK on October 3, 1939 in Poland.
According to these directives, Poland can only be machines, factory installations, etc.
, which are important for Polish intelligentsia.
"Poland", defendant FRANK stated, (and this is a quotation), "Poland" shall be treated as a colony:
Empire'".
text. In the German text, it is lines 18 to 23 of page 30.
Defendant Frank further stated, and I quote:
"By destroying Polish industry, its subsequent reconstruction importation of industrial products."
As further proof of the defendants' plan to plunder and despoil the Government General of Poland, I next offer in evidence Document No. EC 410, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 298. In addition to the proof of the defendants' plans to plunder and despoil the Government General, this document demonstrates the difference in treatment which the conspirators planned for the incorporated area of Poland and the Government General. It is a copy of a directive issued and signed by defendant GOERING on 19 October 1939, and was likewise found among the captured OKW files. I quote from lines 1 to 19 on page 1 of the English text. In the German text, it is all of page 1 and the first line of page 2. Defendant GOERING's directive states, and I quote:
"In the meeting of October 13th, I have given detailed instructions I will repeat them here in short:
1. The task for the economic at the earliest possible time.
On the other hand, there must be materials, scrap materials, machines etc.
, which are of use for the German war economy.
Enterprises which are not absolutely giving them German orders to be executed at their present location."
potential, the defendants planned to leave the country desolate. Not even the war damage was to be repaired. This is the clear import of the documents previously introduced, and is likewise made clear by Document No. EC 411, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 299. I offer this document in evidence. This is a copy of an order dated 20 November 1939, by defendant HESS, in his capacity as Deputy Fuehrer. This document was also found in the captured OKW files. I quote the English and German texts in their entirety. Defendant HESS stated, and I quote:
"I hear from Party members who came from the Government General Staff, the Reich Ministry for Labor, etc.
, intend to reconstruct certain industrial enterprises in Warsaw.
However, in accordance with a decision by Minister Dr. FRANK, as approved by the Fuehrer, to rebuild or reconstruct any industry in the Government General."
Turning from the defendants' program of economic spoliation in the Government General to their program of deportation and resettlement, I next offer in evidence Document No. 66-PS, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 300. This is a secret report prepared by the Academy of German Law in January 1940, upon plans for the mass migration of Poles and Jews from incorporated areas of Poland to the Government General, and for the forcible deportation of able-bodied Poles to Germany. This document was obtained from the Ministerial Collecting Settlement at Kassel, Germany.
The date does not appear in the English translation, but it is clearly set forth in the cover page of the original document as January 1940. Before quoting from this document, I ask first, that the Tribunal take judicial notice of the decree of 11 July 1934, embodied in the "Reichsgesetzblatt", Part I, p. 605, 11 July 1934, which provided that the Academy of German Law would be a public corporation of the Reich under the supervision of the Reich Ministers of Justice and the Interior, and that its task would be (quote):
"To promote the reconstruction of German legal life, and to the entire sphere of the law."
Academy of Law, I should like to offer in evidence Document No. 2749-PS, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 301. This is the title page of the publication of the Academy of German Law for 1940. It is offered for the purpose of showing that defendant FRANK was the president of the Academy of German Law during the period that the above-mentioned secret report of the Academy was made. The document specifically states, and I quote:
"Reich Minister Dr. Hans FRANK, President of the Academy for German Law:
7th year 1940."
Now, if I may ask your Honors to turn to Document No. 661-PS, I should first like to quote lines 6 to 24 of page 1 of the English text. In the German text, these extracts appear at page 6, lines 6 to 10; and line 22, page 6 to line 4, page 7. I quote:
"For the carrying out of costly and long-term measures for the already over-populated.
....... By further absorption of 1.6 This figure of 1.6 million will barely suffice to transfer from the Reich:
The Jews from the liberated East (over 600,000), parts of the proper, Austria, Sudetengau and the Protectorate (altogether over 1 million)". transfer from the Reich, and I continue to quote:
"The Polish intelligentsia who have been politically active in the past, and potential political leaders;large estates, industrialists and businessmen, etc.
;
encirclement of Polish territories in the East." The German text is at page 8, lines 3-10:
"In order to relieve the living space of the Poles in the (Their assimilation into the old Reich must be prevented)." English text.
In the German text it is the last 5 lines of page 40:
"Strictest care is to be taken that secret circulars, White Books printed in Paris or the U.S.A." propaganda campaigns conducted by Nazi Germany to discredit the Polish books when they made their appearance in countries friendly to Poland.
