The need to “prepare for an emergency” in view of the revival of anti-Semitic forces in Europe was stressed here this week-end by Baron Guy De Rothschild, president of the Jewish Consistory of France, addressing a meeting here which was called for the purpose of establishing a British group to support the Jewish Documentation Center in Paris.
The French prosecutor at the Nuremberg war rimes trials relied entirely on material collected by the Jewish Documentation Center, Baron Rothschild said. He pointed out that a systematic campaign is now under way to whitewash the Nazis and to present the horrors they committed–even the existence of death camps–as “Jewish atrocity propaganda.”
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