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Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels keynoted the Frederick II theme last week in a speech at Posen, in which he quoted the great ruler's retort to his generals when they refused to follow him: "Then I will continue the war alone." This savored of an ultimatum from the Nazi Party to those German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter...
...hard but just fate" is the way Gauleiter Arthur Greiser of Posen described the treatment meted out to the "subhuman Slavs...
...gather information on Nazi treatment of Poland is the Catholic Church. Last week the Vatican radio let go for three days running on this subject, later released a bloodcurdling, stomach-turning report on treatment of Poles prepared by Augustus Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, who escaped to Rome...
...year, with its frail but refreshing promise of peace, brings us almost daily from Warsaw and Cracow, from Pomerania, Posen and Silesia, a tale of destitution, destruction and infamy of every description. . . . These are not confined to the sections of the country under Russian occupation, heart-rending as news from that quarter has been. Even more violent and persistent is the assault upon elementary justice and decency in that part of prostrate Poland that has fallen to German administration...
...prison, was recently chosen by Adolf Hitler as the site of his long-planned Jew-sump. By next April 1, according to a German government decree, 150,000 Jews must be evacuated to Lublin or other "reservations" like it from Bohemia, 65,000 from Vienna, 30,000 from Posen and the onetime Polish Corridor, 175,000 from the Lodz district, 240,000 from Germany proper...