[_A recess was taken._]
MR. COUNSELLOR RAGINSKY: As a result of the decision of the Tribunal, I
exclude Page 21 from my report and pass on to Page 22. I shall read into
the record an extract from the diary of the Defendant Frank, which was
presented to the Tribunal as Exhibit Number USSR-223 (Document Number
USSR-223). This extract is on Page 45 of the document book. I have in
mind the file which was begun on 1 August 1944 and brought to 14
December 1944, entitled “Diary,” where there is a note which mentions
the contents of a telegram sent by Frank to Reich Minister Lammers. I
read—on 5 August 1944:
“The Governor General sends the following telegram to Reich
Minister Dr. Lammers:
“‘. . . The city of Warsaw is, for the most part, engulfed in
flames. Burning of the houses is the surest way to rob the
insurgents of any shelter. . . .
“‘After this uprising and its suppression, Warsaw will justly be
committed to its deserved fate of being completely destroyed.’”
These documents prove, thus, that the fascist conspirators set for
themselves the aim of razing to the ground the capital of the Polish
State, Warsaw, and that the Defendant Frank played an active part in
this crime.
In all the territories of the U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece, and
Czechoslovakia which they occupied, the German fascist invaders
systematically destroyed inhabited localities according to plan, under
the pretense of fighting the partisans. Punitive expeditions,
detachments, and commandos, specially detailed by the German military
command, burned down and blew up tens of thousands of villages, hamlets,
and other inhabited localities.