Poles, Jews, Ukrainians and Russians in Nazi occupied Poland were told yesterday, in a message by Josef Stalin broadcast over the Soviet radio stations, that the day of their literation from the Nazis is not distant. The message urged them “to register all the atrocities committed against them by the Nazis, in order that the guilty should be punished for their terror and barbarism.”
Telling the population of Poland that “the Soviet Army is approaching the Polish frontiers,”Statlin emphasized in his message that the enslaved people of Poland should be ready to take revenge for all the oppression and torture which they are now suffering under the Nazis.
Meanwhile, the German military command, preparing for any eventuality which the Spring may bring to the Nazi armies on the Soviet front, is reported today to be continuing the deportation of Jews from certain Nazi-held sections in Poland which are now being fortified at a feverish pace. Most of the Jews have to proceed to Warsaw where they will be added to the 500,000 Jews already jammed in the Warsaw ghetto.
NAZI ADMINISTRATORS IN POLAND REPLACED BY GESTAPO OFFICIALS
A drastic reorganization of the Nazi administrative staff in occupied Poland is also reported to have started in connection with the Spring military plans. Local German administrators in various cities in Poland, whom the Gestapo feels have been “softened up” by corruption and bribery, are being supplanted with more ruthless Nazi officials. This reorganization especially affects the Jews in Poland, since the new Nazi administrators, all of whom come from Gestapo ranks, are displaying special zeal in persecuting the local Jewish population in an effort to justify their appointments.
The Krakauer Zeitung , reaching here today from Poland, carries the news that the Nazi commissar for Lwow has been replaced by a Nazi officer from Austria named Moekler. “The appointment of Moekler means that Lwow will now be ruled with a steel fist,” the Nazi newspaper writes. It also reports that the Director for Internal Affairs in the Government General has been replaced by Siebert who is a notorious Gestapo leader.
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