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to administer Poland. According to these
directives, Poland could be administered only by utilizing the country
by means of ruthless exploitation; removal of all supplies — raw
materials, machines, factory installations, et cetera — which
are important for the German war economy; availability of all workers
for work within Germany; reduction of the entire Polish economy to the
absolute minimum necessary for the bare existence of the population;
closing of all institutions, especially technical schools and colleges
in order to prevent the growth of a new Polish intelligentsia. Poland"
— Defendant Frank stated — and this is an exact quotation —
"Poland shall be treated as a colony; the Poles shall be the
slaves of the Greater German World Empire."
I should like also to quote from the last six lines of the English text
of this Exhibit. In the German text it is lines 18 to 23 of Page 30.
Defendant Frank further stated, and I quote:
"By destroying Polish industry its
subsequent reconstruction after the war would become more difficult,
if not impossible, so that Poland would be reduced to its proper
position as an agrarian country which would have to depend upon
Germany for importation of industrial products."
As further proof of the defendant's plan to plunder and despoil the
Government General of Poland, I next offer in evidence Document Number
EC-410, which is Exhibit Number USA-298. In addition to the proof of the
defendant's plans to plunder and despoil the Government General, this
document demonstrates the difference in treatment which the conspirators
planned for the incorporated area of Poland and the Government General.
It is a copy of a directive issued and signed by Defendant Göring
on 19 October 1939 and was likewise found among the captured OKW files.
I quote from lines 1 to 19 on Page 1 of the English text. In the German
text it is all of Page 1 and the first line of Page 2. Defendant Göring's
directive states, and I quote:
"In the meeting of October 13th I
have given detailed instructions for the economical administration of
the occupied territories. I will repeat them here in short:
"1 The task for the economic treatment of the various
administrative regions is different, depending on whether a country
which will be incorporated politically into the German Reich is
involved or whether we deal with the Government General, which in all
probability, will not be made a part of Germany.
"In the first-mentioned territories the reconstruction and
expansion of the economy, the safeguarding of all their, production
facilities and supplies must be aimed at, as well