(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 We turn now to the specific items of proof.
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 and the liaison officer between the Armament Department Upper East and the Chief Administrative Officer (subsequently called Govenor General) had with Minister FRANK on October 3, 1939 in Posen, FRANK explained the directive, and the economic and political responsibilities which had been conferred upon him by the Fuehrer and according to which he intended to administer Poland.
According to these directives, Poland can only be administered by utilizing the country through means of ruthless exploitation, deportation of all supplies, raw materials, machines, factory installations, etc.
, which are important for the German war economy, availability of all workers for work within Germany, reduction of the entire Polish economy to absolute minimum necessary for bare existence of the population, closing of all educational institutions, especially technical schools and colleges in order to prevent the growth of the new Polish intelligentsia.
"Poland", defendant FRANK stated, (and this is a quotation), "Poland" shall be treated as a colony:
the Poles shall be the slaves of the Greater German World Empire'". I should like also to quote from the last 6 lines of the English 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 after the war would become more difficult, if not impossible, so that Poland would be reduced to its proper position as an agrarian country which would have to depend upon Germany for 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 for the economical administration of the occupied territories.
I will repeat them here in short: 1. The task for the economic treatment of the various administrative regions is different depending on whether a country is involved which will be incorporated politically into the German Reich or whether we deal with the Government General, which, in all probability, will not be made a part of Germany.
In the first mentioned, territories the reconstruction and expansion of the economy, the safeguarding of all their production facilities and supplies must be aimed at, as well as a complete incorporation into the Greater German economic system at the earliest possible time.
On the other hand, there must be removed from the territories of the Government General all raw materials, scrap materials, machines etc.
, which are of use for the German war economy.
Enterprises which are not absolutely necessary for the meager maintenance of the naked existence of the population must be transferred to Germany, unless such transfer would require an unreasonably long period of time and would make it more practical to exploit these enterprises by giving them German orders to be executed at their present location."
Once the Government General had been stripped of its industrial 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 that various agencies, as, for instance, the Military Economic 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, Warsaw shall not be rebuilt nor is it the intention of 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 realize, in constant close collaboration with the competent legislative organizations, the National Socialist program in the entire sphere of the law."
Second, before quoting from the aforementioned report of the 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 increase of agricultural production, the Government General can at the most absorb 1 to 1,5 million resettlers, as it is already over-populated.
....... By further absorption of 1.6 million resettlers, the 1925 Reich census figure of 133 inhabitants per square kilometer would be reached, which practically because of already existing rural over-population and lack of industry would result in a double over-population.
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 remaining Jews, preferably the younger age groups from Germany proper, Austria, Sudetengau and the Protectorate (altogether over 1 million)".Continuing the quotation, the report goes on with respect to transfer from the Reich, and I continue to quote:
"The Polish intelligentsia who have been politically active in the past, and potential political leaders;the leading economic personalities, comprising owners of large estates, industrialists and businessmen, etc.
;
the peasant population, so far as it has to be removed in order to carry out by strips of German settlements the encirclement of Polish territories in the East."
Next, I quote the last paragraph on page 1 of the English text. The German text is at page 8, lines 3-10:
"In order to relieve the living space of the Poles in the Government General as well as in the liberated East, one should remove cheap labor temporarily by the hundreds of thousands, employ them for a few years in the old Reich, and thereby hamper their native biological propagation.
(Their assimilation into the old Reich must be prevented)."
Finally, I quote from the last paragraph of page 2 of the English text. In the German text it is the last 5 lines of page 40:
"Strictest care is to be taken that secret circulars, memoranda and official correspondence which contain instructions detrimental to the Poles are kept steadily under lock and key so that they will not some day fill the White Books printed in Paris or the U.S.A."Your Honors will recall, from your own experiences, the vicious 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.
The plans for the deportation of thousands of innocent people, 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.
I initially quote lines 15 to 17 of page 1 of the English 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."
I next quote the first two lines of the last paragraph on page 1 of the English text. The German text appears at page 2, lines 2 to 4.
"agriculture:
The task consists of obtaining the greatest possible agriculture production from the new Eastern Gaus disregarding questions of ownership."
I next quote from the first sentence of the second paragraph of page 2 of the English text.
This is at page 3, lines 22-24 of the German text.
"Special questions concerning the Government General:
The General Government will have to receive the Jews who are ordered to emigrate from Germany, and the New Eastern Gaus."
Finally, I quote paragraph numbered 2 under Roman numeral II 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 million, of whom 240,000 are Germans, 850,000 well-established 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 are now looked after by welfare, will have to be deported to the General Government.
Therefore, an evacuation of 20,000 further persons can be counted on for the current year."
Comparable reports were made by other Gauleiters at the meeting. These figures, it may be noted, were only as of February 1940.
The forcible deporta-
tions 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 when watching the very difficult work out there performed by the Security Police, supported by your men, who help them a great deal.
Exactly the some thing happened in Poland in weather 40 degrees below zero, where we had to haul away thousands, ten thousands, hundred 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.
For the Jews who were forcibly deported to the Government General there 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 nationals, and racial Germans in the foreign countries.
2. To eliminate the harmful influence of such alien parts of the population, which represent a danger to the Reich, and the German folk community.
