Dr. Frank agreed to that, and then "3. The Warsaw r evolt of 1944 --
THE PRESIDENT: I must point out to you that you said you were going to be only two hours on five volumes. You have now been over an hour en one volume, and you are reading practically everything in these documents. It isn't at all what the Tribunal has intended. You have been told that you may make short comments showing how the documents are connected with each other and how they are connected with the all of it. That is not what you are doing at all.
DR. SEIDL: Then may I ask the Tribunal to take official notice of number three of the affidavit by von dem Bach-Zelewski? whether the governor general had anything to do with the crushing of that revolt.
THE PRESIDENT: As a matter of fact, does the indictment charge anything in connection with the crushing of the Warsaw revolt in 1944?
DR. SEIDL: There is nothing in the Indictment itself about the part of the governor general in the crushing of that revolt. However; the Soviet prosecution has submitted a telegram of which it is not sure however whether it had been sent but which puts the defendant Dr. Frank in some relation to the Warsaw revolt. But I shall not say anymore in detail about that now.
This is an affidavit by the witness Wilhelm Ernst von Palezieux, from whom the Tribunal has approved an interrogatory. But I was told by the Tribunal that in place of an interrogatory I could submit an affidavit. I quote only the two main paragraphs, and I quote:
"The art treasures stored in the castle in Cracow since the soring of 1943 were under official and legal supervision there. Dr. Frank always referred to these art treasures to me as state property of the General Government. Catalogues of the existing art treasures had already been made before my presence in Poland; the list of the first selection had been printed in book form as a catalogue with descriptions and statement of origin"-
THE PRESIDENT: Now you are reading the affidavit all over again. You are giving us the whole affidavit over again. We don't want that sort of--
MR. SEIDL: Mr. President, I assume so far that in all those cases where a witness does not appear before the Tribunal in person it is admissable that either the interrogatory be read or the affidavit because otherwise the contents of his testimony would not become part of the record and therefore part of the proceedings.
THE PRESIDENT: That rule was in order that the defendants and their counsel should have the document before them in general; that is the reason for reading the documents through the earphones. Put the Tribunal will adjourn now. But I want to tell you that you must shorten your presentation of this documentary evidence. We have already been a good deal more than an hour over one book and we have four more books to deal with, and it doesn't do your case any good to read all these long passages because we have some more weeks of the trial, and it is only necessary for you to rive such connecting statements as make the documents intelligible and to correlate them with the oral evident that is being given.
(The Tribunal adjourned until 24 April 1946 at 1000 hours.)
Tribunal in the matter of: The United States of
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Seidl.
DR. SEIDL: Mr. President, gentlemen of the Tribunal, the last document of Volume 1 was the affidavit of the witness Ernst von Palezieux, and I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of it. The affidavit is given Frank No. 9, and that completes the first volume.
THE PRESIDENT: The first volume, what page?
DR. SEIDL: That was page 92 of the first volume, Exhibit Frank No. 9.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. That is the end of the first volume, isn't it?
DR. SEIDL: Yes, that is the end of the first volume. Volumes II, III, and IV of the document book comprise extracts from Frank's Diary. I do not propose to give numbers to all these extracts individually, but I am asking the Tribunal to receive the whole Diary as Exhibit no. 10, and I propose to quote only a few short extracts, such as pages 1 to 27, Mr. President. They are extracts from the diary which have already been submitted by the Prosecution. brief passages I have tried to prove that these extracts are partly such as do not represent the true and relevant content of the diary. Those are Exhibits USA 173, on page 1 of the document book, USA 223 on page 3, USA 271 on page 8, USA 611 on page 11. On page 14 of the document book there appears to be a misprint. The USA number is not 13, but 613. That is page 14 of the document book.
THE PRESIDENT: It begins on page 13 in my copy, doesn't it?
DR. SEIDL: No, it is on page 14. It is an entry dated the 25th of January 1943.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, the document that I have got and which I think you are referring to is document 2233-PS, USA 613. That is on page 13. I don't think it makes any difference.
DR. SEIDL: In that case, that must be the error by the Translation Department, but at any rate I don't think it is important, I do refer to that quotation. Then, on page 22 is another quotation by the Soviet Prosecution. Page 24 of the document book contains a quotation submitted both by the American and Russian Prosecution.
