This was stated in 1940 when Frank was contemplating the first mass murder of the Polish "intelligentsia", the so-called "AB" action.

In 1944, at the meeting of the agricultural leaders at Zakopane Frank said: "If we win the war, then in my opinion we could make mince-meat of the Poles and Ukrainians and of all those who are idling around the Government-General. If only we keep them in subordination during war-time. Come what may." (USSR-223)

It was not Frank's fault, that as early as in 1944, dreaming to make "mince-meat" of Poles and Ukrainians he was compelled to add: "If we win the war". At this time he couldn't be as emphatic in his utterings as on 2nd August 1943, when at the reception of the Party speakers, in the Royal Palace in Cracow he spoke about the exterminated Polish Jews: "Here we started out with 3,500,000 Jews, now but a few workers remain from this number. All the others, we shall some day say, emigrated." (USSR-223)

Frank himself as well as his counsel tried to affirm that the defendant had known nothing about what was going on at the concentration camps of the General Government. However, in this very "Secret report" addressed to Hitler by Frank, which the defense counsel tried to utilize on behalf of Frank we may find a confirmation of the fact that Frank was well informed about what was happening in the camps. It is said there: "Most of the Polish intellectuals are not susceptible to the influence of the news from Katyn and in answer quote similar atrocities in Auschwitz".

Then Frank cites a highly characteristic passage describing the reaction of the Polish workers to the provoking communications of the Germans about Katyn: "There are concentration camps in Auschwitz and Maidanek where mass murder of the Poles was carried out along chain-production lines", and further "Today, unfortunately, the Polish public opinion and not only the intellectuals, compare Katyn to the mass death rate in the German concentration camps, as well as to the shooting of men, women and even of children, and old people when carrying qut collective punishment in the districts."

After the "secret report" addressed to Hitler there was no other "new course" on Frank's part. On the contrary Frank published his regulation of 2nd October 1943, which the defendant himself termed as "dreadful", when questioned by his counsel. After his "regulation" had been carried into effect many thousands of innocent people became his victims. The number of

executions increased steadily till it amounted to 200 persons executed at a time in Warsaw.

The same thing happened in the streets of all the Polish towns, where the so-called "police courts" carried out executions, as it is said in the text of the regulation itself, immediately following the verdict. The people doomed to die were brought to the place of execution wearing paper clothing, with their lips glued together with sticking-plaster, their mouth stuffed with plaster, bled white in prison. At the state conference held in Cracow on 16th December 1943, where Frank stated with great satisfaction that the executions had "favourable consequences", another question was simultaneously discussed. In the records of this conference it is said: "We must discuss the question whether it is possible to arrange special places of execution, as it has been established that the Polish population gathers at accessible places of execution to collect the earth saturated with blood into vessels which they place in Churches". (USSR-223)

The defense counsel tried to speak here about interminable dissensions of Frank with the police; he had allegedly disagreed with their action. Let us see what kind of dissensions these were. The first "sonder-action" carried out in Poland, namely the AB operation-a physical extermination of several thousands of Polish intellectuals-had not been initiated by the police, but had been initiated by Frank himself. According to the Decree of Hitler of 2nd May 1942, the director of the police was subordinated to the Governor-General. When some dissensions between Frank and the chief of the police did arise, it was Krueger who had to leave his post of police chief, whereas Frank remained GovernorGeneral of Poland. As for the Obergruppenfuehrer Koppe who took the place of Krueger, who else was it but Frank who expressed his thanks to him on 16th December 1943 for shooting the hostages, "his gratitude for his fruitful work" and noted with satisfaction "a great specialist is at the head of the police at the Government-General". It is incomprehensible about what dissensions concerning the policy Counsel Seidl was talking about.

His counsel even tried to represent Frank as "a singularly peaceful antisemite", who entertaining a negative attitude towards the Jewish people never initiated massacres of the Jews or even instigated same. It is incomprehensible in this case how the following words of Frank could be interpreted by the counsel: (USSR-223) "The Jews are a race that should be exterminated. Wherever we catch even one he shall be done away with".

Or his declaration at the government sitting of 12th August 1942, when he said: "That 1,2 million Jews have been condemned by us to starvation is quite comprehensible. It stands to reason

that if these Jews do not die of starvation, this will lead to precipitated active measures directed against the Jews".

The criminal activity of the henchman of the Polish nation led to the extermination of millions of people.

"You see how the state organs are working, you see that they don't hesitate before anything and stand up people by the dozen against the wall". This is the manner in which Frank himself ata conference of the Standartenfuehrers held the 18 March 1942 characterized the bloody regime of terror set up throughout Poland.

"I did not hesitate to declare that for one German killed up to a hundred Poles would be shot"-these words were pronounced by Frank on the 15 January 1944 at a meeting of the political leaders of the NSDAP. (USSR-223)

"Had I gone to the Fuehrer and told him: 'My Fuehrer, I am reporting to you that I have exterminated another 150,000 Poles', he would have said: 'Perfect, if it was indispensable' "-stated on the 18 March 1944 while making a speech at the Reichshof, that very same Frank who now tries to convince the Tribunal that he had some "differences of opinion on matters of principle" with Hitler and Himmler. (USSR-223.)

