SLAUGHTER OF POLES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5

SLAUGHTER OF POLES

BRUTAL GERMAN PLAN RACE OF SLAVES LONDON, Aug. 9. Addressed to “the peoples of the world,” a manifesto published by a conference of delegates representing over 2000 organised underground groups of Polish workers and peasants has been published in Britain. In a foreword, Mr. P. W. Noel Baker, Labour member of the House of Commons for Derby, testifies to the authenticity of the document and says:— “I have seen the underground newspapers which they have circulated in every region in Poland. I have reprints of broadcasts from London which they pass secretly from hand to hand.” Speaking of mass executions, the manifesto says that more people were put to death in the first year of the German occupation than were killed by the steamroller war which passed over Poland in September, 1939. It is clear that the brutality and slaughter carried out by the Nazis is the execution of a deliberate plan. At the will of Hitler, Poland would disappear for ever as a nation and become a race of slaves to the German master. Hitler promised every German soldier that when the war is over he shall be a lord in Poland or in another country which will be conquered. Nearly 200,000 Jews are engaged in forced labour in Poland and, apart from prisoners of war, nearly 500,000 Poles have been kidnapped and deported to work in Germany, where according to Nazi sources, some 700,000 are now in forced labour.