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In the Government General there were relatively few
persons at the outset, who qualified as Germans according to the
conspirators' standards. Hence little would be served by the
introduction of a racial register categorizing persons of German
extraction on the model of the one instituted in the incorporated area;
and to our knowledge, no such racial register was prescribed in the
Government General. Rather, the plan seems to have been (a) to make the
Government General a colony of Germany, which — as Your Honors will
recall from Document EC-344(16), which has been introduced as Exhibit
Number USA-297 — was the objective expressed by Defendant Frank;
and (b) to create so-called "German island settlements" in the
productive farming areas. These island settlements were to be created by
an influx of German persons who faithfully adhered to the principles of
National Socialism.
In this connection I offer in evidence Document Number 910-PS. This is
Exhibit Number USA-310. These are secret notes bearing the the date
line, "Department of the Interior, Kraków, 30 March 1942,"
and they concerned Himmler's statements upon the planned germanization
of the Government General. This document was obtained from the 3rd Army
intelligence center at Freising, Germany; and I now quote from Page 2 of
the English text, from line 3 to the of the report. This appears in the
German text continuing to the end of the report. The document states,
and I quote:
"The Reichsführer SS " —
Himmler — " developed additional trains of ideas to the
effect that, in the first 5-year plan for resettlement after the war,
the new German Territories should first be filled; it is intended
afterwards to provide the Crimea and the Baltic countries with a
German upper class at least. Into the Government General, perhaps,
further German island settlements should be newly transplanted from
European nations. An exact decision respect, however, has not been
issued. In any case, it is wished that at first a heavy colonization
along the San and the Bug be achieved so that the parts of Poland with
alien populations are encircled. Hitherto, it has always been proved
been that this kind of encircling leads most quickly to the desired
nationalization."
In this
same connection, I offer in evidence Document Number 2233(h)-PS. This is
Defendant Frank's diary, 1941, Volume II, Page 317. This is Exhibit
Number USA-311. I quote from the last sentence at the bottom of our Page
3 of the English text of this exhibit. In the German text this passage
appears on Page 317, lines 25 to 28. Defendant Frank stated in this
diary, and I quote: