See Homers Nov 12, 1941 post about murders in Poland. 10K is only a fraction of what is reported by Homer today in the Balkans but still on a scale much larger than occasional reports of the 50 - 100 executed in France as reprisals for dead Germans:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f167/Lisa_Simpson/1941/November/1112/1112-germansg.jpg
For those who remember, I obtained a copy of this Polish Black Book and wrote a quick evaluation on it sometime in June that year (I think it was on the 11th or 12th). In the book is the claim that even at this early point, before the Holocaust had become official policy, the Nazis had already killed 1 million civilians in their invasion and occupation of Poland, 200,000 of those dead being children.
Though my evaluation of the Black Book is that these numbers are somewhat exaggerated, it still shows the scope of the wholesale slaughter that was going on in the newly conquered Nazi territory. And they were really just getting warmed up.
Thanks for the link.
If I could figure out how you do that, I'd look it up myself.
Obviously missed seeing the report at the time, and hadn't realized that Nazi murders of Poland's leaders was reported in the news.
Amazing, and with no fan-fare or comment.
Makes you wonder if other groups were being murdered in large numbers and also not reported on...
