The Ministry of Economic Warfare today estimated that 500,000 Jews have been deported by the Nazis from the occupied countries, in addition to the tons of thousands of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia sent to “unknown destinations,” many of whom were massacred en route.
The report of the Ministry said that at least 250,000 have been deported from Rumania, 73,000 from Alsace-Lorraine, 57,000 from Slovakia; more than 40,000 from Holland; more than 50,000 from occupied France and Luxemburg; 20,000 from unoccupied France and 1,000 from Norway. The report emphasized that while these Jews who were experienced technicians were probably sent to forced labor for the German war effort, others were apparently exterminated.
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