I pass to the next report, TC-72, Number 54, which becomes GB-52. It is dated the same date, the 26th of August.
“Ministry for Foreign Affairs categorically deny story recounted by Hitler to the French Ambassador that 24 Germans were recently killed at Lodz and eight at Bielsko. The story is without any foundation whatever.”
And lastly, TC-72, Number 55, which becomes GB-53, the report of the next day, the 27th of August.
“So far as I can judge, German allegations of mass ill-treatment of German minority by Polish authorities are gross exaggeration, if not complete falsification.
“2. There is no sign of any loss of control of situation by Polish civil authorities. Warsaw, and so far as I can ascertain, the rest of Poland is still completely calm.
“3. Such allegations are reminiscent of Nazi propaganda methods regarding Czechoslovakia last year.
“4. In any case it is purely and simply deliberate German provocation in accordance with fixed policy that has since March”—since the date when the rest of Czechoslovakia was seized and they were ready to go against Poland—“that has since March exacerbated feeling between the two nationalities. I suppose this has been done with the object: