The British Red Cross today informed the Agudas Israel Organization here that investigations of the condition of British Jewish war prisoners in Nazi camps has established that, on the whole, they are treated no differently than other captives.
As far as could be ascertained, the Red Cross report stated, the only form of discrimination that is practiced is that Jewish prisoners, mostly Palestinians, are formed into exclusively Jewish labor detachments. These groups, however, are treated the same as other non-Jewish detachments.
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