Once again, let us note it is the Church which takes the lead in exposing and condemning Nazi attrocities in Poland. By this point, at least a dozen clergy were already murdered, and thousands more will die before war's end.
And this NY Times report is not page 5, it's page 1, top of the fold. So who can claim they "didn't know"? Who can say, "the Church was silent" or the "New York Times didn't report it"?
Of couse, Poles then were "only" dying in their thousands, not yet hundreds of thousands & millions. And the focus of Nazi attrocities was not yet just the Jews.
But who besides the Church and some Jewish groups in January 1940 were sounding the alarm and trying to help?
This will be continued and expanded in tomorrow's edition. They devote several pages to reprinting the Cardinal Hlond's report to the Vatican.