Expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises has spread to unoccupied France in certain cases, the Official Journal revealed today.
A number of enterprises in the occupied zone have branches in the free zone which are “necessary for sound management,” the official organ said, and when the home offices are placed under “temporary managers” by the authorities, the branches are also affected. So far six film enterprises have come under this ruling.
Meanwhile, it was reported that the number of Jewish enterprises in occupied France so far expropriated has reached 1,435.
(Virtual elimination of Jews from any economic activity is foreseen for next month, the New York Herald Tribune reported from Paris, when a new and sweeping anti-Semitic ordinance goes into effect, prohibiting “non-Aryans” from participating in any wholesale or retail business as either employers or employees. Jewish proprietors and investors will be paid for their holdings, but will not be able to reinvest their money in any producing activity.)
“Every Communist Is an Agent of Jewish Capitalism,” is the slogan recommended to French newspapers today by the official bulletin for the press published by the General Commissariat for Information, a Vichy Government body.
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