Speech by Hans Frank, Governor General of the General Government, Poland
if the authority
of the National-Socialist Reich is to be upheld, then it is unacceptable that representatives
of the Reich should be obliged to meet Jews when they enter or leave the house,
and are in this way liable to infection with epidemics. [I] therefore
[intend] to clear the city of Cracow [the seat of the Governor-General of the
General Government] of Jews, as far as at all possible, by November 1, 1940. There
will be a major operation to move the Jews, on the grounds that it is
absolutely intolerable that thousands upon thousands of Jews should go slinking
around and occupy apartments in the city which the Führer has granted the great
honor of becoming the seat of a high Reich Authority...