English Translation

Part A: News and Reports (Completed on 24 October 1939) I. THE CRIEG 1) On the raid on Poland The following reports confirm two facts already known: 1. The unimaginable cruelty of the German action and 2. the fact that the action against Poland - contrary to a war against England and France - has been well received in large circles by the German people. (We have repeatedly pointed out this fact already in the last months before the outbreak of war; cf. with issue 6/1939, page A 13, and 7/1939 and page A 7.) Gdansk: With the outbreak of the war the anti-Polish mood has grown in Gdansky. We explain this by the fact that the people did not want the war and the poets blamed for the fact, that it broke out after all. It was also possible to hear sharp anti-Polish sentiments from people who were not even Nazis and who otherwise were quite reasonable to judge.The people of Gdansk were in the first days of the war under the impression of the military actions taken against the Polish state institutions on Danziger ground. The first is the excavation of the main administrative building of the Polish port post office. The Polish postal officials who were in the building were asked to clear the building by telephone. The director of the post office refused. No official left the building. Then IE pulled German military and so-called Gdańsk home with machine guns and flamethrowers in front of the building and began the shooting. The whole quarter, which is located around the building of the post office - it is a part of the old town, a working-class quarter, had to be cleared by the inhabitants. The military set up and shot uninterrupted on the banks of the Radaune on the side of the post office. From the building the fire was returned by the postal officials. The postal officials, whose number I did not