JF Ptak Science Books Post 2357
I segregated this pamphlet long ago for its spectacular cover graphics and never read the thing--I did tonight, and as it turns out there's a lot of info in the slim document. First of all it was written in early 1941 by (Sir) Walter Citrine, a very long-time British trade unionist, and he took a pretty close look on the national level with the "ruthless" economic exploitation of Poland (done to "the absolute limit") as well as what was going on in the working Polish nation in regards to the laborers and their families, writing an overview on the Polenerlasse or Polish decrees that woul dregulate the life of the nation
Citrine writes about the agrarianization of Poland, the appropriation of all of Poland's natural resources, as well as the deportation of "a million" men and women to work as slaves in Germany, where they were referred to disingenuously as Zivilarbeiter and forced to wear a fabric patch "P" on a bright field of purple bounded in yellow on the front of their jacket/shirt.
[Image source: Wiki, here.]
The lives of the workers were totally regulated, which I think is information that wasn't yet available to Citrine. There was also a flow of propaganda aimed at separating Germans from Poles in social and especially sexual relations, the later termed a defilement of the German race (Rassenschande) and a highly punishable offense.
There is no mention here or anywhere else in the pamphlet how those numbers break down, and no mention whatsoever of Jewish persecution.
Citrine writes on the destruction of social legislation, of the complete dismemberment of unions, of the workers being forced to provide for their own highly-restricted rations of food, and the adoption of a servant/slave relationship of the country to Germany. Bottom line for Citrine: Poland would be the model of a Nebenland, a stylus for the other European countries that would be conquered, and "used to convert all Europe onto a colony of the Great German Reich".
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