NAZIS HINT 'PURGE' OF JEWS IN POLAND'Special Report' From Invaded Region Discusses Possible Solution of Problem
GROUP EUROPE'S LARGEST
3,000,000 Population Involved -- 'Removal' From Europe Viewed as Benefit
Berlin, Sept 12 -- "First intimations that a "solution of the Jewish problem" in Poland is on the German-Polish agenda are revealed in a "special report" of the official German News Bureau..."
We should note here, the Nazis attempted a number of interim "solutions to the Jewish problem," before settling, in 1941 on the "Final Solution."
At this particular point, September 1939, most historians suggest it was the Polish leadership -- political, military, intellectuals, Catholic clergy, etc. -- which suffered the most.
Parts of the interim solution sound pretty final to me.
Jews are accused of having plundered Polish towns and villages without regard for the watchfulness of the German soldiers and field police, who the "special report" continues, "caught many of them, inflicting the punishment they deserved." Looting in territory under martial law is punished by death.
Polish Jewish women whose husbands were arrested at the scenes of their alleged plundering are "accused of having endeavored to entice German guards into setting their husbands free."
Enticing German guards is also a capital crime, I imagine.