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Nazis Execute Dutch Jewish Hostages in Reprisal for Shooting of German Non-com

February 8, 1943
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The execution of ten Dutch hostages, “drawn from Jewish and Communist circles,” in Harlem, in reprisal for the assassination of a German non-commissioned officer, has been announced in Nazi newspapers in Holland, copies of which reached here today. The hostages were not connected with the crime, the German announcement admitted.

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