FEAR OF RETRIBUTION
GERMAN CIVILIAN EXODUS FROM POLAND. Reports from Poland reveal that a panic is spreading among German officials stationed in that country and that they are hurriedly sending their families back to Germany. This drive is the result of the organised action of the Polish Directorate of Underground Fighting, which is carrying out a series of death sentences on German officials. Moreover, the Russian offensive approaching the Polish frontiers tends to increase» uneasiness among Germans in Poland. The first to start a full-scale evacuation of his family was the German Governor-General .Frank, whose armoured train was attacked recently by Poles, whilst on its way to Warsaw. Frank decided to send his wife back to Bavaria. The removal of Frank’s belongings, consisting mostly of art treasures pillaged from the Wawel castle in Cracow and from different Polish museums and country residences, is being carried out by the well-known German removal contractor, Karl Schenker. Among other precious objects evacuated to Germany together with Frau Frank is Leonardo Da Vinci’s . valuable picture “Lady in Ermine” looted by Frank from the Czartoryski museum in Cracow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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183FEAR OF RETRIBUTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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