Posted on 01/30/2010 5:49:57 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Nazis Admit ‘Firm’ Polish Policy; Cardinal Sees National ‘Disaster’
Reports Heard in Berlin – 6-7
Prelate Gives Interview – 8
The Text of Cardinal Hlond’s Report to the Vatican on Persecution by the Nazis in Poland – 9-15
Editorials – 16-17
In German Poland
One Way to Save
Capital is Still Wanted
Kansas Day
The Red Army
Frederick and Germany
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f30jan40.htm
Hitler demands Lebensraum
Tuesday, January 30, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Germany... On the 7th anniversary of the Nazi regime, Hitler speaks at the Berlin Sportpalast. He demands Lebensraum (living space) for Germans and ridicules Chamberlain, Churchill and Daladier. He notes that, since “they started the war, ...they will get all the war they want.”
From Berlin... Heydrich orders more expulsions of Jews from the Reich to Lublin in eastern Poland. Meanwhile, Himmler authorizes the deportation of 30,000 gypsies.
In the North Atlantic... German bombers attack shipping off the British coast. Also, the German submarine U-55 attacks a British convoy off Land’s End, sinking 2 ships. U-55 is later damaged by the British sloop Fowey and a Sutherland flying boat. The submarine is forced to scuttle.
In Britain... A national campaign is launched today to utilize almost all of the 120 million tons of household waste that are disposed of every year. Scrap iron and steel as well as waste paper are singled out as being urgently required.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/30.htm
January 30th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: In attacks on Thames-out convoy OA-80G to the west of the English Channel off Ushant Brittany, U-55 (Type VIIB) is destroyed by the joint action of an RAF Sunderland of No.228 Squadron, sloop HMS Fowey destroyer HMS Whitehead and French destroyers Valmy and Guépard at position 48.37N, 07.48W. Both destroyers and aircraft use depth charges. This is the first such successful action. There is one dead and 41 survivors from the U-boat’s crew. The wreck lies about 90 miles southwest of the Isles of Scilly. (Alex Gordon)
RAF Fighter Command: Luftwaffe aircraft attacked shipping off the east coast. One enemy aircraft was destroyed. One merchant ship and several trawlers were sunk.
A national campaign was launched today to utilize almost all of 120 million tons of household waste that are disposed of every year. Scrap iron and steel are urgently needed for conversion into armour plate for guns, ships and tanks. “Old bedsteads, bicycles, fire-irons - we want them all,” said the chairman of the scrap merchants federation. The National Farmers Union is to arrange the collection from farms of the many discarded ploughs, harrows, scythes, drills, milk pails and other rusting implements. Waste paper is urgently needed for pulping to save imports. The paper controller is appealing for people to bundle their newspapers, wrapping paper, cardboard and old letters beside the dustbin. There is also an appeal for kitchen waste to be kept separately from tins and bottles, because it is wanted for pigswill. Even bones are wanted for grinding up as fertilizer.
Corvette HMS Fleur de Lys laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
NORTH SEA: U-15 sunk in the North Sea at Hoofden after being rammed in error by German torpedo boat Iltis. 25 dead (all hands lost). (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: Berlin: Heydrich orders more expulsions of Jews from the Reich to Lublin in eastern Poland. Himmler authorises the deportation of 30,000 Gypsies.
On the seventh anniversary of the Nazi regime, Hitler speaks at the Berlin Sportpalast. He demands Lebensraum (living space) for Germans and ridicules British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, and French Premier Edouard Daladier. He notes that, since “they started the war, ...they will get all the war they want.” (Jack McKillop)
SPAIN: U-25 was refuelled by the German tanker Thalia - first occurrence of this type in a Spanish port since the war began. (Dave Shirlaw)
GIBRALTAR: U.S. freighters SS Examelia, detained since 20 January, and SS Cold Harbor detained since 27 January, are released by British authorities. (Jack McKillop)
For those following the reports coming out of the Warthegau, or the Reichgau Wartheland as it was officially known here’s a little background on it’s head of the civil administration.
Arther Greiser was actually a native of the Posen area and readily related to Hitler in that he too felt the effect of defeat and loss of his home province as a result of World War I. Greiser was a member of the Freikorps and eventually moved on into the Nazi Party itself. He moved his way up politically in the Free City of Danzig where he worked his way up to become second in command to Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster. Despite his benevolent statements in the newspaper article he was somewhat less caring of the “happy” people in the Warthegau as he worked hard to deport many of the non-German citizens to the General Gouvernment controlled by Hans Frank.
Ian Kershaw quotes him as having told his officers on the issue of Germanization of the Warthegau, “The Pole is for us an enemy and I expect from every officer...that he acts accordingly. The Poles must feel that they do not have the right to put themselves on the same level as a people of culture.” (Kershaw, Hitler: 1936-1945, p.251).
Ladoga Karelia: the Soviet offensive on the River Aittojoki ends in failure as Group Talvela holds its ground.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Group Talvela holds its ground on the Aittojoki
In the spirit of “what comes around goes around” the German inhabitants of the Warthegau, which for centuries had been mixed German-Polish ethnicity, will be forcibly deported. As will the Germans from Pomerania, East Prussia and Silesia.
Deportation of entire ethnic populations was a common Stalinist tactic. The Germans got no worse than many other peoples in the USSR. But as an outcome of WW2 in 1945, it was an effective way of insuring that political borders matched ethnic ones, depriving nation-states of a reason to fight each other.
On page 8 there is a mention of a “Polish Green Book” Every heard of that before. I did some looking for it and all I could find was a reference to it in a document from February of 1940 that states they had yet to get ahold of the Polish Green Book or the Finnish White Book. I’d be interested in seeing what is in these if we can find them.
"Nazis Admit ‘Firm’ Polish Policy; Cardinal Sees National ‘Disaster’Reports Heard in Berlin – 6-7"
"BERLIN, Jan 29-- The German Government, it was learned today, has made formal representations to the Vatican against the use of the Vatican radio for broadcasting charges of German persecution and slaughter of priests and civilians in German-occupied Poland.
"Representations were made by the German Ambassador to the Vatican and he took the stand that by broadcasting such charges the Vatican radio participated in enemy propaganda against Germany.
"These representations apparently are part of the German counter-campaign designed to discredit reports gradually seeping through to the outside world regarding the punishment inflicted on the population of Poland and, to some extend also, on the Czech population in the Protectorate in what is termed here as the reorganization of the German 'east room,' conquered by German arms in line with chancellor Hitle3r's book and Germany's 'manifest destiny.' "
If my history books are correct, this is pretty much the last we will hear publicly from the Vatican regarding Nazi atrocities -- for the war's duration. We'll see...
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