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Nazis Seize Concerns of Jews Held in Camps

May 7, 1933
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Concentration camps for political prisoners are being used by the Nazis as an instrument for getting control of Jewish businesses, it was revealed today. Many Jews have been imprisoned in these camps under false charges, in order to separate them from their concerns, which the Nazis meanwhile manipulate. One camp in Saxony includes over thirty Jewish business men from Chemnitz, who were arrested early in March in the systematic campaign to drive Jews out of the textile industry centered in that city. The latest rules permit prisoners in such camps to receive a fortnightly visit from a relative, a weekly postcard, and visits from the clergy, but these privileges are denied Jewish prisoners, who remain completely isolated.

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