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might serve as a center of resistance against their New
Order, they too were to be eliminated.
(c) They planned to deport all able-bodied Polish workers to Germany
for work in the Nazi war machine. This served the twofold purpose of
helping to satisfy the labor requirements of the Nazi war machine and
preventing the propagation of a new generation of Poles. Mr. Dodd has
already produced abundant proof on this topic, and I shall do no more
than refer to it.
(d) They planned to mould all persons in the incorporated area who were
deemed to possess German blood into German subjects who would
religiously adhere to the principles of National Socialism. To that end
the conspirators set up an elaborate racial register. Those who resisted
or refused to co-operate in this program were sent to concentration
camps.
(e) They planned to bring thousands of German subjects into the
incorporated area for purposes of settlement.
(f) And finally, they planned to confiscate the property —
particularly the farms — of the Poles, the Jews, and all dissident
elements. The confiscation of the property of Jews was part of the
conspirators' larger program of extermination of the Jews. Confiscation
likewise served three additional purposes: (1) It provided land for the
new German settlers and enabled the conspirators to reward their
adherents; (2) dispossessed Polish property owners could be shipped to
Germany for work in the production of implements of war; and (3) the
separation of Polish farmers from their wives furthered the plan to
prevent the growth of a new generation of Poles.
We turn now to the specific items of proof.
I first offer in evidence Document Number EC-344 (16), which is Exhibit
Number USA-297. This document is a report of an interview with Defendant
Frank on 3 October 1939 and was found among the files of the OKW, which
were assembled in bulk at the Fechenheim document center. This
particular document was included in a large report prepared in the OKW
by one Captain Varain at the direction of General Thomas, then chief of
the military economic staff of the OKW. I quote from the first 19 lines
of Page 3 of the English text. The German text appears on Page 29, lines
25-36, and Page 30, lines 1-6. The report states, and I quote:
"In the first interview which the
chief of the Central Division and the liaison officer between the
Armament Department Upper East and the Chief Administrative Officer
(subsequently Governor General) had with Reich Minister Frank on 3
October 1939 in Posen, Frank explained the instruction which had been
entrusted to him by the Führer and the economic political
directives according to which he intended