The Fascist newspaper Popalo D’Alesandria, published in that north Italian city, carries a suggestion that Jews be tattooed on the right cheek with a mark covering one square centimeter of skin. Free Masons, the paper further suggests, should be branded with a mark half at the size of that placed on Jews.
The German Transocean news agency today reports from Buchareat that a Jewish engineer named Wexler, and his wife, have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on charges of conspiracy. They were charged with being the leaders of a group printing and distributing pro-Allied propaganda.
Budapest newspapers reaching here today carry an appeal from the “Committee to Help Jewish Labor Servicemen” for clothing for Jewish labor conscripts returning from the eastern front. The papers report that 2,200 such conscripts arrived back in Hungary this week. It has been reported in the past that approximately 250,000 Jews had been sent to forced labor battalions attached to Hungarian army units in Russia.
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