German newspapers reaching here today report that 12,000 Jews have been sent from Odessa to concentration camps by the Nazi occupational authorities and that “thousands of Jews are being added daily to this number.”
The same newspapers report that despite the fact that Odessa is occupied by German-Rumanian troops, the population is still offering serious resistance. The resistance, according to the Nazi press is directed from the largest synagogue in Odessa which has been converted into headquarters of the defiant Russians. “All over Odessa Jews are still struggling with German-Rumanian forces. This makes it necessary for the German soldiers to seek out the Jews assiduously,” the German newspapers write.
The reports carried by the Nazi press contradict a Soviet statement issued last week in Moscow that the entire population left Odessa prior to the city’s occupation by the Axis armies.
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