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Plight of Breslau Jews Termed ‘catastrophic’

December 27, 1939
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Plight of an estimated 13,000 Jews remaining in Breslau, Germany, is described as “catastrophic” in the current issue of “Inside Germany Reports,” published by the Friends of German Freedom.

“Thirteen thousand Jews,” the publication states, “have ten grocers and ten butchers where they can buy. Time of sale for Jews is, in the grocer’s, daily from 10.30 to 1 o’clock, for meat three times a week from 4.30 to 6 o’clock. The Jews have to wait for hours and then usually have to go home without having got anything. The long queues of Jews in front of the grocer shops irritate the people in the streets. The Jews continually fear pogroms. The people say: ‘The Jews, these parasites are at home, whereas our young men are at the front. They are eating up our food. The English and the Jews are to blame for the war.’ It is above all the Nazis who zealously make this kind of propaganda. One can imagine in what situation the Jews are.”

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