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SECRETS OF THE GERMAN ESPIONAGE SERVICE Second Article - On the Gestapo in Poland

PREPARING THE NAZI INVASION

PREFECT Kowalski then raised the were taught the Polish language, the question of the German bribery geography and the history of Poland. of the weaker elements of the popula- The students were divided into groups, tion. The disintegration of Poland," each of which studied a given sector, he said, "took place in two ways. Ef that for which they would be appoint- forts to corrupt the feebler conscience ed later. This was how, during the afforded no appreciable results. There- war, it was possible to explain how fore, the Germans tried-this time the parachutist saboteurs spoke per- with success-to envenom the internal fect Polish, and knew their country to quarrels. Before the war, there were the point of not being obliged to ask certain groups

and also individuals for directions. They went straight to- who did not realise that they were be- ing influenced by the Gestapo."

A fact that must not be lost sight of is that the German propaganda was carefully concerned with the totali- and tarian and ethnical movement even with the social problems envis- aged from the Nazi viewpoint.

-By-

Konrad Wrzos.

Furthermore, the Germans had in- stalled in Poland several agents who wards the assigned objectives. These posed as Poles; having lived in the saboteurs

country for many years and speaking

were also expert in

the

handling of arms and explosives, and

the language fluently, they noisily in military signals. They were at- proclaimed their patriotic feelings for tached to special auxiliary sections of

pond, their native country as they

said. In reality, these were Germans who were working for the Reich, Some been of them, however, had never engaged in espionage before the war, and even avoided any kind of contact with the Reich and its inhabitants. They unmasked themselves at the be- ginning of hostilities.

German divisions stationed in Poland.

At the moment of the Polish bom- bardments, there were some 10,000 of these men, thoroughly and complete- ly organised in every detail. Some of them had been instructed to pose as Polish refugees; others were to figure as agents of the Polish police. Pre- fect Kowalski even relates that cer Mr. Kowalski tells that one of these tain false agents arrested and brought spies was before the war a reputed before him, stated that they had re- and well-known tradesman in War-ceived their Polish uniforms in Ger- saw. He met him in September in many where the latter had been made; one of the city streets, wearing the when crossing the Polish frontier, they Gestapo uniform. Another, said to be had seized the uniforms of the fron- a Polish banker, served as interpreter tier guards. The object of these sa- between a German officer and Polish boteurs was to create a panic in Po-

land. the best known prisoners.. One of film actors, extremely popular with the Warsaw public, is now working for the Gestapo. This would explain why he had been engaged, a maké films in Germany, for neither his voice

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"The Germans. have succeeded only too well in carrying out this infernal plan, prepared at length and leaving nothing to chance. It is quite certain that they hope to apply the same met- hods to other countries. This is what must be avoided." ..

Continuing his disclosures, Prefect Kowalski read me passages of his re- port on the work of the Gestapo in Poland before the war..

initiate reprisals. against the German minorities; for instance, German fac- tory owners proceeded to the mal- treatment of the Polish workers.

"Among these German agents," continued Mr. Kowalski, "there many industrialists, representatives of important firms, waiters, hairdressers and taxidrivers. In certain cases, they have been clever enough to se- "Some months before the war, the cure official posts. But the prepara- Gestapo undertook a special mission They began to provoke tory work was done in the first place in Poland. by the Reich itself. Special camps the Poles against the Germans so that were set up for the young Germans the Polish police authorities should in Poland, where they were given special training. They passed their holidays in the Free City of Danzig, where, as is well known, traffic was

"I myself noted open provocations. not controlled. These young Germans deposited their Polish passports at the For instance, one of the greatest Ger- German consulate in Danzig, and they man factories, which has two branches, received in exchange German pass-in Poznania and in Pomerania, pu- blished a periodical in which there ports."

of was the question of the return these two Polish provinces to the Reich; this naturally gave rise to cer- tain reactions on the part of the Poles and there were cases in which. Ger- man shopwindows were smashed."

The training took place as follows: the programme included, first, a study of the Nazi doctrinë,' propaganda, es- pionage and also the handling of arms, In this way, some. 500 Polish citizens were instructed during the period of peace and friendship between the two countries. Simultaneously, the Reich trained on its own territory German saboteurs for the purposes of the war; these were hundred per cent Germans,

Nazis aged from 17 to 24 years, who

Mr. Kowalski recognised among those arrested not only Poles, but also the German agents, who attempted to justify their action as designed to de-

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