Some Germans are now trying to prove that they have Jewish blood, and thus qualify for the extra rations allotted by the Allies to victims of persecution, the London Daily Express reports today, quoting travellers returning from Germany.
According to the Express, the price of bogus documents showing that the bearer’s grandmother was Jewish is four cartons of cigarettes. The paper comments editorially: “Could irony go further?”
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