German newspapers reaching here today announce a new Nazi plan to impose higher taxes on the Jews in Poland. The taxes will be collected monthly and in some cases even weekly.
“The Jews in the ghettos must appreciate the welfare protection which they are enjoying under German supervision,” the Deutsche Finanzblatt writes explaining the new meansure. Special taxes will also have to be paid by Jews for ration cards and for funerals.
French newspapers arriving here today report that the Vichy authorities have issued an order temporarily suspending the transmitting of mail and money orders from the post offices in unoccupied France to Nazi-held Poland. An exception is made for the central post office in Vichy. No reason is given for this measure. More than 8,000 money orders were transmitted from unoccupied France to Poland during 1941.
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