A Berlin dispatch to the New York Times, reporting that further deportations from Germany to the Lublin “reservation” had been stopped by order of the highest authorities, said:
“This order apparently has been inspired by a protest from officials of the Government General in Poland… The Stettin Jews, on their arrival there in the midst of the almost unprecedented cold spell that prevailed two weeks ago, are said to have found the existing barracks so badly overcrowded and the food and sanitary arrangements so inadequate that the local German officials refused to take responsibility for any further transports that might arrive.”
The dispatch said it had been ascertained that the Stettin deportation was carried out by local officials without consulting Berlin.
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