The last paragraph from this document which I have just read gives the lie to that whole Nazi propaganda campaign. which are set forth in the document from which I have just quoted, were not mere theories spun by lawyers. They represented, as the next three documents to be offered in evidence will show, a program which was in fact, ruthlessly executed.
I next offer in evidence Document No.2233-PS-G the Frank Diaries 1939, from 25 October to 15 December, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No.302.
This document was obtained from the 7th Army Documentation Center at Heidelberg. I quote from the last paragraph of page 1, carrying over to the first two lines of page 2 of the English text. In the German text, the statements appear at page 19, lines 19 to 28. Defendant FRANK stated, and I quote:
"The Reichsfuehrer SS" -- meaning Himmler -- "wishes that all Jews be evacuated from the newly gained Reich territories. Up to February approximately 1,000,000 people are to be brought in this way into the General Government. The families of good racial extraction present in the occupied Polish territory (approximately 4,000,000 people) should be transferred into the Reich and individually housed and thereby be uprooted as a people."
I next offer in evidence Document No. EC-305, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 303. This exhibit is the top secret minutes of a meeting held on 12 February 1940 under the chairmanship of Defendant Goering on "questions concerning the East." The document was found in the captured OKW files. Himmler and Defendant Frank likewise were present at this meeting. text. These extracts are found in the front page, lines 1 to 8 of the German text. The minutes state, and I quote:
"By way of introduction, the General Field Marshal " -- meaning Defendant Goering -- "explained that the strengthening of the war potential of the Reich must be the chief aim of all measures to be taken in the East." of the English text. The German text appears at page 2, lines 2 to 4.
"agriculture:
ownership."
page 2 of the English text. This is at page 3, lines 22-24 of the German text.
"Special questions concerning the Government General:
ordered to emigrate from Germany, and the New Eastern Gaus." of page 2 of the English text. These statements appear in the German text at page 4, lines 3-19.
"The following reported on the situation in the Eastern territories:
'2. Reichsstatthalter Gauleiter Forster (who said, continuing the quotation) The population of the Danzig/West Prussia Gau (newly acquired territories) is 1.5 Poles and 300,000 immigrant Poles, Jews and asocials (1800 Jews). 87,000 persons have been evacuated, 40,000 of these from Gotenhafen.
From there, also the numerous shirkers, who to the General Government.
Therefore, an evacuation of year."
meeting. These figures, it may be noted, were only as of February 1940.
The forcible deportations which are reported in the exhibits from which I have just read, did not involve merely ordering the unfortunate victims to leave their homes, and to take up new residences elsewhere. These deportations were accomplished, according to plan, in an utterly brutal and inhuman manner. Document No. 1918-PS, which is USA Exhibit No. 304, affords striking proof of this fact, and I offer it in evidence. This is a speech delivered by Himmler to officers of the SS on a day commemorating the presentation of the Nazi flag. It is contained in a compilation of speeches delivered by Himmler, which was captured by counter English, French and US Army. The exact date of the speech does not appear in the exhibit, but its contents plainly show that it was delivered sometime after Poland had been overrun. I quote from the second to the eighth lines of page 1 of the English text. In the German text, this quotation appears at page 52, lines 2 to 10. In this speech Himmler said, and 1 quote:
"Very frequently the member of the Waffen-SS thinks about the deportation of this people here.
These thoughts came to me today thousands; where we had to have the toughness.
.... you should hear this but also forget it again - to shoot thousands of leading Poles -"I repeat the latter part of the statement:
" Where we had to have the toughness.... you should hear this but also forget it again - to shoot thousands of leading Poles." Such Poles from the incorporated area as managed to survive the journey to the Government General could look forward, at best, to extreme hardship, and exposure to every form of degradation and brutality. Your Honors will recall Defendant Frank's statement contained in Document No. EC 344-16, now USA Exhibit No. 297, which was introduced a short while ago, that the Polish economy would be reduced to the absolute minimum necessary for the bare existence of the population.
