00:00The Germans treated the Poles of the General Government in a terrible fashion and viewed
00:04them as a cheap labor source to be taken advantage of at any occasion.
00:08All opposition was crushed with the utmost harshness.
00:11A reign of terror was instituted, backed by summary police courts, which ordered such
00:16actions as the public shootings of groups of 20 to 200 Poles and the widespread shootings
00:21of hostages.
00:22In 1940, Frank gave an indication of the extent of this reign of terror by his cynical comment
00:28to a newspaper reporter on Konstantin von Neurath's poster, announcing the execution
00:33of the Czech students, when he said,
00:35In Prague, big red posters were put up, on which one could read that seven Czechs had
00:40been shot today.
00:41I said to myself, if I had put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland
00:46would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.
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