Gangs posing as auxiliary police are terrorizing the Jewish population of Budapest, it was revealed today by the Budapest radio.
The broadcast reported that on the night of Oct. 17, a group of seven members of the Hungarian anti-Semitic Arrow Cross party herded all Jewish tenants in a Budapest building into the court yard and ordered them to place their valuables in a basket. They claimed that they were auxiliary police operating under instructions of a German captain. A police officer who happened to pass by established that the seven were imposters. However, the gang succeeded in escaping with valuables worth more than 100,000 pengoes in addition to 21,000 pengoes in cash.
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