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Reich, the Führer. Either no answer
is given, or it is apparently edited by the above-mentioned Party
Chancery, which does not consider itself bound by the Concordat made
with the Holy See."
I now
offer in evidence Document Number 3279-PS, Exhibit Number USA-574. This
is an excerpt from Charge Number 17 against the Defendant Hans Frank,
Governor General of Poland, entitled, "Maltreatment and Persecution
of the Catholic Clergy in the Western Provinces," submitted by the
Polish Government under the terms of Article 21 of the
Four-Power-Agreement of August 8, 1945. This gives further figures
indicating the extent of the persecution of priests. I quote:
"The extract attached hereto and
dealing with the 'General Conditions and Results of the Persecution'
is taken. from the text of Charge 17, Page 5, Paragraph IV, of the
Polish Government against the defendants named in the Indictment
before the International Military Tribunal, subject: 'Maltreatment and
Persecution of the Catholic Clergy in the Incorporated Western
Provinces of Poland.' It is a true translation into English of the
original Polish.
"It is submitted herewith to the International Military Tribunal
in accordance with Article 21 of the Charter of the Court."
Signed: "Dr. Tadeusz Cyprian, Polish Deputy Representative on
the United Nations War Crimes Commission in London, signing on behalf
of the Polish Government and of the Main Commission for Investigation
of German War Crimes in Poland, whose seal I hereby attach."
THE PRESIDENT: I don't think you need read such certificates as that.
COL. WHEELER: This is the only one, Sir, that I have. I now read from
this extract:
"General Conditions and Results of
the Persecution:
"11 The general situation of the clergy in the Archdiocese of
Poznan in the beginning of April 1940 is summarized in the following
words of Cardinal Hlond's second report:
"Five priests shot; 27 priests confined in harsh concentration
camps at Stutthof and in other camps; 190 priests in prison or in
concentration camps at Bruczkow, Chludowo, Goruszki, Kazimierz,
Biskupi, Lad, Lubin, and Puszczykowo; 35 priests seriously ill in
consequence of ill-treatment; 122 parishes entirely left without
priests.
"12. In the Diocese of Chelmno, where about 650 priests were
installed before the war, only 3 percent were allowed to stay,