The Thugs of Europe by Albert Norden

Author:Albert Norden [Norden, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: German American League for Culture
Published: 2012-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Goering and Silesia’s Princes Annex Poland

Poland had its fifth column just like all other countries which Hitler has attacked—with the exception of the Soviet Union. As a matter of fact the fifth column was especially powerful in Poland. Its representative was Colonel Beck, for many years and until the downfall, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. He always advocated collaboration with the Third Reich. But behind him were more powerful men: the big landowners, the Princes Radziwill, Sapieha and Lubomirski, Count Potocki and many other aristocrats.

Radziwill, the real ruler of northeastern Poland with his estate of 1 million hectares (about 5862 square miles) lived in perpetual terror of his Soviet neighbors who had cleaned their own house of big landowners. As president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish parliament he did everything in his power to bring Poland into an anti-Soviet alliance.

His colleague in the Upper House of the Polish parliament was Prince Lubomirski, the man who was appointed regent of Poland by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918. He continually tried to push the Foreign Affairs Committee into closer collaboration with Germany while at the same time fostering hostility against the Soviet Union. His relative, Prince Stanislaw Lubomirski, as first counsel of the Polish Embassy in Berlin, tried to promote a German-Polish alliance against the Soviets.

And finally there were the Sapieha princes, one of whom had been Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short time and later financed the Mackiewicz group which wanted to push the Polish-Soviet frontier still further to the East and which even today, in exile, continues its machinations. His brother Adam, archbishop of Cracow, used the Catholic church for anti-Soviet propaganda.

These princes and barons, of whom even the poorest were landowners to the extent of several thousand square miles, drove the Polish government to complete refusal of the Soviet Union’s proposals of mutual assistance during the Summer of 1939. Their conduct, not disavowed by Chamberlain and Daladier, led among other things to the discontinuance of negotiations between England and France on one side and the Soviet Union on the other side. These Polish aristocrats, to whom their wealth was everything and the welfare of their country nothing, built very strong fortified barriers on the Eastern front against the hated “Reds” but left the Western frontier, where the fascist enemy of Poland was lurking, absolutely undefended. On the first of September, 1939, when Hitler attacked Poland, he drove into an unprotected country.

Not even the pretense of independence has been left to Poland. Like the Jews, the Poles are treated as subhumans or lepers and even the names of their towns were abolished and replaced with the names of German generals and Nazi leaders. Lodz, the largest textile center of the country, is now called Litzmanstadt, after one of the Kaiser’s generals who joined the Nazis in the early days. His son holds the rank of general in the S. A.

And what has become of the industry of Lodz? Of the 3500 textile mills all the smaller ones, which were mostly in Jewish hands, were closed down.

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