It is USA 295. am only trying to show that in a number of cases the impression must be a different one, if one either reads the entire speech or at least a larger portion of it.
I then pass on to page 31 of the document book, an entry dated 10 October 1939, in which the defendant, Dr. Frank, is giving instructions regarding the supply of five thousand tons of grain per week to the Reich Economic Ministry -- that is on page 32 of the document book.
On page 34, entry of the 8 March 1940, and I quote the first three lines:
"The Governor General: In close connection with that is the actual governing of Poland. The Fuehrer ordered me to regard theGeneral Government as the home of the Polish people. Accordingly, no Germanization policy of any kind is possible." January, 1940, and I quote the first five lines:
"Dr. Walbaum: (Chief of the Hygiene Department): The status of public health in General Government is satisfactory. Much has already been accomplished in this field. In Warsaw alone 700,000 typhus injections have been given. This is a monstrous total, even for German conditions; it is actually a record." dated 19 February 1940.
"The Governor General is still of the opinion that the Polish law must be properly interpreted. One would have to come to some Polish type of regime and the chief of the Polish legal system would then be the appropriate person for such a task."
THE PRESIDENT: I am afraid there seems to have been some slight difference in the paging and therefore if you would give us carefully and somewhat more slowly the actual date of the document we should be able to find it perhaps for ourselves. The pages do not seem to correspond.
DR. SEIDL: Very well. quote:
"The Governor General expresses in this connection --."
This is on page 51 in my book. This entry is of the 26 February, 1940.THE PRESIDENT: It is on page 40 in our book.
DR. SEIDL: "The Governor General expresses in this connection the wish of Field Marshal General Goering to establish the German administration in such a way that Polish life as such be secured.
Warsaw should not give the impression of a city becoming a subject of Germanization but rather that Warsaw according to the Fuehrer's will, should be one of the cities which within the framework of the constitution intended for Poland should continue to exist as a Polish community organization." of universities and high schools. I quote:
"The Governor General points out in this connection that the universities and highschools have been closed. However, for the duration it would become impossible to prevent the continuation of medical education. The Polish trade school system should also be brought under way again, and that by participation of the city."
Next I quote from my document book on page 56. It is an entry of the 1st of March, 1940.
"The Governor General announces in this connection that the directive had now been issued to leave an open road for Polish development as far as possible within the interests of the German Reich. The present attitude was that the General Government was the home of the Polish people." to the Reich territory. It is on page 60 of my book, entry of 19 September 1940 -- I beg your pardon, 12 September 1940.
THE PRESIDENT: Wait a moment. You mean the first of September, do you?
DR. SEIDL: The 12 of September -- no, I beg your pardon, I should be 12 March, there is a misprint, 12 March, 1940, page 197 of the diary. I quote:
"Governor General, Dr. Frank, emphasizes that, although one could get a sufficient number of workers together by force, after the methods of the slave trade, by using a sufficient number of police and by procuring sufficient means of transportation, the use of propaganda, however, for a number of reasons deserves preference under all the circumstances."
The next quotation is on page 68 in my book; it is an entry of April 23, 1940. I quote the last five lines:
"The Governor General states that the General Government is only pursuing the aim of offering the Polish nation protection in an economic respect alone. He would almost be willing to assume that one can achieve better results with Poles than with autocratic trustees." 1940. In this connection the Governor General states to the President of the Polish Court of Appeals for the district Radom, and I wish to quote the last four lines:
"We do not wish a war of extermination. The protection of the Reich over the Polish people in the German zone means for you the possibility of adhering to and developing the traditions of your people."
I nowcome to page 77 of my document book; it is an entry from the volume of July to September, page 692 and I quote:
"The Governor General referred to the still existing food difficulties in the General Government."
" ...that he ask the General to see that the newly arrived troops with their provisioning and other requirements did not place a burden on the food situation of the General Government. Above all, every kind of confiscation should cease." September, 1940, page 819 of the diary. This entry deals with the establishment of the medical academy which was planned by the Governor General and I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of it. dated October 9, 1940, from the speech of the Governor General on the occasion of the opening of the autumn fair at Radom and it appears on line 5.
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Seidl, the important things for us are the page in the diary and the date. We seem to have the pages in the diary and the dates so if you will tell us them that will be of the greatest help to us.
DR. SEIDL: The date is October 9, 1940, it is page 966-967 of the diary and I quote line six:
"It is clear that if we wish to internationalize we must first Germanize."
