Three hundred Jewish refugees in an internment camp have announced that they are launching a hunger strike in protest against what they call the policy of freeing avowed Nazis while refusing to release pro-British Jews.
In a letter to be published in tomorrow’s Jewish Chronicle, the internees declare that in their camp “people who displayed Hitler’s picture in their rooms as an object of veneration, greet each other with a passionate ‘Heil Hitler’ and threatened the guards with tortures on the day of the invasion” were released.
The letter asked: “Is it a crime to be fanatically pro-British and hate Hitler and Mussolini? Then we are indeed dangerous criminals.”
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