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British Church Leader Charges Exile Govt. with Fostering Anti-semitism in Poland

June 8, 1945
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Agents of the Polish Government-in-Exile have been charged with fostering anti-Semitism in Poland by the Dean of Canterbury, the Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, according to a broadcast on the Moscow radic reported by the Office of War Information. The broadcast said that Dr. Johnson made the charge at a press conference in Moscow, at which he also said that in all the time he was in Poland he heard only one shot fired, and that was at a Jew.

(The Lublin radio today appealed to the population to submit by June 20 all information concerning the activities of Paul Hoffmann, who was in charge of the crematerium at the Maidanek concentration camp where more than 1,000,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered. Hoffmann was captured by Polish security police earlier this week.)

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