"A joint declaration by the British, French and Polish Governments asserted tonight that reports from Poland show that Germany is 'bent on destroying lives, property and the cultural and religious existence of the defenseless Polish population.'"The declaration said that:
" 'Wholesale executions, deportations in circumstances of most ruthless barbarity of the Polish population... closing of churches and persecution of religion clearly reveal a policy deliberately aiming at destruction of the Polish nation'..."
Once again a clear warning, though the scale of destruction and details are missing.
At this point the Nazis were still getting "warmed up" -- still focused on decapitating Polish leadership, intelligentsia and Catholic clergy.
Nazi focus had not yet fully shifted to the Jews.
In the end, four million Poles will die, half of them Jews the other half almost entirely Catholic Christians. Indeed, more Christians would have died except the Nazis suddenly discovered they needed Poles to help the fight the Russians.
Sorry, I don't what to give away the whole story! ;-)
Don't worry, it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out how this war is going. Hitler has a tiger by the tale up in Norway. I don't know how he figures to keep his force reinforced and supplied with the Royal Navy guarding the way. We have seen that, aside from an occasional lucky punch by a U-Boat, the German navy is no match for the British. Just consider the Graf Spee incident in December. The Brits have been a little slow to gain traction on the ground in Norway but today's headlines seem to indicate they are getting it going. The allies can now land a great force there and the Germans have to run a gauntlet of Royal Navy guns to keep up. And where do the German reinforcements come from? How about the Siegfried Line? That is just what the French and the BEF are waiting for. When the German front line is weakened the allies will no doubt fill the vacuum with a massive push that may not stop until it reaches Berlin. Hitler will be bounced out of office and can retire to Nuremberg to write his memoirs. The war could be over by fall. Christmas 1940 will be a much gayer affair in Warsaw and the rest of Europe than that of 1939.
Uncle Joe made a similar discovery. He invaded east Poland, assassinated the military officers and sent many of the rest of the military and many civilians to Siberia. http://www.henrypavlovich.com/The-Anders-Army- has an interesting discussion of that bit of history.