Merciless extermination of Polish Jewry is the avowed aim of the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland, it was charged by the Polish Government-in-exile today in a survey on the Jewish situation in both the Nazi and Soviet areas of the conquered state.
The survey acknowledges the comparatively better position of the Jews in Soviet-occupied Poland but emphasizes that even there they are “praying for the restoration of a free democratic Poland where they may work, earn and live their own way.”
Dwelling at length on the barbaric practices of the Nazis, the survey points out that while the Poles have also been subjected to sadistic treatment by the Nazis “there is no comparison with the inhuman treatment” accorded the Jews. The survey charges that the Gestapo, Nazi secret police, has been given a monopoly in control of the Jews and is applying all possible methods leading to their extermination, including expulsions, torture, humiliation and attempts to stir up the Polish population against them.
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