Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-02-02
Picture Of Horrors
In German Poland
Panied by ExiIes
Hunger, Fear, Executions
And Destruction Are
Described in Documents
y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 2.-The Polish gov
eminent in exile is piecing together
a story of atrocities In the German
occupied portion " Poland which
it says rival or surpass the most
barbarous treatment of conquered
people in history.
In its series of white ,apers,"
which are being issued per ideally
and are to be assembled in a book
later, the Polish government de-
scribes the land that Germany
seized as one of hunger, stark fear,
wrecked churches and hospitals, and
executions. 1t says deportations of
the populace are conducted with
methodical brutality.
A similar paper was issued last
night by the Polish envoy to Italy
and the Vatican.
Tales of atrocities and suffering
also are reported from that portion
of Poland which fell to Soviet Rus
STA, but the papers deal mostly with
the part held by Germany.
The Poles declare the papers con-
tain only information which has
been carefully investigated and ver-
flied, including an estimate that the
Germans have executed $4,000 Poles
of all classes.
At Bydgoszcz alone, the papers
say. 5000 persons had been shot
down by the close of 1899, three
months after Germany conquered
the country.
AS an example, one paper says, the
Bydgoszcz Mayor, a Mr.. Barrels
zewski, was ordered to clean the
automobile of the Gestapo German
secret police with his tongue. He
protested and was odiously beaten up
and later shot to death"
The paper adds that shortly
after the Germans took Bydoszcz,
5000 men, among them many
priests, were shut up in the cavalry
regiment stables in Gdanska street.
They were so packed that they
had barely room to stand. They re-
manned thus penned for six weeks.
At night the prisoners slept one on
top of another"
Charging that "the bestiality of
the German police and jailers passes
all limits" the paper says that "in
comparison the tortures of the ia
nous Cheka CORNER Russian secret
police appear most humane"
30 Bodies Found in Car.
Speaking of forced mass migra-
tons, another paper says, Recently
train carrying children expelled
from the Poznan region was seen
arriving at Sandomierz in Central
Poland. When at station a car
was opened cit was a cattle carr
80 bodies were found of children
who had died from the cold"
Such mass deportations, the paper
states, 'outdo in their systematic
atrocity even the rapacious raids of
the Tartars."
Those selected for deportation are
given 10 minutes to leave their
homes, and they then are taken
to the railway station, closed in
boxcars and sent to some small
station in Central Poland near War
saw or Lublin," it says.
There the cars are opened and
the unfortunate people are aban-
doned to their fate Those who have
relatives or friends in the district
60 to them for help. Those who
know nobody beg.
1.-THE deportees are recruited not
just among people formerly wealthy,
influential or educated, but also
among even the poorest"
Heavy Rule Acknowledged.
Arthur Greiser, German Governor
of the Poznan district which has
been annexed to Germany, said
Monday he had no intention of
forcing Poles to remove to make
room for repatriated Germans from
the Baltic and elsewhere, but that
several thousand" Poles who insist
ed on going to the so-called Gov
ernor's area not yet annexed to the
Reich were being given facilities for
departure.
Greiser acknowledged that when
he first took over, he ruled with a
heavy hand, because the Poles had
opened the prisons and madhouses.
He contended that the withdraw
Ing Polish Armies had tortured and
killed some 10000 Germans.
One of the Polish papers declares
that at Gdynia, port on the Baltic
Sea, priests are forced to wash the
sidewalks on their hands and knees.
BY the end of November, only 5000
of Gdynia's original Polish popula-
ton of 10000 remained, it says, and
whole streets were empty due to the
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