“The Germans are attempting at all costs to win
over the Polish masses – not the intelligentsia, not the
upper classes, not the wealthy and enlightened
landholders or townspeople, but the masses – the
peasants, the workers, the artisans, etc.

They employ
various methods”.

“They are attempting to play upon the growing
conflicts between the Polish police or other vestiges pf
the Polish civil service and the broad masses of society,
almost always standing ‘on the side of the people’, and
in the end, ‘the Germans, and the Germans alone, will
help the Poles to settle accounts with the Jews’.

Thus the relation of the Germans to the Jews clearly exceeds the strictures of their official ideology and is one of the elements of their internal policy.

They are attempting: 1) to extract as much as they can from the Jews [money, stocks, means of production, workshops]; 2) to cleanse the lands seized by them of
Jews, at the price of Judaizing the Generalgouvernement;
3) to use the Jews as bait to win the sympathy, recognition, and respect of a broad strata (sic!) among the Poles.

‘At last the Germans are solving the Jewish Question in the Generalgouvernement, not so much for themselves as in consideration of the interest of the Polish nation’ –
this is how, according to the German design, the
[Polish] populace ought to understand their behavior.

Much indicates that it is indeed this that they desire.

They do not particularly care in principle about the oppression of Polish Jews in the Generalgouvernement: A
Jew can still buy himself out of wearing an armband or patch if he has a lot of money; he can still go over to the Bolsheviks if he pays; often he can still get a passport if he gives a bribe.

The Germans are not resettling Jews from Zakopane as they had announced, since the Jewish community paid them ransom; they are still not arresting important rabbis or other Jewish personalities when they pay for their freedom; etc, etc.

All of this notwithstanding, the fact is that in the final analysis they will not solve the Jewish Question at all (my emphasis).

Plunder, ‘the psychological outlet of the Master
Race’, and the duping of the Polish populace – those are their real goals.”

“I don’t know how to do this, or even how to
begin, or even who could do it, or on what scale in the
long run, but might it not be possible to create
something along the lines of a common front with the two
weaker partners against the more powerful and deadly
enemy?”