3. The forming of new German settlements by re-settling, and in particular by settling of the returning German citizens and racial Germans from abroad.
The Reichsfuhrer SS is authorized to take all necessary general 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 the old sense, that is, to teach the people there the German language and German law, but to see to it that only people of 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 Territories is one of the most essential goals to be accomplished in the German East.
This is the chief national political task, which has to be executed in the incorporated Eastern Territories 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 regaining of lost German blood an urgent necessity.
1. Prevention of a further increase of the Polish intelligentsia, through families of German descent even if they are Polonized.
2. Increase of the population by racial elements desirable for the German nation, and the acquisition of ethno biologically unobjectionable forces for the German reconstruction of agriculture and industry."
Further light upon the goals which the conspirators had set for 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 country, especially some Slav nationality, we must not start from German points of view, and we must not endow these people with decent German thoughts, and logical conclusions of which they are not capable, but we must take them as they really are ...Obviously in such a mixture of peoples, there will always be some racially good types.
Therefore, I think that it is our duty to take their children with us, to remove them from their environment, if necessary by robbing, or stealing them.
Either we win over any good blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people, or we destroy that blood."
Continuing the German text on page 30, line 7 to 16, this continuation 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 East, the creation of the Germanic Reich in this way, or that ..... the fetching home of 30 million human beings of our blood, so that still during our lifetime we shall be a people of 120 million Germanic souls.
That means that we shall be the sole decisive power in Europe.
That means that we shall then be able to tackle the peace, during which we shall be willing for the first twenty years to rebuild and spread out our villages and towns, and that we shall push the borders of our German race 500 kilometers further out to the East."
In furtherance of the unlawful plans disclosed by the last four 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 struggle, but had retained their German nationality.
(3) Persons of German extraction who, although previously connected with the Polish nation, were willing to submit to Germanization.
(4) Persons of German descent, who had been "politically absorbed by the Polish nation", and who would be resistant to Germanization.
The Racial Register was inaugurated under a decree of 12 September 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.
Besides the membership of a German organization, every other activity in favor of the German against a foreign nationality will be considered an active manifestation.
2. Ethnic Germans, who did not actively intervene in favor of the German nationality, but who preserved their traceable German nationality.
3. Persons of German descent, who became connected with the Polish nation in the course of the years, but have on account of their attitude, the pre-requisites to become full-fledged members of the German national community.
To this group belong also persons of non German descent who live in a people's mixed marriage with an ethnic German in which the influence of the German spouse has prevailed.
Persons of Masurian, Slonzak, or upper Silesian descent who are to be recognized as ethnic Germans, usually belong to this group 3.4. Persons of German descent, politically absorbed by the Polish nation (renegades). Persons not included on the list of ethnic Germans are Poles, or foreign nationals.
Their treatment is regulated by BII.
"Members of groups 1 and 2 are ethnic Germans who will be used for the reconstruction in the East.
The differentation between the groups 1 and 2 is important for the National Socialist Party; primarily only members of group 1 should be accepted in the Party according to the instructions of the deputy of the Fuehrer.
"Members of groups 3 and 4 have to be educated as full Germans, that is, have to be re-Germanized in the course of time through an intensive educational training in old Germany.
"The establishment of members of group 4 has to be based on the doctrine, that German blood must not be utilized in the interest of a foreign nation.
Against these who refuse re Germanization, Security Police measures are to be taken."
The basic idea of creating a racial register for persons of German 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.
The entire apparatus of the SS was thrown behind the vigorous 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) Office, Subsequently, you will report to me.
II.The Local State Police (Superior) Office, will charge the persons whose names are turned over to them to prove within eight days that they have applied for entry in the "German Ethnical List."
"If such proof is not submitted, the person in question is to be taken into protective custody for transfer into a concentration 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.
Some of these measures are set forth in sub-paragraph A of paragraph 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 evacuating and resettling them according to instruc tions which will follow later."
"2. A social persons and others who are of inferior heredi tary quality will not be included in the resettlement.
Their names will be turned over at once by the Higher SS and Police Fuehrer (Inspectors of Security Police and Security Service) to the competent State Police (Superior) Office.
The latter will arrange for their transfer into a concentration camp.
"3. Persons with a particularly bad political record will not be included in the resettlement action.
Their names will also be given by the Higher SS and Police Fuehrer (Inspectors of Security Police and Security Service) to the competent State Police (Superior) Office for transfer into a concentration camp.
"The wives and children of such persons are to be resettled in old Reich territory and to be included in the Germanization measures.
Where the wife also has a particularly bad political record, and cannot be included in the resettlement action, her name, too, is to be turned over to the competent State Police Office with a view to imprisoning her in a concentration camp.
In such cases the children are to be separated from their parents and to be dealt with according to III, paragraph 2 of this decree.
"Persons are to be considered as having a parti cularly bad political record who have offended the German nation to a very great degree -- e.g., who par ticipated in persecutions of Germans, or boycotts of Germans, etc."
Coincident with the program of Germanizing persons of German extraction 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 be followed by the victory of the German race over the Polish race, if the regained Eastern sphere -- according to the Fuehrer's will -henceforth shall for all time remain an essential constituent part 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."
