I-71. RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ON THE DEMARCATION LINE

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The war was one week old; Cracow, a city with more than 250,000 inhabitants was under German control. On the following day, September 7, the ss chief Reinhard Heydrich told the commanders of Eicke's special ss task forces, which were about to follow behind the advancing soldiers: 'The Polish ruling class is to be put out of harm's way as far as possible. The lower classes that remain will not get special schools, but will be kept down in one way or another.'

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 6.

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