Jews imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps throughout the Reich are not being released under the amnesty pr### claimed yesterday by Premier Goering of Prussia, acting chief of the secret police, which affects five thousand political prisoners.
The amnesty order directed the release of the prisoners “in view of the favorable results of the election, especially in the concentration camps, and on the occasion of Christmas.” Selection of the prisoners to be freed was left to the police inspectors who declared that those arrested for minor offenses would be the first released.
The premier’s order warned the prisoners to be freed that if they engage in anti-Nazi activities, “I will eliminate them ruthlessly and forever.”
Five hundred prisoners in Bavaria were the first to be released under Goering’s proclamation. Not a single one of them, according to word reaching here today, was a Jew.
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