Poland, a Factual Statement that Every American Ought to Read. New York, 1943. Polish Information Center, 151 East 67th Street, NYC; 9”x 6”, 16pp. Printed wrappers. Provenance, Library of Congress, with their rubber stamp on the front cover. VG copy. WorldCat locates only 5 copies. $350
Of particular interest is the section “German Reign of Terror” [reproduced below] (pp 12-15), leading with these numbers of crimes committed by the Germans: To forced labor in Germany (1,000,000 Poles); to the Government General (700,000 Poles); shot and murdered (1,200,000 Poles), starved to death (about 500,000 Poles). “It staggers the imagination to think that every tenth human being in German occupied Poland had already been shot or hanged tortured to death, starved…or deported to Germany.”
There are other stories of mass executions, as well as a short description of Auschwitz: “More than 60,000 Poles have been murdered in the concentration camps of the Government General and the Reich. Oswiecim is the most gruesome on Polish territory. It was set up in July 1940 and consists of ten barracks, each of which is supposed to contain 400 prisoners, but actually houses 1,000 men. Prisoners wear thin cotton uniforms in winter as in summer. They were only given shoes on October 15 and had no caps before December. On arrival they had to fill out answers to 32 questions about their life, family, health, wealth and political activities. Two weeks suffice to break men above 45 years. Younger men lose their vigor and youth within half a year…”
This is the scan of the “German Reign of Terror” section: