The deportation from Paris to Poland and Nazi-occupied Russia of the first group of 28,000 Parisian Jews will be completed by August 16, according to a report published today in the Swiss newspaper Schaffhausener Arbeiterszeitung.
The paper reports that freight cars crowded with Jews have been departing from Paris to Nazi-held Eastern territories every day since August 3. As soon as the Nazis complete the deportation of the first 28,000 Jews, more round-ups of Jews in Paris and other parts of occupied France for further deportations will follow, the report states.
Property, confiscated from the deported Jews, includes 298 big estates located in the occupied part of France, according to the Swiss paper. These estates, the Nazis announced, have been sold to “Aryans.” As no names of buyers are given, the Swiss newspaper says that it is assumed that the Jewish estates, especially those with old and richly furnished castles, have been “acquired” by high Nazi officials.
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