Faced with an order by the German military authorities in Milan that all Jews be deported from the city, the underground anti-Fascist movement in Milan succeeded in destroying the lists of Jews compiled by the Gestapo, thus delaying the deportation, it was reported here today.
The report received here from the Italian underground movement says that special “combat units” have been organized by the Fascist Party in German-controlled northern Italy to assist the Gestapo in raids on Jews. These units also see that the population complies with the anti-Jewish orders. Although the Nazi controlled Italian press and radio continue to term the Jews “Italy’s Enemy Number One,” the population seems unimpressed by the unabated anti-Jewish propaganda.
German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, in an article today in Das Reich, declares: “Jews apparently believe that they are on the eve of their greatest triumph, but according to German war prisoners who have just returned from England under an exchange arrangement, anti-Semitism is growing daily there despite the pro-Jewish propaganda sponsored by the British Government.”
French anti-Semitic newspapers reaching here today from Paris carry a suggestion that concentration camps for Jews be established near places endangered by Allied air attacks. Au Pilori, a notorious anti-Jewish publication, demands that one Jew in France be shot for every Frenchman killed during Allied air raids.
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