The Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet today reports that a German census of the Jewish population in Nazi-occupied France shows that there are still 143,000 Jews residing in Paris, apparently including so-called half-Jews. Some 30,000 of them are children, according to the census. In making public these figures, Nazi officials in Berlin declared that “the Jewish problem in occupied France will soon find its solution.”
Meanwhile, authorities in Vichy yesterday extended the new anti-Semitic laws to the French colonies in the Western Hemisphere. The decrease provides that a Jewish census be taken immediately in French Guiana, which is on the South American mainland and in the French islands off Canada.
Arrests of Jews in Paris continue unabated, the reports from Berlin indicate. The 4,500 Jews kept in Camp Dracy, near Paris, are cut off completely from any contact with the outside world. At the same time, according to German report, Raymond Sohultz, a Nazi official, is now in Paris with the sole mission “of helping the French administration speed up the exclusion of Jews from French life.” The same reports state that the French government in Vichy is definitely contemplating the establishment of Jewish ghettos “to allow the Jews to conduct an undisturbed life of their own.”
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