A GRIM WARNING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 64, 16 March 1944, Page 2

A GRIM WARNING

GERMANS IN POLAND

BE CAUTIOUS AND WARY

LONDON. Grim warning against their compu!sory "hosts," and a spirit of grave uneasiness is shown in printed instructions now being issued to Germany's "bombed-out" evacuees who are being sent to Poland.

"Never forget that the Pole is a stranger to us, and perhaps even more: our enemy," states the leaflet "Do not be deceived by the Pole's smooth, deceptively quiet manner While he is assuring you of his sub-' missiveness, he is dreaming secretly of victory."

"There cannot be anything in common between Germans and Poles. Keep your distance with regard to everything Polish. "Anybody who has anything to do with Poles excludes himself thereby from the German community and renders himself liable to action bv the police. The Polish Church always fosters Polish hatred.

"The Poles here are treated strictly but justly. The Poles mis. understand concessions and weakness, while, on the other hand self" assertion and injustice are unworthy of a German. *

"Every German in the Wartheland should wear the badge of the grout) to which he belongs, or simply a swastika. Anybody who fails to do this will be considered a Pole and treated accordingly.

"Be cautious. Many Poles under stand your language. Remember they will magnify your tales about the bombing enormously, and spread them everywhere."