Dr. Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General for Poland, in an interview with foreign correspondents in Berlin on Friday, had the following to say about the situation of the Polish Jews–conflicting with all other reports that have come from the occupied territory:
(1) The Jews are unhampered by decree in any activities. “I have made no decrees to hinder them in the exercise of their trades or professions. There are no racial laws preventing them from mingling with or intermarrying with Poles.”
(2) There is not one concentration camp in the entire territory.
(3) No Jews have been forcefully resettled, but Jews who “immigrated” into the Government-General from Greater German territories have been “settled” in the Lublin area, where there was “plenty of room.” He estimated the number of Jews in Lublin at about 20,000.
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