The Poles [Hitler “emphasized”] are especially born for low labor… There can be no question of improvement for them. It is necessary to keep the standard of life low in Poland and it must not be permitted to rise… The Poles are lazy and it is necessary to use compulsion to make them work… The Government General [of Poland] should be used by us merely as a source of unskilled labor… Every year the laborers needed by the Reich could be procured from there. As for the Polish priests, they will preach what we want them to preach. If any priest acts differently, we shall make short work of him. The
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