Distrusting the presence of Jews in the Soviet-Nazi war zone, Nazi military administration has closed down all Jewish labor camps in the Warsaw district, where some 15,000 Jews were doing compulsory labor in fortifying the region. The Jewish laborers were sent home, according to Gazeta Zydowaka, Jewish organ in Nazi-held Poland.
Earlier reports from Nazi-Poland stated that the Nazi military administration had executed Jewish laborers after they completed work on fortifications along the Nazi-Soviet demarcation line in Lublin and other districts. This was done shortly before Germany declared war against Soviet Russia. The Nazi military engineers, it was reported, advised the shooting of the Jewish workers in order to make certain that the secrets of the fortifications would not be divulged.
Gazeta Zydowska also reports that the Nazi military authorities have forbidden Jews to live in the districts of Grojec, Lowics, Sochaczew, Blonie and in localities west of the Vistull River.
The Voelkischer Beobachter yesterday carried an article appealing to the Polish population to disregard the attitude of the Polish Government-in-exile, “which is ready to sell Poland to Jews and Communists.” At the same time it was learned that the Soviet Government is willing to release the 300,000 Polish war prisoners taken in 1939 and to facilitate their transportation to Egypt and Palestine to join the Polish forces fighting with the Allied army.
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