“I can assure you, Party Comrade Sauckel, that it would be a
tremendous help in recruiting workers, if at least part of the
degrading restrictions against the Poles in the Reich could be
abolished. I believe that could be effected.”
I now turn to Page 66 of the document book. This is the only entry in
the diary of the Defendant Dr. Frank which he has signed personally. It
is a memorandum on the development in the Government General after he
had been relieved of all his positions in the Party, and had repeatedly
stated that he was resigning and hoped that now at last his resignation
would be accepted.
I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of this final survey, dated 1
September 1942. It consists of five pages: Pages 66 to 71.
The next quotation is on Page 75 and deals with the safeguarding of art
treasures. I quote the fifth line from the bottom. It is a statement
made by the Governor General:
“The art treasures were carefully restored and cleaned, so that
approximately 90 percent of all the art treasures of the former
state of Poland in the territory of the Government General could
be made safe. These art treasures are entirely the property of
the Government General.”
I ask the Tribunal to turn to Page 92 of this volume. It is an entry
dated 8 December 1942, which was made on the occasion of a meeting of
departmental chiefs and which deals with the supply situation.
I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of that entry. The same for
the entry on Page 93, in which the Governor General speaks of the
question of recruiting workers and most severely condemns all measures
of force.
The next entry, which appears important to me and which should be read
into the record, is on Page 108. It concerns a press conference, and I
ask the Tribunal to turn directly to Page 110. I quote the third
paragraph:
“The Governor General sums up the result of the conference and
states that, with the participation of the president of the
department for propaganda and the press chief of the Government,
all points will be comprised in a directive to be issued to all
leading editors of the Polish papers. Instructions for the
handling of matters concerning foreigners, in the press and in
the cultural field, will be included in this directive. The
conciliatory spirit of the Reich will serve as a model.”
I now ask the Tribunal to turn to Page 127 of the document book, a
conference of 26 May 1943, which deals with the question of food. I
quote the eighth line:
“We must understand that the first problem is the feeding of the
Polish population; but I would like to say, with complete
authority, that whatever happens with the coming rationing
period in the Government General, I shall, in any case, allot to
the largest possible number of the population such food rations
as we can justifiably afford in view of our commitments to the
Reich. Nothing and nobody will divert me from this goal...”
Page 131 of the document book deals with a committee of the Governor
General for supplies for the non-German working population. I ask the
Tribunal to take judicial notice of these statements, and I now turn to
Page 141. This entry also deals with the food situation. I quote the
tenth line from the bottom:
“After examining all possibilities I have now ordered that as
from 1 September of this year, the food situation of the Polish
population of this territory shall also be regulated on a
generous scale. By 1 September of this year we shall introduce,
for the population of this territory, the rations which are
called the ‘Warthegau rations.’”