Your Honors will also recall defendant Goering's directive in Document No. EC 410, now USA Exhibit No. 298, also introduced a few moments ago, that all industrial enterprises in the Government General not absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the naked existence of the polish population must be removed to Germany. A bare and naked existence, by the precepts of the conspirators, meant virtual starvation. was, of course, absolutely no hope. They were, in effect, deported to their graves. The defendant Frank, by his own admissions, had dedicated himself to their complete annihilation. I refer Your Honors to the Frank Diaries, conference volume 1941, October to December, which is Document No. 2233 PS, D, which was introduced by Major Walsh as USA Exhibit No. 281. The particular statement I want to call your attention particularly to is page 4, Document No. 2233-PS. I believe it appears at page 77, lines 9 and 10 of the German text. I quote this from the Defendant Frank's statement:
"We must annihilate the Jews, wherever we find them, and wherever it is possible."
I turn next to that aspect of the conspirators' program which involved the forcible Germanization of persons in the incorporated area who were deemed to possess German blood. I refer now again to incorporated area to persons who were deemed to possess German blood. Such persons, the evidence will show, were given the choice of the concentration camp, or submission to Germanization. Himmler was the chief executioner of this program, and initially I should like to introduce a few documents which disclose the powers bestowed upon him, and his conception of his task.
First, I offer in evidence Document No. 686-PS. This is USA Exhibit No. 305. This is a copy of a secret decree signed by Hitler and Defendants Goering and Keitel, dated 7 October 1939, entrusting Himmler with the task of executing the conspirators' Germanization program. This particular document came from the Ministerial Collection Center of Kassel, Germany. I quote from page 1, line 9 to 21 of the English text. In the German text this extract appears at page 1, lines 13 to 25. Page 1, lines 13 to 25 I quote:
"The Reichsfuehrer SS --" that was Himmler, "has the obligation in accordance with my directives:
1. To bring back for final return into the Reich all German 2. To eliminate the harmful influence of such alien parts of 3. The forming of new German settlements by re-settling, and and administrative measures for the execution of this obligation."
Himmler's conception of his tasks under this decree are plainly stated in the foreword which he wrote for the "Deutsche Arbeit" issue of June/July 1942. The foreword is contained in Document No. 2915-PS, now USA Exhibit No. 306. I quote from the first 4 lines of the English text. The German text appears at page 157:
"It is not our task," Himmler wrote, "To Germanize the East in purely German, Germanic blood live in the East."
Signed "Himmler."
I next offer in evidence Document No. 2916-PS, which is USA Exhibit No. 307. This document contains various materials taken out of "Der Menscheneinsatz" 1940, a confidential publication issued by Himmler's Office for the Consolidation of German Nationhood. I quote initially from lines 7 to 11, of page 1. In the German text, these extracts appear at page 51, first four lines under the letter "D". I quote:
"The removal of foreign races from the incorporated Eastern in the German East.
This is the chief national political task, by the "Reichsfuhrer" SS, Reich Commissioner for the strengthening of the national character of the German people."
I next quote from lines 33 to 39 of page 1 of the English text. In the German text, these extracts appear on page 52, lines 14 to 20. I quote:
"...there are the following primary reasons, which make the 1. Prevention of a further increase of the Polish intelligentsia, 2. Increase of the population by racial elements desirable for the agriculture and industry."
their Germanization program in conquered Eastern areas by a speech delivered by Himmler on 14 October 1943. This speech was published by the National Socialist Leadership, south, of OKW. The document came to us through the Document Section, 3rd U. S. Infantry Division. Excerpts from this speech are set forth in L-70, which is U.S.A. Exhibit No. 308. I quote all of the English text, and in the German text, these excerpts appear at page 23, lines 6 to 11, 12 to 15, 20 to 23, and page 30, lines 7 to 16. Himmler said, and I quote:
"I consider that in dealing with members of a foreign be some racially good types.
Therefore, I think that it stealing them.
Either we win over any good blood that or we destroy that blood."
tinuation of the English text, I believe, continuing, Himmler stated. I quote:
"For us the end of this war will mean an open road to the that ..... the fetching home of 30 million human beings of a people of 120 million Germanic souls.
That means that we shall be the sole decisive power in Europe.
That means further out to the East."
exhibits, which have been offered in evidence, the conspirators contrived a Racial Register in the incorporated area of Poland. The Racial Register was in effect an elaborate classification of persons deemed to be of German blood, and contained provisions setting forth some of the rights, privileges and duties of the persons in each classification. Persons were classified into four groups:
(1) Germans who had actively promoted the Nazi cause.
(2) Germans who had been more or less passive in the Nazi (3) Persons of German extraction who, although previously (4) Persons of German descent, who had been "politically absorbed by the Polish nation", and who would be 1940, issued by Himmler as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, and it is contained in document number 2916-PS, previously introduced in evidence.
