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{{blockquote|The General Government is our work force reservoir for lowgrade work (brick plants, road building, etc.) ... Unconditionally, attention should be paid to the fact that there can be no "Polish masters"; where there are Polish masters, and I do not care how hard this sounds, they must be killed. (...) The Führer must emphasize once again that for Poles there is only one master and he is a German, there can be no two masters beside each other and there is no consent to such, hence all representatives of the Polish intelligentsia are to be killed ... The General Government is a Polish reservation, a great Polish labor camp. — <small>Note of [[Martin Bormann]] from the meeting of Dr. [[Hans Frank]] with [[Adolf Hitler]], Berlin, 2 October 1940.</small><ref>"Man to man...", Rada Ochrony Pamięci Walk i Męczeństwa, Warsaw 2011, p. 11. English version.</ref>}}
German bureaucrats drew up various plans regarding the future of the original population. One called for the deportation of about 20 million Poles to western [[Siberia]], and the Germanisation of 4 to 5 million; although deportation in reality meant many Poles were to be put to death, a small number would be "Germanized", and [[Kidnapping of children for forced Germanization by Nazi Germany|young Poles of desirable qualities would be kidnapped and raised in Germany]].<ref>[https://archive.today/
In 1943, the government selected the [[Zamojskie]] area for further Germanization on account of its fertile black soil, and German colonial settlements were planned. Zamość was initially renamed by the government to ''{{lang|de|Himmlerstadt}}'' ([[Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]] City), which was later changed to ''{{lang|de|Pflugstadt}}'' ([[Plough]] City), both names were not implemented. Most of the Polish population was expelled by the Nazi occupation authorities with documented brutality. Himmler intended the city of [[Lublin]] to have a German population of 20% to 25% by the beginning of 1944, and of 30% to 40% by the following year, at which time Lublin was to be declared a German city and given a German mayor.<ref>Rich, Norman (1974). Hitler's War Aims: the Establishment of the New Order, p. 99. W. W. Norton & Company Inc., New York.</ref>
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==The Holocaust==
{{main|The Holocaust in Poland}}
[[File:WW2-Holocaust-Poland.PNG|thumb|260px|Nazi extermination camps in [[occupied Poland]], marked with black and white skulls. General Government in beige. Death camp at [[Auschwitz]] (lower left) in the neighbouring new German ''Provinz Oberschlesien'']]During the [[Wannsee conference]] on January 20, 1942, the State Secretary of the General Government, ''[[SS-Brigadeführer]]'' [[Josef Bühler]] encouraged [[Reinhard Heydrich|Heydrich]] to implement the "[[Final Solution]]". From his own point of view, as an administrative official, the problems in his district included an overdeveloped black market. He endorsed a remedy in solving the "Jewish question" as fast as possible. An additional point in favor of setting up the extermination facilities in his governorate was that there were no transportation problems there,<ref name="upenn-eichmann">{{Cite web |url=http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/wansee-transcript.html |access-date=2009-01-05 |title=The Wannsee Conference Protocol |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |author=[[Adolf Eichmann]] |others=Dan Rogers (translator) |archive-date=2019-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515091325/http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/wansee-transcript.html |url-status=live }}</ref> since all assets of the disbanded [[Polish State Railways#History|Polish State Railways]] (PKP) were being managed by ''[[Ostbahn (General Government)|Ostbahn]]'', the Kraków-based ''[[Deutsche Reichsbahn]]'' branch of the ''Generaldirektion der Ostbahn'' ("General Directorate of Eastern Railways", '''Gedob'''). This made a [[Holocaust trains|network of death trains]] readily available to the ''[[SS-Totenkopfverbände]]''.<ref name="Wasilewski">{{cite web |url=http://old.pkp.pl/node/178 |title=25 września. Wcielenie kolei polskich na Śląsku, w Wielkopolsce i na Pomorzu do niemieckich kolei państwowych Deutsche Reichsbahn. |publisher=[[Polskie Koleje Państwowe]] PKP |year=2014 |access-date=8 February 2014 |author=Jerzy Wasilewski |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/
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