The monthly Revue de Paris, in an article by Stefan Wlocewski, reports that the homes of 2,000,000 Poles and Jews driven from “incorporated Poland” will be distributed to Germans from the Baltic, the South Tyrol, from overpopulated German agricultural districts and from the evacuated Western Front area. The settlers from western Germany have already made their appearance in Gniezno, whose former population has been interned in concentration camps, the writer says.
According to the articles, the Polish “Government General” is destined “to serve as a jail for the population which was emptied out of the annexed territories, and the people will be transformed into “a mass of ruined, starved, terrorized individuals who–driven mad and undermined by illness and privation–are driven to despair and finally to death.”
The article quotes a circular letter of Governor-General Hans Frank, dated Feb. 12, authorizing confiscation of food for German troops and limiting the bulk of the Polish population to “a strict minimum” of food for the duration of the scarcity.
Paris newspapers reported today that during the week ending May 5, Germans in Poland were allotted five eggs, Poles three and no indication was given of whether Jews received egg rations. A Nazi decree prohibited sale of butter and margarine to Poles between May 6 and 12.
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