The declarations that Frank made during the first months of his stay in Poland were a veritable program of murder which were perpetrated by the defendant methodically, ruthlessly, and according to plan. Frank, of course, was fully aware of the fact that should war not bring victory with it, he would have to carry the full responsibility for the crimes committed in Poland as well as for his participation in the Fascist conspiracy.

As early as 1943 Frank spoke about this at a meeting with his accomplices. We must give credit where it is due-as a lawyer he was much more correct in his depiction and formulation of the concepts of a criminal conspiracy than certain lawyers at this trial who, basing themselves on outmoded understandings, endeavour to dispute the foundation for a conspiracy put forward by the prosecution.

It was at this government meeting held in the presence of the police on the 25 January 1943 that the Governor-General of that time declared to "Himmler's hyenas" (USSR-223): "I would like to emphasize one point: we must not squirm when we hear of 17,000 people being shot. These shot people are also victims of war. Let us remember that all of us assembled here, figure on the list of criminals of Mr. Roosevelt. I have the honor of being number one. We have become, so to say, accomplices on a world history scale. It is exactly for this reason that we have to keep together and must share the same general ideas and it would be

simply funny if we started to wash our dirty linen in public by bickering about methods".

This appeal to murder is very far from the "interminable quarrels with the police" which defendant Frank spoke about here. The defendant made a mistake about one thing: he was incorrect in defining his place in the dock. But he was not mistaken about the fundamentals: he took his place in the dock as a "criminal on a world history scale".

FRICK

The history of the development of the Nazi movement in Germany and the numerous crimes of the Hitlerites are indissolubly connected with the name of the defendant Wilhelm Frick.

As Minister of the Interior of the Hitlerite government, Frick participated in the issuing of numerous laws, decrees and other acts directed towards the destruction of democracy in Germany, the persecution of the church, the discrimination against the Jews, etc. In this capacity, the defendant Frick contributed most actively to the creation in Germany of the Hitlerite totalitarian state. During the period of many years, the German secret state police (Gestapo) which was to acquire a gruesome fame, was subordinated to the defendant Frick. The order concerning the extermination of aged people and of the insane was issued in 1940 by no other than the defendant Frick.

In his capacity of Minister of the Interior of Hitlerite Germany, as the witness Gisevius testified to this court, Frick was fully cognizant of the vast system of concentration camps spread throughout the Reich, as well as of the existence in these camps of an inhuman regime. The part played by the defendant Frick in the preparation and the realization of the Hitlerite government's aggressive plans was considerable. He was a member of the State Defense Council as well as Plenipotentiary for General Administration.

All the documents, by which the Hitlerite conspirators legalized the incorporation by Germany of the seized territories, were signed, among others, by the defendant Frick. In his capacity of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, the defendant Frick bears personal responsibility for all the crimes committed on that territory by the Hitlerites.

After the felonious attack of Hitlerite Germany upon the Soviet Union, the defendant Frick's Ministry of the Interior participated most actively in the setting up of the administration in the seized territories of the USSR. The machinery of the German occupational authorities in the East was manned mainly by officials of the Ministry of the Interior.

There is no need to dwell again upon the part played by this

machinery, which was created with the most active cooperation of the defendant Frick, in the extermination, the driving into slavery, and the other inhuman actions carried out against the civilian population of the occupied territories.

Frick bears full and direct responsibility for all these crimes inasmuch as he was an active participant of the Nazi conspiracy.

STREICHER

Notwithstanding the fact that during the war years, the defendant Julius Streicher did not formally hold functions directly connected with the perpetration of murders and mass executions, it is hard to overestimate the crimes committed by this man. Together with Himmler, Kaltenbrunner, Pohl, and those who conceived, constructed and switched into action the gas chambers and "gaswagons"; together with those who personally committed mass "actions", STREICHER must bear responsibility for the most cruel crimes of German Fascism.

The enflaming of national and racial dissension, the cultivation of depraved cruelty and the calling to murder-all this was not only the party function of this man, but also the source of his income. And it is not by accident, that in his greeting to Streicher dated April 1937, and which is already known to the Tribunal, Himmler expressed his high esteem for the merits of "Der Stuermer" and of its publisher. One can consider Streicher as the actual "spiritual father" of those who quartered the children of Treblinka. Had it not been for the Stuermer and its publisher, German Fascism would not have been able to educate at such short notice those mass cadres of murderers who personally put into effect the criminal plans of Hitler and his gang by murdering over 6 million European Jews. Over a period of many years, Streicher spiritually corrupted the children and youth of Germany. The so-called "children's editions" of the Stuermer have been submitted to the Tribunal.

And therefore, together with Baldur von Schirach, Streicher must bear responsibility for the selection of Jewish children from the Lvov ghetto, for target practice by the morally depraved "Hitler-Jugend". It is not by accident, that von Schirach held in so high an esteem Streicher's "historical merits". The fanatical "Nurnberg laws" were only the "beginning of the struggle" for this "judeophobe" (as he called himself) who was also the organizer of the first Jewish pogroms. As the Tribunal can recall, after these laws were issued, Streicher called for the physical extermination of the Jews in Europe and he wrote "This problem will only be solved when world jewery is exterminated".

I will not dwell again, either, on the shameless and mendacious