THE PRESIDENT: The translation in our book of that sentence is:
"It is clear that we neither want to denationalize nor shall we Germanize."
DR. SEIDL: There must have been an error in the translation.
THE PRESIDENT: In which tanslation, in the one I have just read out?
DR. SEIDL: In the English translation. I shall now quote correctly -
"It is clear that we do not either wish to denationalize nor shall we Germanize. Everything else would be senseless."
THE PRESIDENT: That is what I read. Well, it is right in our book anyhow.
DR. SEIDL: What the Governor General wants to say is that we did not wish to deprive the Poles of their national character and that we did not want to make them into Germans. of the original diary. It refers to a conference with the Reich Labor Minister and I quote part thereof:
"No, the Governor General, had complained to the Fuehrer about the fact that Polish agricultural workers had their wages reduced by fifty percent. Apart from that their wages had been used for a purpose which was contrary to the spirit of this exchange of workers."
The next quotation is dated 29 November, 1940. It is on page 1085 in volume 4, I quote:
"Professor Watzke further declares that at that time, on the part of the office of Reichsleiter Rosenberg, efforts were being made to confiscate the Polish library in Paris. The Department of Schools was of the opinion that the property of that library belonged to the State Library in Warsaw, since 17,000 volumes were already in Warsaw at the time.
"The Governor General ordered that, without delay, the transfer of this Polish library from Paris to Warsaw should be carried out." an economic meeting, of which I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice, without quoting from it.
The next quotation is dated February 25, 1940. It is a labor meeting of the department chiefs and mayors of the district of Radom. I quote from page 13:
"Thereupon the Governor General spoke, and made the following statements." It goes on, on page 13:
"I summarize all the arguments.
"1. The Government General is that part of the occupied Polish territory which is not an integral part of the German Reich.
"2. This territory is, first of all, designated to be the homestead of the Polish people by the Fuehrer. That the Fuehrer told me in Berlin, as well as Field Marshal Goering, who emphasized it again and again, namely, that this territory was not to be Germanized, it was to be regarded as the particular homestead of the Polish people and secured as such; it was to be a territory placed at the disposal of the Polish nation by the German nation, for their reservation." quote the last paragraph:
"And then I want to tell you one thing. The Fuehrer has urged me to secure the self-administration of the Poles as far as possible, and that the Woits and the lower levels of authority of the smaller mayors should remain in the hands of the Poles, which would be in our interest too."
I now pass on to the entry of March 4, 1940. It is the volume, "Meetings, February 1940 to November 1940."
I am referring to page 8:
"The Governor General wishes it considered that if the labor order were to be used properly, one could exercise a slight force. A new decree coming from Berlin, which orders special measures of force and threats of penalties, is turned down by him. Measures which would cause excitement should be avoide Transport of people by force has everything against it."
The last quotation in my document book is on page 143. It is an entry dated January 27, 1941, Volume I, page 115. It is a conference with Secretary of State Dr. Buehler, and the Reich Finance Minister, Count Schwerin von Krosigk, and I quote the last paragraph:
"The efforts of all persons used in the Government General must be thanked for the fact that after extraordinary and extreme difficulties had been overcome there is now an upward development of the economic situation. The Government General, since its entire existence, had carried out the demands of the Reich with great conscientious effort. It would, therefore, be possible to make the request that in the future the Reich would not exceed the demands made on the Government General, which would make the maintenance of a proper order in the Government General possible, and which, after all, in turn, would serve the Reich."
That exhausts Volume II of the document book. I now come to Volume III, and I ask the Tribunal to turn at once to a quotation on page 17 in my book. It is an entry on the occasion of a government meeting of October 18, 1941. I quote the eighth line from the bottom; it is a statement of the Governor General:
"I shall, on one occasion, react to these demands--and these are the demands of the Reich--by saying that our strength has been exhausted and that we can no longer assume responsibility toward the Fuehrer. Any instructions, orders, or threats cannot cause me, or prevent me from saying emphatically "no" to demands which, even under the stress of war-time conditions, are no longer tolerable.
"I will not permit that which you, Mr. Naumann, expressly indicated could happen, namely, by putting large spaces as maneuver grounds at the disposal of the troops, and thus disrupt completely the food situation, which is already utterly insufficient."
