American military investigators and German police today raided a house in the camp for displaced Jews in Fuerth, a suburb of Nuremberg, looking for a Christian child who disappeared from his home.
The disappearance of the child led to the spreading of rumors among the German population, that he was kidnapped by Jews and slain “for ritual purposes.” A German boy told German police that he saw the missing child in the house of a displaced Jew. German police and U.S. Army officers proceeded to search the house, but found nothing to support the boy’s allegation.
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