“18 March 1944, Speech at the Reichshof.
“Dr. Frank: ‘If I had gone to the Führer and said, “My Führer, I have to report that I have destroyed a further 150,000 Poles,” he would say, “All right, if it was necessary.” ’ ”
This fascist specialist on legal questions annihilated 3 million Jews in the territory under his jurisdiction which fell only temporarily into the hands of the fascist invaders. On this occasion Frank said—I quote his speech at a business meeting of the NSDAP orators in Kraków on 4 March 1944. The Tribunal will find this excerpt on Page 93 of the document book, second paragraph, second column of the text; I begin the quotation of Dr. Frank:
“If there are any woebegone souls today who bemoan the fate of the Jews and say with tears in their eyes, ‘Isn’t it awful what is being done to the Jews,’ we should ask them if they are still of the same opinion now. If we had there 2 million Jews carrying on their activities and opposed to them the few German men in the country today, we would no longer have control of the situation. . . . Jews are a race which must be eradicated. When we catch one of them, it is the end of him.”
I pass on to that part of Frank’s diary. . . .
THE PRESIDENT: Shall we adjourn now?
[A recess was taken.]
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Mr. President, I received information from our staff that the 11 pages which were not incorporated into the English text in your possession were handed to you. Is it true, Sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: May I continue?