NAZI BARBARISM
PERSECUTION OF POLES MILLIONS HOMELESS (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 6 In a recent interview with the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, the Polish Ambassador in London informed him that millions of Poles were being turned out of their homes at a few hours’ notice and deprived of their possessions. Moreover, with a view to breaking up the population, the Germans had during the last few days beguri to execute many of the better known Polish citizens. The Polish Government had the names of many of the victims, who included the Mayor of Bromberg. Prominent land-owners also had been put into concentration camps.
The Polish Government also had information of the serious ill-treatment of Poles in those parts of Poland which formerly belonged to Austria. Cracow itself had been affected by the transfer of populations from the Rhineland, and a Polish ghetto was being created in that city. All tile professors of the Cracow University had been assembled, arrested and taken to Germany.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 7
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