GUILTY GERMANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1943, Page 4

GUILTY GERMANS

MUST PAY IN SUFFERING & WORK FOR DEVASTATION OF EUROPE DECLARATION BY POLISH PREMIER The Polish Prime Minister, M. Mikolajczyk, addressing the annual conference of Polish engineers employed in British war industries, outlined the following plan for dealing with Germany:— “The destruction of Germany which is going on at present will continue because the Germans must be given a visible proof that they themselves must pay for murder, terror, robbery and for starting wars. Our nearest and dearest are dying convinced of the righteousness of our cause and convinced that we are fighting for right and justice, while the Germans, dying in bombed areas and at the front, are aware that they are guilty of invasion and robbery and that they are receiving due punishment for their maniacal oppression of the crushed and the innocent. Germans must pay for all this with the destruction of their country in order to fully understand what destruction of other countries means. They must be defeated on their own territory in order, that German militarism should have no moral basis on which to reconstruct its armies for wars of aggression. They must restore ruins in order to understand that whatever they have destroyed with their own hands, must be rebuilt with their own hands. The Germans must restore to Poland the territory stolen from her. They must be disarmed to ensure peace in the future. Criminals must receive exemplary punishment so that in the justice being meted out, all may realise that nobody can murder and seize home, workshop, country, or life of another man with impunity. Today the end of the war already is in sight, but before it. comes vast efforts and sacrifices may yet be required.”