00:00After the war, Greiser was transferred to Poland, where he faced trial before the Supreme National
00:06Tribunal in June 1946. He was charged with crimes against the Polish people, including the murder
00:13of hundreds of thousands of civilians, the mass deportation of Poles for forced labor in the
00:18German Reich, robbery and plundering of the Polish state and people, and crimes against peace.
00:24The charges against Greiser also included taking Polish children against the will of their parents
00:29or guardians, forcibly putting them in German families or public orphanages within the Reich,
00:34while severing all contacts with their families and nation by giving them German names.
00:40Greiser's defense that he was only following orders did not hold up, as it was shown that the
00:45other Gauleiters had not followed similar policies. His lawyers also argued that, as the head of the
00:50formerly independent Free City of Danzig, Greiser could not be judged by another country, but the
00:56court rejected this claim.
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