Every two weeks a shipment of one million is unpacked cruelties which have come to the knowledge of the Polish Government. It says inter alia Never before, and nowhere else has an enemy treated with such ruthlessness the whole of a defenceless population, upon which in cities, even villages there rained bombs, shells, and machinegun bullets.
One would have thought that as soon as the whole country had been subjugated this lust ior inflicting misery would have ceased.
However the contrary has happened.
While the property of the population has become the object of unending robberies and is being seized on the spot from its owners, who together with their families are being evicted from their homes, so the entire population is being driven away from vast and ancient Polish areas, and human life has become the sport of ferocious and bestial hangman.
In all districts of western Poland leading citizens are being shot one after the other, and their names are whispered throughout the horrified country over their silent graves.
Within the space of a single day there were jailed and deported into the interior of Germany all the professors of the ancient university of Cracow.
These are only the most glaring of the acts of violence that are being perpetrated amidst the incessant and general oppression of millions of people.
National Socialist savagery is writing a new and ominous page in the history of German cruelty, which by its slaughter of the helpless outdoes the darkest memories of the past. The Germans will learn once more that by such acts one gains before the eyes of the world not greatness but contempt, not fame but infamy, not victory but defeat, Following as this does upon the reports of the manner in which the Czechs have been
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