The next quotation is on pages 36 and 37 of my document book. It is an entry dated the 16th of January 1942, and the quotation which I am referring to is on pages 65 and 66 of the diary:
"Afterwards, a short discussion takes place in the King's Hall of the Castle." It took place with the Chief of the Ukrainian Committee. I quote:
"The Governor General desires a larger employment of Ukrainians in the administration of the Government General. In all offices in which Poles are employed"-
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Seidl, if you will give us the page in your document bock now, that will be sufficient for the present, because they seem to correspond.
DR. SEIDL: Very well. May I continue, Mr. President?
THE PRESIDENT: I think so, yes.
DR. SEIDL: I then come to page 38 in the document book. This entry deals with a draft originating from Himmler, which has already been mentioned, a draft of a law for communal goods. I quote:
"The Governor General orders the following letter to be sent to Landgerichtsrat Taschner:
"Please inform Reichsminister Dr. Lammers of my opinion as follows, with my signature certified by you: Is am opposed to the law for the treatment of non-German people--Gemeinschaftsfremder--and I request that a date be set, within a short time, for a meeting of the leading officials, in which it will be possible to set forth the principal legal viewpoints which today stillspeak absolutely against the details of this proposal. I shall participate in this meeting myself. In my opinion it is entirely impossible to eliminate the regular courts and to transfer to organs of the police alone such far-reaching competences. The intended Spruchstelle, or court, with the Reichssicherheitshauptamt--RSHA--cannot take the place of a regular court in the mind of the population."
On page 39 I quote the last but one paragraph:
"For that reason I object to that draft in its present form, especially with regard to paragraph 1 of the draft of the decree for its execution." with the question of the denationalization, which had been most emphatically turned down by the Governor General. I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of this document. the works of Chopin. I quote paragraph 2:
"President Dr. Watzke reports that it would be possible to procure in Paris the major part of Chopin's posthumous works for the State Library in Krakow. The Governor General approves of the purchase of the posthumous works of Chopin by the administration of the Government General."
agicultural property, and I quote page 767 of the diary, second paragraph:
"It is lay aim to bring about a recovery of the agricultural in Galicia with all mean even during the war. With that I have kept my promises which I gave one year ago in my proclomation to the population of this territory. Further developments of a useful nature can therefore arise through loyal cooperation of the population with the German authorities. The German administration in this area is willing and has also been given orders to treat the population in a helpful way. It will protect the loyal population of this area with the same decisive and basical firmness, with which it will suppress any attempt of resistance against the order established by the Greater German Reich. For this purpose I have issued an additional decree concerning the duties of the German administration in Galicia for the protection of the individual farmer in the field of food and agriculture." Governor General before the leaders of a Polish delegation, and I quote the last paragraph on page 56:
"I hope that the new harvest will place us in a position to assist the Polish assistance committee. Whatever can be done by us will be done, in order to reduce the suffering. It is also in our interest that the Polish population enjoy working and cooperate. We don't want to exterminate or destroy anybody," had with the plenipotentiary for labor, and I quote the last paragraph on page 919 of the diary:
"I also like to take this opportunity to declare to you our willingness to cooperate, Party Comrade Sauckel, and that we will do everything humanly possible. But I should like to add one request: that the treatment of Polish workers in the Reich is still subject to certain defacing restrictions."
I pass on to page 62, and quote line 10:
"I can assure you, Party Comrade Sauckel, that it would mean a tremendous help with the recruiting of workers if at least part of the defaming restrictions against the Poles in the Reich could be abolished. I believe possibilities exist in this respect."
I now go on to page 66 of the document book. This is the only entry in the diary of the Defendant Dr. Frank which he has signed personally.
It is a memorandum about the development in the Government General after he had been relieved of all his positions in the Party and after he had repeatedly stated that he was resigning and was hoping that now at last his resignation would be accepted. I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of this final survey, dated September 1942. It consists of five pages, pages 66 to 71. I quote the fifth Last line. It is a statement made by the Governor General:
"Art treasures were carefully stored and cleaned, so that approximately 90 percent of all the art treasures of the former Poland in the territory of the Government General could be secured. These art treasures ore entirely the property of the Government General."
