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Let us take this occasion to render
justice to the Polish soldier
He fought courageously at many sites.
The lower ranks of the military made desperate efforts;
the middl-rank leadership lacked intelligence; its
upper-echelon leadership was bad beyond criticism.
Its organization was Polish!.
At this moment, around 300.000 Polish soldier
are German prisioners of war.
Nearly 2.000 officers and many Generals share their fate.
I must also mention, however, that this admitted valor
of many Polish units stands in contrast to the dirtiest
deeds perhaps committed throughout the past centuries.
As a soldier in the World War who fought only in the West,
I never had the opportunity to witness such deeds:
the thousands of slaughtered "Volksgenossen";
the brutishly butchered women, girls, and children;
the countless German soldiers and Officers who fell,
wounded, into the hands of the enemy and who were massacred,
bestially mutilated with their eyes gouged out.
And worse yet the Polish Government has openly
admitted this in a radio broadcast.
The Luftwaffe soldiers forced to
parachute were killed in a cowardly fashion.
There were moments when one had to ask oneself: under these
circunstances, should one exercise restrain oneself?
I have not heard whether any of the democratic statesmen it
worth their while to protest against these acts of barbarity.
I have instructed the German Luftwaffe to lead this war
in a humane manner: ie only against fighting units.
The Polish Government and the head of the armed forced
have instructed the civilian population to lie ambush
to fight this war as snipers.
It is most difficult to exercise restrain oneself here,
and I would like to stress on this occasion:
the Democratis states ought not to be so vain as
to believe this state of affairs can continue forever!
A Polish Marshal, who today has
pitifully abandoned his army,
declared at the time that he would hack
Germany and the German Army to pieces.
Simultaneously, the martyrdom of
our Volksgenossen began.
Tens of thousands were abducted, abused
and murdered in a most gruesome manner.
Sadic beasts let themselves go and
allower their perverted instincts to run free.
And the pious democratic world stood
by without batting an eyelid.
I then asked myself: who could have
so deceicev Poland?
Did the Poles truly believe that, in the long run,
the German nation would put un with
this abuse from such a ludicrous state!
To this Germany,
to this German Volksgemeinchaft of all German tribes,
to his Greater German Reich:
SIEG HEIL!. SIEG HEIL!.