GERMANS IN POLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 9

GERMANS IN POLAND

Enthusiastic descriptions of th# arrival of the Baltic Germans in Poland have been appearing.lately in the German Press. No word of the criticism is included; but if half the facts in the articles are true a remark- > able feat of organisation has; been, accomplished. Trains arrive at centres like Posen bearing peasants, , pro-* fessional men, civil servants, industrial workers, their women and children higgledy-piggledy. They are greet eel at the station much as British! evacuated children were greeted, fed, entertained, and then allotted to new quarters in farms, villages, and small towns, where they are to form the' "living East Wall of the Reich." They go through the hands of labour! organisers, doctors, financial experts, and social workers, so as to ensure that the right man is put in the right place:1 They are given farms; businesses, and administrative posts taken; from ■' the Poles. It is quite clear that their function in Poland is to act as \a ruling class, for which the Poles will work as unskilled labourers. As many of the immigrants have, left money and goods behind them*in their Baltic homes, the future has nothing to offer them save what they^can make out-'of the ex» • ploitation of Poland.-Their safety iswatched over by the Black Guards 4 and Storm Troopers, and the Labou* v Corps has for some time been worliw , ing at the roads and farms, repairing the damage done by the war. *