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SECRETS OF THE GERMAN ESPIONAGE SERVICE

Wrecking And Protection

of Wreckage Tools

When describing the various me- | ́paganda Ministry were extremely thods of the German espionage ser- well received in Berlin. They bene- vice, I have mentioned the so-called fited by special railway tickets to "luxury" spies and the mere tools. which tracts and brochures were I have shown how the Gestapo agents added. In return for this hospital- frequent the higher circles and how ity, the Poles welcomed their Ger- their tools accomplish their tasks. man colleagues. The latter, excellent propagandists and informers, were always, as if by chance, provided with cameras. ... This propensity to travel could also be noted in other profes- sions, for instance, among tradesmen

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Another example: A German motor manufacturer was studying the con-.

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Konrad Wrzos

It may be said that the German terror and propaganda, transformed all Germans who are Polish citizens into German agents. It can also be stated that all the Germans who ar- rived in Poland worked for the Ger- | and industrialists. man Government. For instance, the German minority In Poland, fearing the Gestapo agents, voluntarily paid the taxes designed for the mainten- ance of the German anti-Polish or- ganisation. Thus it is that this organisation was financed by funds of Polish origin collected in Poland.

The members of the two great German political groups in Poland, the Deutsche Vereinigung and the Jung Deutsche Partel formed, notwith-struction of a special chassis for the standing their apparent divergencies Folish roads, which, as is well-known,

Almost of views, a powerful block.

are not particularly good. An agree the whole of the German minority, ment was signed between the two now, anti-Polish, has worked in these countries. The German engineers licit organisations, on

cultural or dispatched to Poland travelled over economic pretexts, for pro-Nazi pro- thousands of miles throughout the paganda and military preparatiori.

country, alleging the pretext of tests, when the only thing they had to do was to establish a factory for mounting the cars.

A report from one of my informers reads: "According to instructions re- ceived from Berlin, almost all the Germans resident in Poland were provided with wireless receiving sets, some even with senders, to which reference will be made later on.. The same persons also received pro- paganda literature, brochures, cards, etc. Even in Warsaw, a German club presented German propaganda films

its members."

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In the beginning, the object was to conquer Poland by pacific means-by the spread of ideas, by economic measures organised by a German mission. But five years after the | Non-Aggression Pact between Berlin and Warsaw, this "pacific" conquest was seen to be impossible. Germany's military preparations were complete, the Fuehrer's decision was taken, and the propaganda was conducted with undisguised brutality. At that time, young Germans were sent to pass their holidays in East Prussia, passing through Danzig; they received orders to occupy in advance certain strategic points indispensable to the Germans during the war.

Another of my informers draws attention to a' still more interesting point: "following the exchanges of students between the German minor- ity in Poland and the Germans of Germany, a special school was found- ed to train spies for the war.

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- One must be fair: at all 'motor races organised by the Polish Auto- mobile Club, the German participa- tion, from the point of view of both vehicles and drivers, was extremely important. The cartographers the German General Staff had re- ceived reliable information.

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This also explains the large num- ber of wrecking expeditions on the Polish roads. Here again.. I wish to record certain personal reminiscences.

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At the beginning of the :: German invasion, I was wandering about the country, that is, in the territory just behind the Polish lines. September 7th. I was at Kasimierz, a picturesque village almost imme- in diately outside Warsaw, Early the morning, the diplomats and the Polish officials staying in this local- ity left, some in cars and others in lorries, for the eastern frontier Poland. One of the last to go was the present Foreign Minister of Po--- land, Mr. Zalesk!, with his friend, Mr. Falter, Under-Secretary-of-State for Finance. Mr. Zaleski had a long conversation with me while his car was filling up, a difficult matter at that moment. He gave me his opinion concerning the causes of the Polish } defeat.

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Mr. Zaleski, like the diplomats This is why it can be stated that and numerous other persons, had these international .exchanges of arrived at Kasimierz, thinking that students, desirable as they may be he would be able to stay there for during in other respects, have enabled Ger- | some time. He was roused many to train large numbers of the night. He was warned that the sples and to subject all the young enemy were approaching and that He got up people sent to her territory to inten- he must leave at once. sive propaganda.

in a hurry, and this is how I met this usually well dressed man in somewhat disordered garb, but with all his wellknown presence of mind and

But the German propaganda was addressed not only to young people. For instance, all Polish engineers and pressmen, whose names did not figure on the black list of the Reich Pro-

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By George McManus

Bringing Up Father

YOUR SKIING OUTFIT IS. SCRUMPTIOUS DEAR MINE WILL BE THE TALK OF ST. PAUL-

NO DOUBT-MOTHER- MY HUSBAND. HAS GONE OVER TO SHOW DADDY HIS NEW SKI OUTFIT-YOU MUST SEE IT WHEN HE COMES BACK —

BY GOLLY-T MUST STOP

· READING. THESE GHOST STORIES-T GIVE ME THE

CREEPS

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