I am asking the Tribunal to turn to page 92 of that volume. It is an entry dated the 8th of December, 1942, which was made on the occasion of a meeting of department chiefs and which deals with the supply situation. I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of that entry. about the question of the recruiting of workers and where he most severely condemns all measures of force. on page 108. It is a press conference, and I am asking the Tribunal to turn to page 110, where I shall quote the third paragraph:
"The Governor General sums up the result of the conference and declares that with the participation of the president of the main propaganda department and the press chief of the government all points will be comprised in a regulation to be given to all chief editors of the Polish papers. The directives dealing with foreign national arrairs in the press and cultural field will be compressed into this regulation. The conciliatory spirit of the Reich serves as a guide."
I am then asking the Tribunal to turn to page 127 of the document book. It is a work meeting which took place on the 26th of May, 1943, dealing with food. I quote the sixth line from the bottom:
"We have to keep in mind that the first problem to tackle is the feeding the Polish population, but I want to tell you authoritatively and officially, no matter that may come, I shall introduce with the coming.
rationing period in the Government Cancel, to the largest possible number of the population, these food rations which we can defend with respect to our position toward the Reich. other and nobody will divert me from this goal." the supply of the non-German population. I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of it and to turn to page 141 immediately. This entry, too, deals with the fond situation. I quote the tenth line from the bottom:
"After examining, all possibilities I have now ordered that as of the 1st of September of this year also the Polish population of this territory shall be granted a generous regulation, principally on the food situation. As of September 1st of this year we will introduce for the population of this territory such quotas as are called arthegau quotas." sentences:
"I want to make a statement on this occasion. From the seriousness of the words you can judge hat I have in mind. The men of my government, including myself, are completely aware of the needs of the Polish population in this district. We are not here to exterminate or annihilate them nor to torment a people which has already suffered a hard fate, I hope that we come to satisfactory terms in all matters that sometimes keep us apart. I personally have nothing against the Poles." with young medical students, and I quote page 149, paragraph 2, which is a statement by the Governor General:
"First of all one could say that this first ministry of health is something entirely now. This main department ministry of health will have to deal with important problems. There is among the physicians in this territory" -
Mr. President, I have just discovered that quite possiblyan error has occurred, since these statements on page 172 were not made by the Governor General himself but by the chief of the main department health. At any rate, I shall clarify the question and I shall submit the result to the Tribunal in writing.
I now pass on to page 155 of the document book. It is an entry which appears vital to me. It is dated the 14th of July, 1943, and it deals with the establishment of the secretariat of state for the security system.
THE PRESIDENT: It is not in our book, apparently. We haven't got a pace 155 and we haven't got a date, I think, of the 14th of July.
DR. SEIDL: 14th July, 1943. That must have been omitted. If the Tribunal would approve of this course, then I shall read the sentences in question into the record. There are only three sentences. It points out which disastrous consequences the establishment of the secretariat of state for the security system would have on the authority of the Governor General. A new police and SS government had tried to establish itself against the Governor General, which could only be suppressed with the greatest energy and at the very last moment. entry which deals with general questions of the Polish policy, and I am asking the Tribunal to take judicial notice of that document. by the Governor General. I quote it, page 1154 of the diary, which is an extract from the Governor General's speech:
"Today I have inaugurated the Chopin Museum in Cracow. Under the most difficult circumstances we have saved and brought to Cracow the most valuable remembrance pieces of the greatest Polish musician. I only wanted to say this in order to show you that I want to make a personal effort to put things in order in this country as far as is possible."
The last quotation is on rage 199 of Volume 2 of the docu-
ment book. It is an extract from a speech which the Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler made on the occasion of the introduction of the new SS and Police Leader in Cracow, and the speech was made before the members of the government and the higher 33 and Police Leaders. This is the speech which was referred to by the defendant Doctor Frank when he was examined. I quote the last line:
"The situation is known to all of you, Sixteen millions of foreigners and about two hundred thousand Germans live here. When we add to this the members of the police and Wehrmacht, perhaps three hundred thousand. These sixteen million foreigners, who were augmented in the past by a large number of Jews, but who have now emigrated or have been brought to the East, consist largely of Poles and to a lesser decree of Ukrainians." 200, the entry dated 14 December 1943. It is a speech which the Governor General made before officers of the air force, and I quote the second paragraph:
"Therefore, all should be done to keep the population quiet, peaceful and in order. Nothing should be done which unnecessarily creates unrest among the population. I mention here only one example: It would be wrong if in this territory we try to create large German settlements among this foreign peasant nation during the war. This attempt of mostly forced colonizing will first lead to tremendous unrest among the native peasant population. This in turn, with respect to performance, will bring about a tremendous loss in the harvest results and a falling off of the spring plowing and planting as well as other disadvantages It would also be wrong to take from the population by force the church or every possibility of leading a simple cultural life." graph:
"We must come to a considerate treatment of those territories and their population. To my own pleasure and that of all of our colleagues, I have found that this point of view has prevaile and that all that was formerly said against the alleged friendship with the Poles or against the softness of this kind of view, has shrunk into nothing before the facts."
