English Translation

.A 5 well-known - there should have been about 150 men armed with rifles and revolvers. The loading or the attack on the Polish post office lasted four days. The German and Polish fire was inconceivable. After four days the rest of the Polish postal officials surrendered. There were still 35 of them alive, some of them already seriously wounded. The military now penetrated the building and arrested the still living prisoners. They also managed to get far over the dead from the building. Among them were civilians, Gdańsk citizens of Polish nationality, who had fled to the building shortly before the outbreak of the war. The surviving 35 officers were taken to the court of the Wie-benkaserne and shot there immediately by SS-teams. The building of the central station, which was known to be also in the Polish administration, was stormed by the German trup- pence on the first day after the outbreak of the war. The building, however, is very difficult to defend and could not be held by them. No one was shot by the superior officials, and military action has also taken place at some smaller stations, but we cannot tell any details about it. The building of the General Commissioner of the Republic of Poland in Gdańsk has also been defended by some officials. Diplomatic officials were sent to Lithuania via East Prussia after their capture. It was bad for the members of the organisations of the Polish minority in Gdansk. They were arrested on the first night and dragged to the barracks and police guards, almost exclusively men, but also some women. On the guards they were inhumanly abused by the SS-teams. There are also said to have been numerous deaths. I have witnessed a group of Poles being brought from the police station in the potter's street in Gdansk to the police headquarters, the SS's main square. All the Poles were thrown down the stairs leading from the guard's room to the street, and they were greeted and beaten on the street by SS people with gum-miknüppeln. They had already been severely abused in the guardroom, because they had blood-stained faces and completely torn clothes. Many of them had to be lifted into the transport car - or rather thrown into the car. When everyone was in the car, SS teams got up and immediately started again, onto the poles with rubber batons