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His Excellency Sir:
Not having received on September 3 at 12 noon, no satisfactory response from the Reich government to the letter I gave to Your Excellency on September 1, at 22 o'clock, I have the honour to inform you, on behalf of my Government, the following :
The Government of the French Republic considers its duty to recall, for the last time, the grave responsibility that the Reich government has taken upon itself by opening hostilities against Poland without a declaration of war and not accepting the proposition of Governments of the French Republic and of its British majesty to suspend any action of attack against Poland and to declare itself ready for an immediate withdrawal of its troops from Polish territory.
The Government of the Republic therefore has the honour of bringing to the attention of the Reich government that it is obliged from today 3 September, at 17 hours, to fulfil the obligations contracted by France with Poland in the Franco-Polish Treaty and that the German Government knows

The perfidious military attack on our land, launched on June 22 by Hitler's Germany, continues.
Despite the heroic resistance of the Red Army, and although the most select enemy divisions and the best Air force units have been torn apart and have found their death on the battlefield, the enemy is still advancing, releasing refreshment forces to the Attack.
Hitler's troops have managed to capture Lithuania, a considerable part of Latvia, the west of White Russia and part of western Ukraine. The fascist Air Force is expanding the scope of its bombing operations and is bombarding Murmanks, Orsha, Mogilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa and Sebastopol. A grave danger looms over our country.

The powers participating in the Conference have agreed:

4. Note that the "Operation Overlord" (which was subsequently landed in Normandy) will be triggered in May 1944, in connection with an operation in the south of France. This last operation shall be undertaken in the proportions permitted by the importance of the landing material. In addition, the Conference notes the statement of Marshal Stalin, according to which Soviet troops will trigger an offensive, almost at the same time, to prevent the transport of German troops from the east Front to the West Front.
5. To agree that the military major states of the three powers must remain in close contact with a view to the imminent operations in Europe. It has been decided, in particular, that the major States should establish for these operations a second plan to mislead the enemy and induce him to fail.
F. D. Roosevelt-J. Stalin-W. Churchill

Auschwitz was the name that the Nazis gave to the small Polish town of Oswiecim where they set up three camps of concentration and extermination. The first was created for prisoners of war in January 1940. When the decision was taken to exterminate the Jews, two new fields were built: Auschwítz II, in Birkenau in 1941, and Auschwitz IlI, in Buna Monowitz, in 1942. The latter was a work camp for ten thousand prisoners that served the synthetic rubber and methanol factories of the IG Farben Industria Company. (El Pais, 27 January 1995.)

The detainee, excessively tired, undernourished, under-protected against the cold, gradually thinned fifteen, twenty, thirty kilos. The weight of a normal man dropped 40 kg. Weights of 30 and 28 kilos could be observed. The individual consumed his fat reserves, his muscles, decalcified himself. It was converted, according to the classical term of the fields, into a Moslem (...). The state of Moslem was characterized by the intensity with which the muscles were melting; It had literally nothing but skin and bone. The whole skeleton was clearly seen advancing slowly, staring, without expression, often anxious. Their ideas, too, arose very slowly. The wretched one did not wash himself, not sewed his buttons. He was stunned and received everything passively. He wasn't trying to fight anymore. He didn't help anybody. He picked up the food from the ground with his spoon (…) ; I looked in the garbage cans, potato skins, cabbage tronchos, and ate them raw and dirty as they were.»

(Destruction of the prisoners of Auschwitz camp described by Professor Robert Waitz. In León Poliakok: Auschwitz, Barcelona, Occident, 1965) 


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