your pardon; I meant Volume 3. Now I come to Volume 4 of the document book. took place on 25 January 1943 with the SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger. I quote the last paragraph:
"The Governor General stated that he had not been previously informed about the carrying out of the large-scale action to seize antisocial elements. This procedure was in opposition to the Fuehrer's decree of 7 May 1942, according to which the State Secretary for Security must obtain the concurrence of the Governor General before carrying out instructions by the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police. State Secretary Krueger stated that this concerned a secret order which had to be carried out suddenly." that this is merely a single example of many similar conferences and differences of opinion. This is a meeting of the War Economic Staff and the Defense Committee on the 22 September 1943. I hope that the pages tally again
THE PRESIDENT: You said page 24, didn't you?
DR. SEIDL: Page 24, an entry of the 22nd September 1942.
THE PRESIDENT: It looks as though the paging is right. Our book is page 24 at the top, so perhaps you will continue to quote the page for a moment or two. We will see whether it goes on right.
DR. SEIDL: This is an entry dated the 22nd September 1943, a meeting of the War Economic Staff and the Defense Committee. I only quote the first lines:
"In the course of the past few months, in face of most difficult and senseless struggles, I have had to carry through the principle that the Poles should at last be given a sufficient quantity of food.
You all know the foolish attitude of considering the nations conquered by us as inferior, and that at a moment when the labor of these peoples represents one of the most important potentials of cur fight for victory. Through my opposition to this absurdity, which has caused most grievous harm to the German people, I personally, and many men of my government and many of you, have incurred the charge of being friendly towards the Poles or being weak with the Poles. For years now people nave not hesitated to attack my work of governing this area with the foulest arguments of this kind, and behind my tack to hinder the fulfilmen of these tasks. Now it has been proved as clear as day that it is insane to want to reconstruct Europe and at the same time persecut the European nations with such unequalled chicanery." entry dated 20 April 1943. It is a government meeting. I am merely asking the Tribunal to note the last final words of the Governor General's speech, page 38 of the document, page 41 of the diary.
Then I turn to page 39 of the document book. It is a meeting dated 22 July 1943, and I quote from the second paragraph, the tenth line:
"Especially difficult for us in this year was very generally the question of the resettlement. I can give you the good news that the resettling in general has, been discontinued completely for the rest of the war.
"As to the relocating of the industry, we are in full swing, that is now going on. As you know,--I personally put the greatest emphasis on it-we have to bypass this emergency for the Reich and we shall take over complexes of industry into the General Government in the coming months, provided with internationally-important names.
"With this question is to be considered the almost complete change of structure of the General Government forced upon us. As up to now we have always functioned as a country supplying the Reich with laborers, and as a farm and food productive country of Europe; within a very short time we shall become one of the most important industrial territories of Europe. I remind you of names like Krupp, Heinkel, Henschel, whose industries shall be moved into the General Government."
I now ask the Tribunal to turn page 41 of the document book. It is the report which has been mentioned by the witness Doctor Buehler and which he made on the 26th of October 1943. He had stated in connection with this report that the report was dealing with four years of reconstruction in the Government General, and that it had been base on the reliable information from the various chief departments. On pages 42 to 69 of the document book the Tribunal will find the actual report. I do not propose to quote, but I ask the Tribunal to take judicial notice of it. meeting dated the 16th February 1944. I quote the last paragraph of the document book:
"As opposed to this the fact must be established that the completion, the construction, the security of that which today constitutes the importance of this area were only possible at all because against these reflections by the theoreticians of main force, so completely untimely with reference to the war, it was necessary to bring the substance of this area, in both a human and material sense, into the service of the German war struggle in as positive a way as could be imagined."