The enslavement of the -Polish population was doubly necessary from the Nazi point of view for not only did they want the workers in Germany bit also they had expelled the population from their properties in Western Poland, to make wav for the settlement of some 200000. Germans brought in from the Baltic countries and Volbynia and Galicia.
Tu Poland itself the workers are at the merey of a clique of Nazi officials and employers who can conscript them. draft them where they will pay them such wages and work them such hours as they like. It is signiócant that the Nazis have given the name.of the "First General Regency of the Third Reich" to Germen-occupied Poland.
Their sim is to add regions in other the verts of the world to those now under and. women. fully, re the centre of attack. their yoke: and in doing so fo reduce the populations to slavery.
A Swiss journalist reported from Berlin that by a decree of Himmler The rade urifons are playing an all Poles working in Germany myst wear a distinctive badge on their clothing. Germans are warned al-important part fiot only in the organ-of MER puta dà the ways to keep Poles at a distance. "A Pole is, and remains a Pole," says this. öt ial expansion an id decree. "Any attempt at familiarity Ernest. Bey: -bf Labour and must be rebuffed. Intimate relations with: Poles cannot be reconciled with the dignity of a German."
Here are some of the typical regulations annlving to forced foreign labour in d To remain indoors between 9 p.m. and 5 am.
Not to use any public conveyance.
Not to visit any German institution of a cultural, ecclesiastical or social character and of course not to
for to visit inns or restaurants éx-dai their own. gent at certain hours when Gefmiatis may not enter.
The Nazi View A German newspaper recently had. sri article on the employment of Polish labour which said "The Polish labourer is not our comrade: he mar. however rest assured that his needs will be satisfied for the sake of the material advantages which we expedt fo obtain from his efforts."
Even in Denmark which has felt the weight of Nazi oppression Tese than any other country, the relation between living costs and wages hac and Danish workers: the country and forced labour; of the Ruin of industry within those count tries except in so far as it is required Susciplion of the population to prot ion population to provide food for Germany to the total disregard of their own needs, Sabotage is rife and martyrdom the
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