It is USA Exhibit No. 307, that is 2916-PS. I quote from page 4 of the English text, lines 14 to 46. In the German text, these extracts appear at page 92, lines 29 to the end of the page, and lines 1 to 9 of page 93. I quote:
"The list of ethnic Germans will be divided into four parts (limited to inter-office use).1. Ethnic Germans who fought actively in the ethnic struggle.
2. Ethnic Germans, who did not actively intervene in favor 3. Persons of German descent, who became connected with community.
To this group belong also persons of non German descent who live in a people's mixed marriage German spouse has prevailed.
Persons of Masurian, 4. Persons of German descent, politically absorbed by the Polish nation (renegades). Persons not included on "Members of groups 1 and 2 are ethnic Germans who will be used for the reconstruction in the East.
The differentation Socialist Party; primarily only members of group 1 should be "Members of groups 3 and 4 have to be educated as full "The establishment of members of group 4 has to be based interest of a foreign nation.
Against these who refuse re Germanization, Security Police measures are to be taken."
extraction was later carried over in a decree of 3 March 1941, signed by Himmler and the Defendants Frick and Hess. This decree is dated 4 March 1941, and is set forth in the "Reichsgesetzblatt" 1941, Part 1, page 118. We ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice thereof. execution of these decrees. Proof of this fact is contained in Document No. R-112-PS, which is USA Exhibit No. 309, and I now offer it in evidence. This exhibit contains directives issued by Himmler as the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood. I quote first from the last two paragraphs of the English text of the directives, 16 February 1942, which is on page three of this exhibit. In the German text this provision appears on page one of the first decree, dated 16 February 1942, paragraph 1 and 2. The directive provided and I now quote:
"1. Where Racial Germans have not applied for entry in the "German Ethnical List," you will instruct the subordinate agencies to turn over their names to the State Police (Superior)
II. The Local State Police (Superior) Office, will charge "German Ethnical List."
"If such proof is not submitted, the person in question is to be camp."
The measures taken against persons in the fourth category - "Polonized Germans" as the conspirators called them - were particularly harsh. These persons were resistant to Germanization, and ruthless measures calculated to break their resistance were prescribed. Where the individual's past history indicated that he could not be effectively Germanized, he was thrown into a concentration camp. II on page 5 of Document No. R 112-PS, and I quote in full from the English text of that particular paragraph. This passage is set forth in the German text at pages 2 to 3 of the second decree dated 16 February 1942, under Roman numeral II. This is what the directive provides:
"II. The Re-Germanization of the Polonized Germans presupposes their complete separation from Polish surroundings. For that reason the persons entered in Division 4 of the German Ethnical List are to be dealt with in the following manner:
"A. They are to be re-settled in Old Reich territory.
"1. The Superior SS and Police Leaders are charged with tions which will follow later."
"2. A social persons and others who are of inferior heredi SS and Police Fuehrer (Inspectors of Security Police and Security Service) to the competent State Police (Superior) Office.
The latter will arrange for their "3. Persons with a particularly bad political record will not be included in the resettlement action.
Their Fuehrer (Inspectors of Security Police and Security Service) to the competent State Police (Superior) "The wives and children of such persons are included in the Germanization measures.
Where the concentration camp.
In such cases the children are to "Persons are to be considered as having a parti German nation to a very great degree -- e.g., who par Germans, etc."
in the incorporated areas, the conspirators, as previously indicated, undertook to settle large numbers of Germans of proven Nazi convictions in that area. This aspect of their program is clearly shown by an article by SS Oborgruppenfuehrer and General of the Police, Wilhelm Koppe, who was one of Himmler's trusted agents.
Excerpts from this article are contained in Document No. 2915-PS, which was earlier introduced as USA Exhibit No. 306. I quote from the second paragraph of the English text of this exhibit. The German text appears at the third line from the bottom of page 170, going over to the first full paragraph of page 171. I now quote Kappe's statement:
"The victory of the German weapons in the East must therefore if the regained Eastern sphere -- according to the Fuehrer's will -of the Greater German Reich.
It is therefore of decisive importance to penetrate the regained German region with German farmers, laborers, civil servants, merchants, and artisans so that a living and deep-rooted bastion of German people can be formed as a protective wall against foreign infiltration, and possibly as a starting point for the racial penetration of the territories farther East."
